University of Barcelona

aid: university-of-barcelona
name: University of Barcelona
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) is a public research university founded in 1450 in
  Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ranked #165 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UB operates no central developer portal,
  no public API program and no confirmed organization-wide GitHub account, and its main web estate at www.ub.edu sits behind
  a Cloudflare bot challenge that returns HTTP 403 to any automated client. What it does operate is a genuine, machine-readable
  institutional footprint that is easy to miss because none of it is marketed as an API: a SAML 2.0 identity provider published
  through RedIRIS SIR into eduGAIN with the ub.edu attribute scope; an LTI 1.3 Advantage tool platform on its self-hosted
  Moodle at campusvirtual.ub.edu, with a live JWKS and token endpoint; an OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider over 100 journal sets
  at revistes.ub.edu; a DSpace 7.6.6 repository at diposit.ub.edu that was live in June 2026 and returned 503 across every
  probe on 2026-09-01; and a Crossref membership for the university press. Its research-data repository and library discovery
  layer are tenancies on consortium and vendor platforms operated by CSUC and Ex Libris, not UB engineering, and are recorded
  here as relationships rather than as UB contracts.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-barcelona/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Spain
- Catalonia
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- eduGAIN
- LTI
- Learning Management
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
- DSpace
- Research Data
- Library
- Scholarly
- Crossref
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-barcelona:ub-idp-edugain
  name: UB SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN)
  x-operator: federation
  description: The University of Barcelona's own SAML 2.0 identity provider, published as a signed EntityDescriptor through
    RedIRIS SIR — the Spanish academic identity federation — and carried into eduGAIN. entityID https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp,
    IDPSSODescriptor, mdui:DisplayName "Universitat de Barcelona", shibmd:Scope ub.edu, registrationAuthority http://www.rediris.es/.
    SSO and SingleLogout services are hosted for UB at sir.rediris.es/ub/. A federation is shared by definition and the identity
    behind this entry is UB's; this is the institution's strongest machine-readable surface. Confirmed live 2026-09-01 (HTTP
    200, text/xml, 10,980 bytes, validUntil 2026-10-01).
  humanURL: https://technical.edugain.org/entities
  baseURL: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  - RedIRIS
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp
- aid: university-of-barcelona:campusvirtual-moodle
  name: Campus Virtual UB (Moodle) — LTI 1.3 Advantage platform and Web Services
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'UB''s self-hosted Moodle learning platform on the university''s own host. It acts as an LTI 1.3 tool platform:
    the JWKS at /mod/lti/certs.php serves a live RS256 public key set and the LTI Advantage token endpoint at /mod/lti/token.php
    answers an empty request with a well-formed OAuth2 invalid_request error, confirming the service is enabled. The Moodle
    Web Services REST endpoint is also enabled and token-gated, returning an invalidtoken exception rather than a disabled-service
    error. Both are real institution-operated APIs; both require credentials issued by UB, so neither is openly consumable.
    Confirmed live 2026-09-01.'
  humanURL: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/
  baseURL: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/mod/lti/token.php
  tags:
  - LTI
  - Learning Management
  - Moodle
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/mod/lti/certs.php
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/
- aid: university-of-barcelona:revistes-ojs
  name: Revistes Científiques de la UB (OJS) — OAI-PMH 2.0
  x-operator: institution
  description: Open Journal Systems platform self-hosted by UB at revistes.ub.edu, publishing the university's scholarly journals.
    Its OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider answers Identify, ListSets and ListMetadataFormats, advertising repositoryName "Revistes
    Científiques de la Universitat de Barcelona", 100 sets, earliestDatestamp 2011-01-13 and adminEmail revistesub@ub.edu.
