---
aid: aalto
name: Aalto University
description: >-
  Aalto University is a multidisciplinary public research university in Espoo,
  Finland, formed in 2010 from the merger of three institutions and ranked #113
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is
  modest and mostly research- or open-data-oriented: an authentication-gated
  Aalto API Gateway (3scale) exposing course/student information system APIs
  such as the Open Courses (SISU) API, a Linked Open Aalto Data service offering
  a public SPARQL endpoint, and the Aaltodoc institutional repository (DSpace)
  with public OAI-PMH and REST access. Active open-source development is
  published primarily through the AaltoSciComp GitHub organization.
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/aalto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - Finland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: aalto:api-gateway
    name: Aalto API Gateway
    description: >-
      Aalto's 3scale-based API gateway exposing open interfaces about Aalto and
      its operations, sourced from systems such as Oodi and ASIO. Access
      requires signing in with an Aalto account (and the developer portal
      typically requires the Aalto network or VPN); it is not a fully public,
      anonymous API.
    humanURL: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/api-gateway-application-programming-interface
    tags: [ Education, API Gateway, Courses, Students, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/api-gateway-application-programming-interface
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
  - aid: aalto:open-courses-sisu
    name: Open Courses API (SISU)
    description: >-
      Course-data API exposed through the Aalto API Gateway, providing course
      and realization information from the SISU student information system. A
      Swagger/OpenAPI reference is published, but the rendered specification and
      live calls require authentication with an Aalto account; the base path is
      /api/aalto.
    humanURL: https://3scale.apps.ocp4.aalto.fi/docs/swagger/open_courses_sisu
    tags: [ Courses, SISU, Education, Students ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://3scale.apps.ocp4.aalto.fi/docs/swagger/open_courses_sisu
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
  - aid: aalto:linked-open-data
    name: Linked Open Aalto Data (SPARQL)
    description: >-
      Open data published by Aalto University expressed as Linked Data, offering
      a public SPARQL query endpoint, a Linked Data browser, and downloadable
      datasets covering courses, publications, research projects, buildings,
      staff, organizational structure, and events. The SPARQL endpoint is hosted
      on the Linked Data Finland platform (ldf.fi/loa).
    humanURL: https://data.aalto.fi/
    baseURL: http://ldf.fi/loa/sparql
    tags: [ Open Data, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDF ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.aalto.fi/
  - aid: aalto:aaltodoc-oai
    name: Aaltodoc Repository (OAI-PMH and REST)
    description: >-
      Aaltodoc is Aalto University's DSpace-based institutional repository of
      theses, articles, conference publications, and research materials. It
      exposes a public, OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (OpenAIRE compliant) for metadata
      harvesting and a DSpace REST API at /server/api.
    humanURL: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/
    baseURL: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Research, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-science-and-research/aaltodoc-publication-archive
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.aalto.fi/en
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/AaltoSciComp
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/aalto-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aalto-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/aalto-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com