Lund University

---
aid: lund
name: Lund University
description: >-
  Lund University is a public research university in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1666
  and ranked #74 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and
  API footprint centers on the Lund University Libraries' research-output and
  open-metadata services, principally Lund University Publications (LUP), which
  exposes a JSON Search API, OAI-PMH harvesting, SRU/CQL search, an unAPI discovery
  service, and RSS feeds. The Lund University Research Portal is an external
  interface to the LUCRIS research information system built on Elsevier Pure.
  Administrative, identity (SWAMID/SAML federation), and student-information
  systems exist but are gated behind institutional affiliation rather than openly
  self-service.
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/lund/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Sweden
  - Research
  - Library
  - Open Data
  - Publications
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: lund:lup-search
    name: Lund University Publications (LUP) Search API
    description: >-
      REST/JSON(P) search interface over the Lund University Publications
      database, returning publication hits with total, size, start, and limit
      paging parameters. No authentication required.
    humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
    baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication
    tags: [ Publications, Search, Library, Research, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/lund-lup-search.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/lund-publication-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/lund-searchresult-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/lund-publication-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/lund-searchpublications-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/lund-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/lund-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/lund-context.jsonld
  - aid: lund:lup-oai
    name: Lund University Publications OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for fully or partially harvesting
      Lund University publication metadata (Identify, ListMetadataFormats,
      ListRecords). No authentication required.
    humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
    baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/oai
    tags: [ Publications, OAI-PMH, Harvesting, Library, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  - aid: lund:lup-sru
    name: Lund University Publications SRU
    description: >-
      SRU 1.1 Search/Retrieve via URL service using CQL (Contextual Query
      Language) for querying the LUP publication database. Scan and explain
      operations are not supported; no authentication required.
    humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
    baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/sru
    tags: [ Publications, SRU, CQL, Search, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  - aid: lund:lup-unapi
    name: Lund University Publications unAPI
    description: >-
      unAPI 1 discovery service for retrieving alternate metadata formats of LUP
      records. No authentication required.
    humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
    tags: [ Publications, unAPI, Discovery, Library, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  - aid: lund:research-portal
    name: Lund University Research Portal (LUCRIS / Pure)
    description: >-
      Public external interface to the LUCRIS research information system, built
      on Elsevier Pure, covering researchers, organisations, outputs, projects,
      datasets, and activities. Lund documents that LUCRIS information can be
      retrieved automatically via API or RSS for institutional reporters and web
      editors; full public Pure API access is not openly self-service.
    humanURL: https://portal.research.lu.se/
    tags: [ Research, Pure, LUCRIS, Publications, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/lucris/research-portal
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lunduniversity
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/lund-university/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/lund-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/lund-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/lund-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]