Université libre de Bruxelles

---
aid: ulb
name: Université libre de Bruxelles
description: >-
  Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a major French-speaking research
  university in Brussels, Belgium, ranked #230 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint is centered on
  DI-fusion, the university's institutional research repository, which exposes
  a documented HTTP export API for scholar and group publication lists, a
  search interface, RSS feeds, and an OAI-PMH harvesting service for metadata.
  ULB also maintains an official GitHub organization for departmental and
  research code. Beyond these, most ULB systems (student/SIS portals, library
  discovery, SSO) are gated and not publicly documented as APIs.
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/ulb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Belgium
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: ulb:difusion-scholar
    name: DI-fusion Scholar Export API
    description: >-
      Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a given
      ULB scholar (identified by matricule or DAI). Supports output formats
      including APA, BibTeX, RIS, CSV, xml-brief, xml-brief-ext and xml-full,
      with grouping, role filtering, markup and language options. Returns live
      XML/text bibliographic data.
    humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion
    baseURL: https://difusion-svc.ulb.ac.be/scholar
    tags: [ Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Bibliography ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
  - aid: ulb:difusion-group
    name: DI-fusion Group Export API
    description: >-
      Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a group of
      ULB scholars, defined either by a valid group ID or a list of scholar
      IDs. Shares output formats and options with the Scholar export API.
    humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion
    baseURL: https://difusion-svc.ulb.ac.be/group
    tags: [ Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, Bibliography ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
  - aid: ulb:difusion-oai
    name: DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service
    description: >-
      ULB's DI-fusion institutional repository documents an OAI-PMH harvesting
      service allowing third parties to harvest metadata for non-profit
      purposes (provided the OAI identifier or source link is indicated).
      DI-fusion is registered in OpenDOAR, ROAR and Sherpa as an OAI-PMH
      compliant repository. The repository runs on VuFind; specific OAI base
      URLs were not returning a stable public response at review time.
    humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion/terms-of-use
    tags: [ Research, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ulb.be/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ulb
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://be.linkedin.com/school/universite-libre-de-bruxelles/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ulb
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ulb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ulb-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ulb-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]