---
aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology
name: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
description: >-
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public research university and
  national research center in Karlsruhe, Germany, ranked #102 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. KIT's public developer/API footprint is centered on
  research infrastructure operated by the KIT Library and partner FIZ Karlsruhe:
  the KITopen institutional repository (built on the dbkit framework, exposing
  an OAI-PMH harvesting interface), and the RADAR / RADAR4KIT research-data
  repository which offers a RESTful, OAuth-secured archive API. Identity is
  handled via a Shibboleth/SAML IdP operated by the Scientific Computing Center
  (SCC). KIT does not publish a single consolidated developer portal; its
  open-source code is spread across many institute-level 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/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Research Data
  - Library
  - Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:kitopen-oai
    name: KITopen OAI-PMH Interface
    description: >-
      KITopen is KIT's central open-access institutional repository for
      bibliographic data, full texts, images, research data, and AV media of KIT
      scientists. It is built on the KIT Library dbkit framework and exposes an
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface (repository name "KITopen").
    humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
    baseURL: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/
    tags: [ Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
  - aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:dbkit
    name: dbkit API
    description: >-
      dbkit is a web application framework developed by the KIT Library that
      provides both an API interface and an OAI interface, enabling import and
      export of bibliographic data (BibTeX, EndNote, RIS, CSL-JSON, ISI).
      KITopen and related KIT Library applications are built on dbkit.
    humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
    tags: [ Library, Metadata, Bibliographic, Export, Framework ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
  - aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:radar4kit
    name: RADAR / RADAR4KIT Archive API
    description: >-
      RADAR4KIT is KIT's interdisciplinary research-data repository for
      archiving and publishing research data, based on the RADAR service
      operated by FIZ Karlsruhe. RADAR provides a RESTful "Archive API" covering
      contracts, workspaces, datasets, folders, and files (including DOI
      assignment and WebDAV upload). Access requires an OAuth 2.0 client ID and
      a dedicated API user activated by RADAR; Shibboleth accounts are not
      supported for API access.
    humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/radar.php
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, REST, OAuth, DOI, FIZ Karlsruhe ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/radarfeatures/radar-api
  - aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:shibboleth-idp
    name: KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider (SCC)
    description: >-
      KIT operates a Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 Identity Provider via the Scientific
      Computing Center (SCC) for single sign-on and federated authentication
      across KIT services and the DFN-AAI federation.
    humanURL: https://www.scc.kit.edu/
    baseURL: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, SSO, Shibboleth, SAML, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://idp.scc.kit.edu/idp/shibboleth
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.kit.edu/english/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/KIT-SCC
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kit/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com