University of Groningen

---
aid: university-of-groningen
name: University of Groningen
description: >-
  The University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, RUG/UG) is a public
  research university in Groningen, Netherlands, founded in 1614 and ranked #75
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable
  developer/API footprint is centered on research-output and research-data
  infrastructure: an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint over its Pure CRIS
  research portal (OpenAIRE CERIF profile), the Elsevier Pure REST web-services
  API (live but API-key gated), and the shared DataverseNL data repository
  (Dataverse Native REST API) that serves as the UG default repository for
  research data and software. The University does not operate a single unified,
  self-service public developer portal; most institutional, SIS, timetable, and
  identity APIs are internal or gated. The University also maintains an official
  GitHub organization publishing open-source research-data and education tools.
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-groningen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Research Data
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - Netherlands
  - Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-groningen:pure-oai-pmh
    name: UG Research Portal OAI-PMH (Pure)
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint over the University of Groningen
      research portal, powered by Elsevier Pure (CRIS). Exposes research-output
      and CRIS metadata using the OpenAIRE CERIF profile and standard OAI-PMH
      verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, GetRecord). Verified
      live returning a valid OAI-PMH XML response.
    humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/ug-research-portal/?lang=en
    baseURL: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, Open Data, Metadata, OAI-PMH, CRIS, Pure, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/ug-research-portal/?lang=en
  - aid: university-of-groningen:pure-rest-api
    name: UG Pure Web Services REST API
    description: >-
      The Elsevier Pure web-services REST API exposed at the University of
      Groningen Pure instance, providing programmatic access to research
      information (publications, persons, organisations, projects, datasets).
      The endpoint is live but requires an institution-issued API key
      (verified returning HTTP 401 Unauthorized without credentials), so access
      is gated and not self-service.
    humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
    baseURL: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/api
    tags: [ Research, REST, CRIS, Pure, Gated, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-groningen-pure-rest-api.yaml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-groningen-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/university-of-groningen-rules.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/university-of-groningen-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-groningen:dataversenl-native-api
    name: DataverseNL Native REST API (UG Default Data Repository)
    description: >-
      DataverseNL is the shared, DANS-operated Dataverse data repository that
      the University of Groningen designates as its default repository for
      publishing research data and software. The Dataverse Native REST API
      provides programmatic search, dataset, file, and metadata access across
      the platform (verified live, Dataverse v6.9). UG datasets are also made
      findable via the UG Research Portal.
    humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/research-data/archive-and-publish/open-data?lang=en
    baseURL: https://dataverse.nl/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Data, Repository, Dataverse, REST, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.rug.nl/digital-competence-centre/research-data/archive-and-publish/open-data?lang=en
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-groningen-dataversenl-native-api.yaml
  - aid: university-of-groningen:irods-python-api
    name: iBridges / Python API for iRODS
    description: >-
      Open-source Python client libraries and tooling for interacting with
      iRODS research-data-management storage, published by the official
      University of Groningen Centre for Information Technology GitHub
      organization (iBridges, iBridges-GUI, and an Apache WebDAV interface to
      iRODS). These are source-code SDKs/tools rather than a hosted public API.
    humanURL: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
    tags: [ Research Data, iRODS, Python, SDK, Open Source ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
      - type: SourceCode
        url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.rug.nl/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/rijksuniversiteit-groningen
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rijksuniversiteit-groningen/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/univgroningen
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-groningen-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-groningen-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-groningen-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]