    The OJS REST API v1 exists on the same host but returns HTTP 403 api.403.unauthorized without a key. The software is PKP's;
    the deployment, the host and the content are UB's, so no OJS product contract is saved under this institution. Confirmed
    live 2026-09-01.
  humanURL: https://revistes.ub.edu/
  baseURL: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/index/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Scholarly
  - Open Access
  - Journals
  - OJS
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/index/oai?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-barcelona:sso-saml
  name: UB Centralized SSO (Identificació UB, SAML 2.0 / CAS)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Universitat de Barcelona centralized single sign-on providing federated authentication for university web applications,
    on UB's own host. The SAML2 SSOService endpoint is confirmed live (HTTP 200, 2026-09-01); no IdP metadata document is
    exposed at any conventional simpleSAMLphp or Shibboleth path, so the machine-readable descriptor for UB's identity is
    the RedIRIS SIR entry recorded separately above. Integration is restricted to registered institutional applications; this
    is not a public open API.
  humanURL: https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/iub/detallservei/-/recurs/1051544/autenticacio-centralitzada-sso-
  baseURL: https://sso.ub.edu/SAML2/SSOService.php
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Identity
  - CAS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/iub/detallservei/-/recurs/1051544/autenticacio-centralitzada-sso-
- aid: university-of-barcelona:diposit-rest
  name: Dipòsit Digital REST API (DSpace 7)
  x-operator: institution
  description: DSpace 7.6.6 REST API for the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona, UB's institutional repository
    of teaching, research and institutional output, on UB's own host. The API root advertised HAL links for items, collections,
    communities, bitstreams and authentication and returned HTTP 200 on 2026-06-03. On 2026-09-01 the entire diposit.ub.edu
    host returned an Apache "503 Service Unavailable" maintenance page on every probe, over both HTTP and HTTPS and across
    six attempts. The surface is retained because it is genuinely UB's and the outage reads as maintenance rather than retirement,
    but it is DEGRADED and must be re-probed before it is credited. DSpace is open-source software UB hosts itself; no DSpace
    product contract is saved under this institution.
  humanURL: https://diposit.ub.edu/
  baseURL: https://diposit.ub.edu/server/api
  x-status: degraded
  x-status-detail: HTTP 503 on all probes 2026-09-01; HTTP 200 on 2026-06-03.
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Scholarly
  - Library
  - REST
- aid: university-of-barcelona:diposit-oai
  name: Dipòsit Digital OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona, used for harvesting
    into national aggregators and the CRAI discovery layer. The Identify verb returned repository name and OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata
    on 2026-06-03. Returned HTTP 503 on every probe on 2026-09-01 along with the rest of the diposit.ub.edu host. Retained
    as a real UB surface, marked degraded pending re-probe.
  humanURL: https://diposit.ub.edu/
  baseURL: https://diposit.ub.edu/server/oai/request
  x-status: degraded
  x-status-detail: HTTP 503 on all probes 2026-09-01; HTTP 200 on 2026-06-03.
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Scholarly
  - Library
  - Metadata
- aid: university-of-barcelona:cora-rdr-ub
  name: CORA Repositori de Dades de Recerca — Universitat de Barcelona collection
  x-operator: tenant
  description: UB's named research-data collection on CORA RDR, the Dataverse 6.10.1 instance operated by CSUC (Consorci de
    Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) for the Catalan university system. The collection is real and it is UB's — alias UB,
    id 6, name "Universitat de Barcelona", affiliation UB, contact crai-recerca@ub.edu, permissionRoot true — but the Dataverse
    API contract belongs to CSUC and to the Dataverse project, not to UB, so no Dataverse spec is saved here. Recorded as
    the tenant relationship it is. The /api/ paths were reachable at the start of the 2026-09-01 run and then began 302-redirecting
    to a CSUC Google Sites landing page under request rate, which reads as a live 200 if the redirect is followed blindly;
    the human collection URL stayed HTTP 200 throughout.
  humanURL: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataverse/UB
  baseURL: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/api/dataverses/ub
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Dataverse
  - Repository
  - CSUC
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataverse/UB
- aid: university-of-barcelona:cercabib-primo
  name: Cercabib — CRAI library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE, view 34CSUC_UB)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: The CRAI library discovery layer for UB, delivered on Ex Libris Primo VE under the CSUC shared Alma tenancy.
