Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam
name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
description: 'Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) is a public research university in the Netherlands, ranked #221
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most universities, VU Amsterdam does not operate a centralized public developer
  portal. Its programmatic footprint is concentrated in research-infrastructure systems: the VU Research Portal (research.vu.nl),
  an Elsevier Pure instance that exposes a live OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint and a Pure REST web service, and research data
  published through DataverseNL. The University Library maintains an active public GitHub organization (ubvu) of open-science
  tooling. Most teaching, student-information, and identity systems are internal and not publicly documented.'
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/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Netherlands
- Research
- Open Data
- Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:research-portal-oai
  name: VU Research Portal OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository, served by the institution''s
    Elsevier Pure research information system at research.vu.nl. Confirmed live: an Identify request returns the repository
    name "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository" with admin contact pure.ub@vu.nl. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify,
    ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, etc.) for harvesting publications, persons, organizations, and projects.'
  humanURL: https://research.vu.nl/
  baseURL: https://research.vu.nl/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Data
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/en_US/data-sources-and-integrations/what-is-the-oai-base-url
- aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:pure-web-service
  name: VU Research Portal Pure Web Service (REST)
  description: The Elsevier Pure REST web service for the VU Research Portal. The base path (research.vu.nl/ws/api) responds
    (HTTP 302 redirect), indicating the service is present but gated/authenticated. Pure exposes content types such as research-outputs,
    persons, organisations, and projects via versioned endpoints (for example /ws/api/524/research-outputs). Access typically
    requires an API key issued by the institution; not a fully open public API.
  humanURL: https://research.vu.nl/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - REST
  - Pure
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/web-service/harvesting-content-from-the-pure-web-services-changes
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/web-service/harvesting-content-from-the-pure-web-services-changes
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-pure-web-service.yaml
- aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:dataverse-nl
  name: VU Amsterdam research data on DataverseNL
  description: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam publishes and shares research datasets through DataverseNL, the national Dataverse
    repository service. The Dataverse software exposes a documented Native and Search REST API for programmatic access to
    dataverses, datasets, and files. VU's collection is hosted at dataverse.nl/dataverse/vuamsterdam (HTTP 200 confirmed).
  humanURL: https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/vuamsterdam
  baseURL: https://dataverse.nl/api
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Dataverse
  - Open Data
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://vu.nl/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Vrije-Universiteit-Amsterdam
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ubvu
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/VUamsterdam
- type: Plans
  url: plans/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com