# Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/ **Website:** https://vu.nl/en **APIs profiled:** 28 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. ## Kin Score — 35.4 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.4). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 58.6 | | Governance | 9.8 | | Contract Governance | 9.8 | | Operational Transparency | 26.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 | | Commercial Clarity | 28.9 | | Access Clarity | 28.9 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (28) - **VU Research Portal OAI-PMH** — 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... - **VU Amsterdam research data on DataverseNL** — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam publishes and shares research datasets through DataverseNL, the national Dataverse repository service. The Dataverse software exposes a documented N... - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam activity API** — The activity API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 38 operation(s) for activity. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam application API** — The application API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 36 operation(s) for application. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam authorCollaboration API** — The authorCollaboration API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 9 operation(s) for authorcollaboration. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam award API** — The award API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 35 operation(s) for award. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam classificationScheme API** — The classificationScheme API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 7 operation(s) for classificationscheme. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam concept API** — The concept API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 4 operation(s) for concept. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam course API** — The course API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 27 operation(s) for course. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam dataSet API** — The dataSet API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 29 operation(s) for dataset. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam equipment API** — The equipment API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 26 operation(s) for equipment. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam event API** — The event API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 21 operation(s) for event. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam externalOrganization API** — The externalOrganization API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 29 operation(s) for externalorganization. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam externalPerson API** — The externalPerson API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 22 operation(s) for externalperson. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam fundingOpportunity API** — The fundingOpportunity API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 21 operation(s) for fundingopportunity. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam journal API** — The journal API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 22 operation(s) for journal. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam keywordGroupConfiguration API** — The keywordGroupConfiguration API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 7 operation(s) for keywordgroupconfiguration. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam organization API** — The organization API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 33 operation(s) for organization. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam person API** — The person API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 57 operation(s) for person. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam pressMedia API** — The pressMedia API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 24 operation(s) for pressmedia. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam prize API** — The prize API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 28 operation(s) for prize. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam project API** — The project API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 33 operation(s) for project. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam publisher API** — The publisher API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 18 operation(s) for publisher. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researchOutput API** — The researchOutput API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 66 operation(s) for researchoutput. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam role API** — The role API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 2 operation(s) for role. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam studentThesis API** — The studentThesis API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 26 operation(s) for studentthesis. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam thesaurus API** — The thesaurus API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 5 operation(s) for thesaurus. - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam user API** — The user API from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — 7 operation(s) for user. ## Agentic access (1) - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Agentic Access** — 738 operations · 206 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop ## Security (2) - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Plans Pricing** ## Tags Education, Higher Education, University, Netherlands, Research, Open Data, Repository --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.