Lund University · Authentication Profile

Lund Authentication

Authentication

Lund University secures its APIs with none and saml across 2 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

UniversityHigher EducationEducationSwedenEuropeResearchResearch RepositoryPublicationsLibraryOpen MetadataIdentity FederationOAI-PMH

Methods: none, saml Schemes: 2 OAuth flows: API key in:

Security Schemes

none none

swamid-saml-sso saml

Source

Authentication Profile

generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live anonymous probes of every Lund University surface on this profile, 2026-08-30.
summary:
  types:
  - none
  - saml
note: >-
  Lund University's public machine-readable surfaces are entirely anonymous — no key, no
  token, no registration. Everything that is gated is gated by federated institutional
  affiliation (SWAMID SAML), not by an API credential, which is the characteristic access
  model of a university rather than a commercial API provider. There is no developer
  registration flow, no self-service key issuance, and no plan to buy.
schemes:
- name: none
  type: none
  description: >-
    No authentication. Confirmed by anonymous HTTP GET returning 200 with real data on:
    the LUP Search API, both OAI-PMH repositories, both SRU services, both unAPI services,
    the RSS feeds, the bulk export endpoint and the published JSON Schema.
  sources:
  - https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication?q=dna&format=json
  - https://lup.lub.lu.se/oai?verb=Identify
  - https://lup.lub.lu.se/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=dna
  - https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/unapi
  - https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication?q=dna&format=json
  - https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/oai?verb=Identify
- name: swamid-saml-sso
  type: saml
  description: >-
    SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth single sign-on against Lund's own Identity Provider
    (entityID https://idpv4.lu.se/idp/shibboleth, scope lu.se), registered in the Swedish
    national federation SWAMID and interfederated through eduGAIN. This is the gate in
    front of staff and student services — it authenticates people with an institutional
    affiliation, and it is not an API credential a third-party developer can obtain.
  sources:
  - https://idpv4.lu.se/idp/shibboleth
  - https://mds.swamid.se/md/swamid-idp.xml
gated:
- surface: LUCRIS / Research Portal Pure web service
  url: https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/api
  observed_status: 500
  observed_body: '{"timestamp":...,"status":999,"error":"None"}'
  detail: >-
    The Elsevier Pure web service path exists on Lund's portal host but refuses anonymous
    callers with an HTTP 500 carrying Pure's status 999 envelope. Lund documents that LUCRIS
    content can be retrieved via API for institutional reporters and web editors; there is
    no open self-service route to a key, and the contract is Elsevier's in any case.

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