University of California, Berkeley

---
aid: ucb
name: University of California, Berkeley
description: >-
  The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is a public land-grant
  research university and the flagship campus of the University of California
  system, ranked #12 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Berkeley operates
  a formal, centrally governed API program through its Integration Services /
  Enterprise Information Services team, exposing campus data via the API Central
  developer portal and a shared API Gateway. Access is gated behind CalNet
  identity and Data Owner approval, with interactive OpenAPI-based documentation
  and gateway-level authentication, authorization, and rate limiting. Public,
  uncredentialed footprint also includes the UC-wide eScholarship repository
  APIs/OAI-PMH and library Alma/Primo metadata services.
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/ucb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - United States
  - California
apis:
  - aid: ucb:api-central
    name: API Central (Developer Portal)
    description: >-
      Berkeley's centralized API management developer portal where developers
      browse and search published campus APIs, read interactive OpenAPI-based
      documentation with a "Try it out" feature, and request access credentials.
      Login and access require a CalNet identity and Data Owner approval via
      ServiceNow.
    humanURL: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
    tags: [ API Management, Developer Portal, OpenAPI, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/developer-portal-api-central
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
  - aid: ucb:api-gateway
    name: UC Berkeley API Gateway
    description: >-
      The single, centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley
      campus. The gateway centralizes functions common to all campus APIs,
      including load balancing, authentication, authorization, and rate
      limiting. Individual API endpoints are exposed and discovered through
      API Central.
    humanURL: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/api-gateway
    baseURL: https://gateway.api.berkeley.edu/
    tags: [ API Gateway, Authentication, Rate Limiting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/api-gateway
  - aid: ucb:escholarship
    name: eScholarship Repository API (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      The University of California's open-access publishing and institutional
      repository (which includes UC Berkeley scholarship) exposes a public,
      uncredentialed read API and an OAI-PMH interface for harvesting metadata
      and content records, alongside RSS/Atom and KBART feeds.
    humanURL: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000223035-about-escholarship-apis
    baseURL: https://www.escholarship.org/oai
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000223035-about-escholarship-apis
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000133474-using-the-oai-pmh-interface
  - aid: ucb:library-alma
    name: UC Berkeley Library Alma/Primo Integrations
    description: >-
      The UC Berkeley Library runs the Ex Libris Alma/Primo platform for
      collection management and discovery, exposing metadata via the Alma
      OAI-PMH provider and Primo discovery. The library maintains public
      open-source Alma/Primo utilities on GitHub.
    humanURL: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/alma
    tags: [ Library, Alma, Primo, OAI-PMH, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/alma
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.berkeley.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ucberkeley
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-berkeley/
  - type: Status
    url: https://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/UCBerkeley
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/developer-portal-api-central
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ucb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ucb-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ucb-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]