Peking University

---
aid: peking
name: Peking University
description: >-
  Peking University (PKU) is a major public research university in Beijing,
  China, ranked #25 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its most clearly
  documented public, machine-readable API footprint is the Peking University
  Open Research Data Platform, a Dataverse-based research data repository
  operated by the PKU Library that exposes both the native Dataverse REST API
  and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. Campus identity is handled
  by the PKU IAAA unified authentication system (a CAS/SSO service), which is
  gated and not a public developer API. No general-purpose institutional
  developer portal was found at the time of review.
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/peking/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - China
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: peking:opendata-rest
    name: PKU Open Research Data Platform (Dataverse REST API)
    description: >-
      The Peking University Open Research Data Platform is built on Dataverse
      and exposes the standard Dataverse native REST API for searching,
      retrieving, and managing dataverses, datasets, and files. The platform
      hosts research data across social sciences, health, bioinformatics, and
      NLP. API behavior follows the upstream Dataverse API guides.
    humanURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
    baseURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Data, Dataverse, REST, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
      - type: Website
        url: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
  - aid: peking:opendata-oaipmh
    name: PKU Open Research Data Platform (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the Peking University
      Open Research Data Platform Dataverse archive. Verified to respond to the
      Identify verb, supporting metadata standards including Dublin Core and
      DataCite, with YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ granularity. Implemented via the XOAI
      OAI-PMH Java toolkit.
    humanURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
    baseURL: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Research Data, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/oai.html
      - type: Website
        url: https://opendata.pku.edu.cn/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://english.pku.edu.cn/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/PKUHPC
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/peking-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://iaaa.pku.edu.cn/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/pengchengluo/Peking-University-Open-Research-Data-Platform
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/peking-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/peking-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/peking-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]