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Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU

SRU 1.1 search/retrieve service over the Academic Bibliography, driven by Contextual Query Language. Seventy-eight indexes are documented with their supported relations and sortability, from abstract and affiliation through JCR impact-factor deciles to VABB approval status. The operator states the caveats plainly - scan and explain are unsupported, result sets are unsupported, only the default CQL context set is available.

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Ghent University Academic Bibliography SRU is one of 12 APIs that Ghent University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include SRU, CQL, Research, Publications, and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 16 operations across 16 paths, organized into 7 resource areas, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-09-01.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://biblio.ugent.be.

16 operations 16 paths 2 schemas 16 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2026-09-01
Base URL
https://biblio.ugent.be/sru
Contact
Ghent University Library
License
Open Database License (ODbL)
Terms of Service
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Resource Areas
7

Paths & Operations 16

Across 16 paths, the API surfaces 16 operations — 16 GET. They span 7 resource areas: Search, Export, OAI-PMH, SRU, unAPI, Feeds, Dumps. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Search 2

REST search over publications and datasets.

GET
/publication
Search publications and datasets
searchPublications 6 params → 200
GET
/siteindex.xml
Sitemap index listing all records
siteIndex → 200
Export 7

Per-record and result-set exports in bibliographic formats.

GET
/publication/{id}
Retrieve one publication in a chosen format
getPublication 2 params → 200
GET
/publication/export
Export a result set (max 10,000 records)
exportPublications 3 params → 200
GET
/person/{ugentId}/publication/export
Export one person's publications
exportPersonPublications 2 params → 200
GET
/group/{ugentIds}/publication/export
Export publications for a comma-separated group of people
exportGroupPublications 2 params → 200
GET
/organization/{id}/publication/export
Export publications of an organizational unit
exportOrganizationPublications 2 params → 200
GET
/organization/{id}/{year}/publication/export
Export publications of an organizational unit for one year
exportOrganizationYearPublications 3 params → 200
GET
/project/{id}/publication/export
Export publications attached to a research project
exportProjectPublications 2 params → 200
OAI-PMH 1

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting.

GET
/oai
OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint
oaiPmh 7 params → 200
SRU 1

SRU 1.1 search/retrieve over CQL.

GET
/sru
SRU 1.1 search/retrieve over CQL
sruSearchRetrieve 6 params → 200
unAPI 1

unAPI 1 alternate-format discovery.

GET
/unapi
unAPI 1 alternate-format discovery
unapi 2 params → 200
Feeds 1

RSS 1.0 feeds for any CQL search.

GET
/feed/{interval}
RSS 1.0 feed for any CQL search
getFeed 2 params → 200
Dumps 3

Daily full-dataset dumps under ODbL.

GET
/exports/publications.csv
Daily full dataset, comma-separated (~370MB; .zip variant ~130MB)
dumpCsv → 200
GET
/exports/publications.json
Daily full dataset, newline-delimited JSON (~2.2GB; .zip variant ~370MB)
dumpJson → 200
GET
/exports/publications-mods36.xml
Daily full dataset, MODS 3.6 (~3.3GB; .zip variant ~320MB)
dumpMods36 → 200

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is SearchResult (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

RecordFormat
string
Export formats named in the Academic Bibliography documentation.
SearchResult
object
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

ghent-biblio-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
ghent:biblio-sru
Base URL
https://biblio.ugent.be/sru
Docs
https://biblio.ugent.be/doc/api
Provider
Ghent University
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