University of Groningen

aid: university-of-groningen
name: University of Groningen
description: 'The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, RUG/UG) is a public research university in Groningen,
  Netherlands, founded in 1614 and ranked #75 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer/API
  footprint is centered on research-output and research-data infrastructure: an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint over
  its Pure CRIS research portal (OpenAIRE CERIF profile), the Elsevier Pure REST web-services API (live but API-key gated),
  and the shared DataverseNL data repository (Dataverse Native REST API) that serves as the UG default repository for research
  data and software. The University does not operate a single unified, self-service public developer portal; most institutional,
  SIS, timetable, and identity APIs are internal or gated. The University also maintains an official GitHub organization publishing
  open-source research-data and education tools.'
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-groningen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Research Data
- Library
- Metadata
- Netherlands
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-groningen:pure-oai-pmh
  name: UG Research Portal OAI-PMH (Pure)
  description: OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint over the University of Groningen research portal, powered by Elsevier
    Pure (CRIS). Exposes research-output and CRIS metadata using the OpenAIRE CERIF profile and standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify,
    ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, GetRecord). Verified live returning a valid OAI-PMH XML response.
  humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/ug-research-portal/?lang=en
  baseURL: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - CRIS
  - Pure
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/ug-research-portal/?lang=en
- aid: university-of-groningen:pure-rest-api
  name: UG Pure Web Services REST API
  description: The Elsevier Pure web-services REST API exposed at the University of Groningen Pure instance, providing programmatic
    access to research information (publications, persons, organisations, projects, datasets). The endpoint is live but requires
    an institution-issued API key (verified returning HTTP 401 Unauthorized without credentials), so access is gated and not
    self-service.
  humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
  baseURL: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research
  - REST
  - CRIS
  - Pure
  - Gated
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-groningen-pure-rest-api.yaml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-groningen-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-groningen-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-groningen-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-groningen:dataversenl-native-api
  name: DataverseNL Native REST API (UG Default Data Repository)
  description: DataverseNL is the shared, DANS-operated Dataverse data repository that the University of Groningen designates
    as its default repository for publishing research data and software. The Dataverse Native REST API provides programmatic
    search, dataset, file, and metadata access across the platform (verified live, Dataverse v6.9). UG datasets are also made
    findable via the UG Research Portal.
  humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/research-data/archive-and-publish/open-data?lang=en
  baseURL: https://dataverse.nl/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - Dataverse
  - REST
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/research-data/archive-and-publish/open-data?lang=en
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-groningen-dataversenl-native-api.yaml
- aid: university-of-groningen:irods-python-api
  name: iBridges / Python API for iRODS
  description: Open-source Python client libraries and tooling for interacting with iRODS research-data-management storage,
    published by the official University of Groningen Centre for Information Technology GitHub organization (iBridges, iBridges-GUI,
    and an Apache WebDAV interface to iRODS). These are source-code SDKs/tools rather than a hosted public API.
  humanURL: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - iRODS
  - Python
  - SDK
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rug.nl/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rijksuniversiteit-groningen/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/univgroningen
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-groningen-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-groningen-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-groningen-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com