Technical University of Darmstadt

---
aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt
name: Technical University of Darmstadt
description: >-
  The Technical University of Darmstadt (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, TU
  Darmstadt) is a public research university in Darmstadt, Germany, ranked #241
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable
  developer footprint is centered on the university and state library (ULB)
  scholarly infrastructure rather than a central developer portal. TUdatalib,
  the institutional research-data repository, runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a
  live REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata interface; the TUbiblio publication
  bibliography and the tuprints open-access repository run on EPrints with
  OAI-PMH harvesting. Authentication across university services is handled
  through a central SSO system operated by the Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ).
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/technical-university-of-darmstadt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tudatalib-rest
    name: TUdatalib DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      REST API of TUdatalib, the institutional research-data repository of TU
      Darmstadt, running on DSpace 8.1. The API root reports dspaceName
      "TUdatalib System" and exposes HAL-style endpoints for communities,
      collections, and items (e.g. /server/api/core/communities). Verified live
      returning HTTP 200 with JSON.
    humanURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
    baseURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/api
    tags: [ Research Data, DSpace, REST, Repository, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
  - aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tudatalib-oai
    name: TUdatalib OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for TUdatalib (DSpace 8.1).
      Verified live: Identify returns repositoryName "TUdatalib System",
      protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail [email protected].
    humanURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
    baseURL: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/faq/
  - aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tubiblio-oai
    name: TUbiblio OAI-PMH (EPrints)
    description: >-
      TUbiblio is the publication bibliography of TU Darmstadt, built on EPrints
      and registered with an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for metadata harvesting. The
      OAI base path is /cgi/oai2. The public site loads in browsers but applies
      bot/TLS filtering, so the OAI endpoint was not directly curl-verifiable
      during review.
    humanURL: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
    baseURL: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Publications, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Metadata, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
  - aid: technical-university-of-darmstadt:tuprints-oai
    name: tuprints OAI-PMH (EPrints)
    description: >-
      tuprints is the open-access publication repository of TU Darmstadt, built
      on EPrints with an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface (base path /cgi/oai2). The
      repository site returns HTTP 200; the OAI endpoint returned HTTP 403 to a
      plain client during review and likely requires a standard harvester
      client.
    humanURL: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
    baseURL: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Open Access, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Metadata, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/index.en.jsp
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/TU-Darmstadt
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tu-darmstadt/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/sso
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/technical-university-of-darmstadt-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/technical-university-of-darmstadt-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/technical-university-of-darmstadt-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/technical-university-of-darmstadt-context.jsonld
  - type: Blog
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]