# University of Bern

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bern/  
**Website:** https://www.unibe.ch/index_eng.html  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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).

## Kin Score — 19.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.1).

| 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**: 31.5 (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)

- **BORIS Portal DSpace REST API** — 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/JS...
- **BORIS Portal OAI-PMH Endpoint** — 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 nam...
- **University Library Data-Mining APIs Guide** — The University of Bern Library publishes curated guidance on Application Programming Interfaces for text and data mining, covering freely accessible and licensed third-party dat...

## Security (2)

- **University Of Bern Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **University Of Bern Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Bern Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Switzerland, Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Library

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