University of Gothenburg

---
aid: university-of-gothenburg
name: University of Gothenburg
description: >-
  The University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs universitet) is a public research
  university in Sweden, founded in 1891, with roughly 37,000 students and 6,000
  employees, and ranked #194 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its
  public, machine-accessible footprint is research- and library-centric rather
  than a unified developer program: the Gothenburg University Library operates
  the GUPEA institutional repository (DSpace) which exposes a standards-based
  OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute
  publishes open-access datasets via downloads and a Data Finder tool. The
  university does not appear to operate a central, documented developer portal
  with public REST API keys; affiliated technical work is distributed across
  departmental GitHub organizations.
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/university-of-gothenburg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Sweden
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-gothenburg:gupea-oai-pmh
    name: GUPEA Repository OAI-PMH Interface
    description: >-
      GUPEA (Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive) is the
      university's DSpace-based institutional repository. It exposes an
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint (repository name "GUPEA",
      admin email [email protected], earliest datestamp 1906) for programmatic
      harvesting of publication and thesis metadata in standard formats such
      as oai_dc.
    humanURL: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/
    baseURL: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, DSpace, Research, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/
  - aid: university-of-gothenburg:qog-data
    name: Quality of Government (QoG) Open Data
    description: >-
      The Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg
      publishes open-access governance datasets (Standard, Basic, OECD, and
      original datasets) available as direct file downloads in CSV, SPSS, and
      Stata formats, plus an interactive Data Finder tool for browsing
      categories, sources, datasets, and variables. No formal REST API with
      sign-up keys is documented; access is via downloadable files and the
      web-based Data Finder.
    humanURL: https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government/qog-data/data-downloads
    tags: [ Open Data, Research, Datasets, Governance, Downloads ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government/qog-data
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://datafinder.qog.gu.se/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.gu.se/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/bcfgothenburg
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-gothenburg/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-gothenburg-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-gothenburg-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-gothenburg-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]