University of Bern

aid: university-of-bern
name: University of Bern
description: 'The University of Bern (Universität Bern), founded in 1834, is a comprehensive public research university in
  the Swiss capital with around 16,000 students across eight faculties, ranked #91 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
  Its public, machine-readable footprint centers on BORIS Portal, the institutional repository and research information system,
  which runs DSpace 7.6.1 and exposes both a REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint. The University Library also publishes guidance
  on data-mining APIs and maintains open-source tools on GitHub. There is no single unified, self-service developer portal;
  administrative, course, and identity systems are gated behind institutional affiliation and Swiss federated identity (SWITCH
  edu-ID / Shibboleth).'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bern/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Switzerland
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-bern:boris-rest
  name: BORIS Portal DSpace REST API
  description: BORIS Portal is the institutional repository and research information system of the University of Bern, running
    DSpace 7.6.1 with the DSpace-CRIS extension. Its REST API (HAL/JSON) exposes communities, collections, items, bitstreams,
    and research-entity metadata for publications, research data, projects, and researchers. Confirmed live returning HTTP
    200.
  humanURL: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/
  baseURL: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/api
- aid: university-of-bern:boris-oai
  name: BORIS Portal OAI-PMH Endpoint
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for BORIS Portal, allowing metadata harvesting of the University of Bern's
    research outputs. Confirmed live (verb=Identify returns repository name "BORIS Portal", protocol version 2.0, earliest
    datestamp 2021-08-26).
  humanURL: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html
  baseURL: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Harvesting
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/oai/request
- aid: university-of-bern:library-tdm-apis
  name: University Library Data-Mining APIs Guide
  description: The University of Bern Library publishes curated guidance on Application Programming Interfaces for text and
    data mining, covering freely accessible and licensed third-party data services (OpenAlex, CrossRef, OAI-PMH, IIIF, SRU
    and others). This is documentation/guidance maintained by the library rather than a University-of-Bern-operated API; access
    to licensed sources may require an individual API key and institutional affiliation.
  humanURL: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/digital_scholarship/apis/index_eng.html
  tags:
  - Library
  - Documentation
  - Text and Data Mining
  - OAI-PMH
  - IIIF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/digital_scholarship/apis/index_eng.html
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/id-unibe-ch
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ub-unibe-ch
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-bern/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-bern-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-bern-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-bern-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com