# Université libre de Bruxelles

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ulb/  
**Website:** https://www.ulb.be/en  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a major French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium, ranked #230 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint is centered on DI-fusion, the university's institutional research repository, which exposes a documented HTTP export API for scholar and group publication lists, a search interface, RSS feeds, and an OAI-PMH harvesting service for metadata. ULB also maintains an official GitHub organization for departmental and research code. Beyond these, most ULB systems (student/SIS portals, library discovery, SSO) are gated and not publicly documented as APIs.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **DI-fusion Scholar Export API** — Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a given ULB scholar (identified by matricule or DAI). Supports output formats including APA, BibTeX, RIS, CSV, xml-...
- **DI-fusion Group Export API** — Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a group of ULB scholars, defined either by a valid group ID or a list of scholar IDs. Shares output formats and opt...
- **DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service** — ULB's DI-fusion institutional repository documents an OAI-PMH harvesting service allowing third parties to harvest metadata for non-profit purposes (provided the OAI identifier ...

## Security (1)

- **Ulb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ulb Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Belgium

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ulb/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.