---
aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg
name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
description: >-
  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is a public research
  university in Bavaria, Germany, ranked #224 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. FAU does not operate a single consolidated developer portal, but several
  of its central services expose public, machine-readable interfaces. The
  University Library's OPEN FAU institutional repository runs on DSpace 7.4 and
  publishes a browsable REST/HAL API and an OAI-PMH metadata interface, while the
  FAU CRIS research information system (built on Clarivate Converis) exposes a
  public web-service path that is access-restricted on FAU's instance. Central IT
  (RRZE) and the Competence Center for Research Data and Information (CDI) maintain
  active public GitHub organizations and a self-hosted GitLab.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Library
  - Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:open-fau-rest
    name: OPEN FAU DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      OPEN FAU is the institutional open-access publication repository of FAU,
      built on DSpace 7.4. Its REST/HAL API exposes communities, collections,
      items, bitstreams, discovery/search and browse endpoints for harvesting
      and integrating repository content. Read access to public content is open;
      submission and management endpoints require authentication.
    humanURL: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
    baseURL: https://open.fau.de/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Research, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
  - aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:open-fau-oai
    name: OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Interface
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the OPEN FAU DSpace repository,
      supporting standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets,
      GetRecord) for bulk metadata harvesting of FAU open-access publications.
      The legacy OPUS FAU OAI endpoint now redirects to OPEN FAU.
    humanURL: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
    baseURL: https://open.fau.de/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Open Access, Repository, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
  - aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:cris-converis-ws
    name: FAU CRIS Converis Public Web Service
    description: >-
      FAU CRIS is the university's research information system, built on Clarivate
      Converis, holding 146,000+ publications and 5,200+ research projects and
      syndicating data to 1,000+ websites. Converis provides public web-service
      endpoints under /converis/ws/public for reading info objects; on FAU's
      instance these paths respond but return HTTP 403 (access-restricted),
      so programmatic access is gated rather than openly documented.
    humanURL: https://cris.fau.de/
    tags: [ Research, CRIS, Converis, Web Service, Restricted ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.fau.eu/research/services-for-researchers/research-information-system/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.fau.eu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/RRZE-Webteam
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/FAU-CDI
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://gitlab.rrze.fau.de/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/fau-erlangen-n%C3%BCrnberg/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.rrze.fau.de/2009/10/zentraler-anmeldedienst-fur-web-anwendungen-mein-campus-stud-on-und-uniportal/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com