University of Alberta

aid: university-of-alberta
name: University of Alberta
description: 'The University of Alberta is a public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, ranked #67 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer/API footprint is modest and decentralized: the central
  api.ualberta.ca site is a placeholder noting that the institution is "currently working to improve the way data is cataloged,
  shared, and governed," with no self-service developer portal yet. The strongest confirmed programmatic access is research
  data via the Borealis (Canadian Dataverse) repository, which exposes the University of Alberta research data collection
  through a REST Native/Search API and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint. The University of Alberta Library also maintains an active
  open-source GitHub organization (ualbertalib). Course catalogue and Bear Tracks remain web-only with no official public
  API.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-alberta/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Data
- Library
- Canada
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-alberta:borealis-dataverse
  name: University of Alberta Research Data (Borealis Dataverse) API
  description: The University of Alberta research data collection is hosted on Borealis, the Canadian Dataverse Repository
    (operated by Scholars Portal / Ontario Council of University Libraries). The underlying Dataverse software exposes a REST-based
    Native API and a Search API supporting the same search, sort, and faceting operations as the web interface. The University
    of Alberta collection (subtree "ualberta") and its many sub-dataverses are publicly queryable. API tokens (X-Dataverse-key
    header) are required only for account-scoped or write operations; public searching is open.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/ualberta
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Dataverse
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
    title: Native API Guide
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/search.html
    title: Search API Guide
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/getting-started.html
    title: API Token (X-Dataverse-key) for scoped/write operations
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-alberta-borealis-dataverse.yaml
    title: Scoped OpenAPI 3.0 (public Search and Info operations)
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-alberta-search-item-schema.json
    title: JSON Schema for Borealis search result item
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-alberta-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-alberta-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-alberta-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-alberta:borealis-oai-pmh
  name: University of Alberta Borealis OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
  description: Published University of Alberta collections and datasets on Borealis are harvestable via the Open Archives
    Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), allowing other repositories and discovery systems to harvest dataset
    metadata. The Identify verb resolves live at the Borealis OAI endpoint.
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/admin/discoverability.html
- aid: university-of-alberta:library-open-source
  name: University of Alberta Library Open Source (GitHub)
  description: The University of Alberta Library publishes open-source code through its GitHub organization (ualbertalib),
    including tools that interact with repository and digital-asset platform APIs (for example DSpace API tooling and AVP
    Aviary API interaction scripts). This is source code and tooling rather than a single hosted public API, but it documents
    the library's programmatic integrations.
  humanURL: https://github.com/ualbertalib
  tags:
  - Library
  - Open Source
  - Repository
  - Tooling
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.library.ualberta.ca/about/open-data
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ualbertalib
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ualberta.ca/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.ualberta.ca/
  title: Placeholder / pre-launch API site
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ualbertalib
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-alberta/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-alberta-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-alberta-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-alberta-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com