Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

---
aid: iisc
name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
description: >-
  The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore is India's premier research-intensive
  university, founded in 1909, and ranked #211 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
  IISc does not operate a formal, centralized public developer portal. Its confirmable
  public machine-readable footprint is academic: the ePrints@IISc institutional repository
  (EPrints software) exposes an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the DSpace-based ETD@IISc
  theses repository is likewise OAI-compliant. Individual labs and centres publish open
  source on GitHub (for example cni-iisc, csl-iisc, val-iisc), but there is no single
  official institutional GitHub org with public repositories or a documented REST API
  program.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - India
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
# 2026-06-03: ETD@IISc is live on DSpace 6 and exposes a verified read-only REST
# API at https://etd.iisc.ac.in/rest (Communities/Collections/Items/Bitstreams,
# JSON) plus an OAI-PMH endpoint at /oai/request. Full artifacts added below.
apis:
  - aid: iisc:eprints-oai
    name: ePrints@IISc OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      ePrints@IISc is the open-access institutional repository of IISc research
      publications, established in 2002 on EPrints software. It is OAI-compliant
      and exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface at the standard EPrints
      /cgi/oai2 path for indexing and metadata reuse. The repository is publicly
      readable; deposit is restricted to the IISc research community. The live site
      is fronted by an Azure Application Gateway that blocks automated requests, so
      the OAI endpoint could not be programmatically verified during this review.
    humanURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
    baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
  - aid: iisc:etd-oai
    name: ETD@IISc OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      ETD@IISc is the Electronic Theses and Dissertations repository of IISc, built
      on DSpace and documented as ETD-MS and OAI-PMH compliant, exposing thesis
      metadata for harvesting. The host returned an HTTP 502 during this review, so
      the live OAI endpoint could not be confirmed.
    humanURL: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/
    baseURL: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Theses, DSpace, Research, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/iisc-etd-rest.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/iisc-item-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/iisc-item-structure.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/iisc-listItems-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/iisc-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/iisc-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/iisc-context.jsonld
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://iisc.ac.in/
  - type: Library
    url: https://library.iisc.ac.in/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/IISc
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-science/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/iisc-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/iisc-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/iisc-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]