Seoul National University

Seoul National University (SNU) is South Korea's flagship national research university, located in Seoul, and is ranked #34 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its primary public, machine-readable developer footprint is S-Space, the SNU Open Repository and Archive, a DSpace-based institutional repository that exposes a standards-compliant OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for metadata harvesting of theses, journal articles, and research outputs. SNU does not publish a centralized developer portal or general-purpose open-data API; most other digital services (mySNU portal, SSO, library discovery) are gated and not openly documented.

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---
aid: snu
name: Seoul National University
description: >-
  Seoul National University (SNU) is South Korea's flagship national research
  university, located in Seoul, and is ranked #34 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its primary public, machine-readable developer footprint is
  S-Space, the SNU Open Repository and Archive, a DSpace-based institutional
  repository that exposes a standards-compliant OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for
  metadata harvesting of theses, journal articles, and research outputs. SNU
  does not publish a centralized developer portal or general-purpose open-data
  API; most other digital services (mySNU portal, SSO, library discovery) are
  gated and not openly documented.
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/snu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - South Korea
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: snu:s-space-oai-pmh
    name: S-Space OAI-PMH Repository Interface
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for S-Space, the SNU Open
      Repository and Archive (a DSpace institutional repository). Verified live
      (HTTP 200) with repositoryName "SNU Open Repository and Archive" and
      earliest datestamp 2008-07-31. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs
      (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, ListIdentifiers, ListSets,
      GetRecord) and multiple metadata formats including oai_dc, qdc, mods,
      mets, marc, rdf, didl, ore, uketd_dc, and xoai.
    humanURL: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/
    baseURL: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Institutional Repository, DSpace, Open Access, Research, Metadata Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/
      - type: x-OAI-PMH-Identify
        url: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/oai/request?verb=Identify
      - type: x-OAI-PMH-MetadataFormats
        url: https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://en.snu.ac.kr/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/seoulnational-university
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/snu-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/snu-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/snu-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]

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