    The UB view is 34CSUC_UB:VU1 and it resolves on a ub.edu hostname, but the platform, the contract and the engineering
    are Ex Libris'. Recorded as UB's tenancy; the Ex Libris API contracts belong in Ex Libris' own repo. Confirmed live 2026-09-01
    (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://cercabib.ub.edu/discovery/search?vid=34CSUC_UB:VU1
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crai.ub.edu/
- aid: university-of-barcelona:crossref-member
  name: Crossref membership — Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona (member 17854)
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'The University of Barcelona press is a Crossref member in its own right: member id 17854, DOI prefixes 10.1344
    and 10.32869, 10,561 registered DOIs at probe time. Crossref DOI registration is one of the `education` regime''s named
    standards and this is a verifiable fact about UB, recorded through the registry''s own API. The Crossref API contract
    is Crossref''s and is not saved under this institution. Confirmed live 2026-09-01 (HTTP 200).'
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/members/prep/17854
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/17854
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Registry
  - Scholarly
  - Open Access
- aid: university-of-barcelona:ror-registration
  name: ROR registration — Universitat de Barcelona (021018s57)
  x-operator: registry
  description: The University of Barcelona's entry in the Research Organization Registry. ROR id https://ror.org/021018s57,
    display name "Universitat de Barcelona", country ES, linking to https://web.ub.edu. Resolves to OpenAlex institution I71999127.
    A registry membership is a fact about the institution, not a contract it operates; the ROR API is ROR's. Confirmed live
    2026-09-01 (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://ror.org/021018s57
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/021018s57
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - Research
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ub.edu/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-barcelona/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataverse/UB
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://cercabib.ub.edu/discovery/search?vid=34CSUC_UB:VU1
- type: Authentication
  url: https://sso.ub.edu/SAML2/SSOService.php
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-barcelona-education-standards.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-barcelona-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-barcelona-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-barcelona-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-barcelona-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-barcelona-context.jsonld
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Real institution-operated machine-readable surfaces were read directly, not inferred: the UB SAML 2.0 IdP metadata
    document in RedIRIS SIR / eduGAIN (200, text/xml, shibmd:Scope ub.edu), the Moodle LTI 1.3 JWKS and Advantage token endpoint
    at campusvirtual.ub.edu (200 / 400-live), and the OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider at revistes.ub.edu answering Identify, ListSets
    (100 sets) and ListMetadataFormats. Three limits qualify the picture and none of them is a reason to call the profile
    thin. First, the central web estate — www.ub.edu, web.ub.edu and the transparency open-data pages — sits behind a Cloudflare
    bot challenge returning HTTP 403 with cf-mitigated: challenge to a full browser User-Agent, so the open-data portal could
    not be read and no OpenData pointer is claimed. Second, the whole diposit.ub.edu host, which carries UB''s DSpace 7.6.6
    REST API and its OAI-PMH endpoint, returned an Apache 503 maintenance page on every probe across the run; both surfaces
    are retained and marked degraded rather than deleted, because a 503 is an outage and not a retirement. Third, UB publishes
    no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or other machine-readable contract anywhere, so no spec is saved and none was generated. The research-data
    repository (CSUC Dataverse) and library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE) are tenancies recorded as relationships, and the
    Crossref and ROR entries are registry memberships — none of their contracts is credited to UB.'
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.rediris.es/sir/ubidp
    status: 200
  - url: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/mod/lti/token.php
    status: 400
  - url: https://campusvirtual.ub.edu/webservice/rest/server.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/index/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/index/oai?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Ausa/api/v1/issues
    status: 403
  - url: https://sso.ub.edu/SAML2/SSOService.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/17854
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/021018s57
    status: 200
  - url: https://cercabib.ub.edu/discovery/search?vid=34CSUC_UB:VU1
    status: 200
  - url: https://dataverse.csuc.cat/dataverse/UB
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ub.edu/
    status: 403
  - url: https://web.ub.edu/en/web/transparencia/open-data
    status: 403
  - url: https://diposit.ub.edu/server/api
    status: 503
  - url: https://diposit.ub.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 503
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=barcelona
    status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com