---
aid: ens-paris
name: École Normale Supérieure de Paris
description: >-
  École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS, rue d'Ulm) is a leading French grande
  école and constituent member of Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres),
  ranked #86 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. ENS operates 15
  departments, 35 research laboratories and a network of libraries. ENS does not
  publish a first-party developer portal or documented institutional API; its
  programmatic surface is reached indirectly via national French research and
  higher-education open infrastructure. Researcher output is deposited in the
  HAL-ENS open archive, which is harvestable through the national HAL OAI-PMH
  endpoint and the HAL REST/Search API, and ENS establishment data is exposed
  through the Ministry of Higher Education (MESR) open-data platform's
  Opendatasoft Explore API.
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/ens-paris/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Open Access
  - France
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: ens-paris:hal-oai-pmh
    name: HAL-ENS Open Archive (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      HAL-ENS is the open archive hosting the scientific production of ENS Paris
      researchers, teacher-researchers and doctoral students. It is part of the
      national HAL platform and is harvestable via the OAI-PMH protocol; ENS
      content can be retrieved by collection sets. No registration is required to
      use the HAL OAI server.
    humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
    baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
    tags: [ Open Access, Research, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
  - aid: ens-paris:hal-api
    name: HAL Search / REST API
    description: >-
      The national HAL open-archive REST and Search API provides programmatic
      query access to publication metadata, including records deposited in the
      HAL-ENS portal. Results can be filtered by collection, document type and
      discipline.
    humanURL: https://api.hal.science/docs/
    baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/
    tags: [ Open Access, Research, Search, Publications, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.hal.science/docs/
  - aid: ens-paris:mesr-opendata
    name: MESR Higher Education Open Data (Explore API)
    description: >-
      The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESR)
      open-data platform exposes establishment, enrolment and research datasets
      via an Opendatasoft Explore API. ENS Paris appears as an establishment in
      these national datasets; this is a third-party platform, not operated by
      ENS itself.
    humanURL: https://data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/console
    baseURL: https://data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/
    tags: [ Open Data, Higher Education, Statistics, Government, France ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/api/explore/v2.1/console
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/ens-paris-mesr-opendata.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/ens-paris-records-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/ens-paris-dataset-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/ens-paris-records-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/ens-paris-dataset-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/ens-paris-query-dataset-records-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/ens-paris-query-datasets-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/ens-paris-rules.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ens.psl.eu/en
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ecole-normale-superieure/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ens-paris-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ens-paris-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ens-paris-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/ens-paris-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/ens-paris-context.jsonld
  - type: x-blogs
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com