---
aid: sorbonne
name: Sorbonne University
description: >-
  Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Université) is a public research university in
  Paris, France, formed in 2018 from the merger of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre et
  Marie Curie universities. It serves roughly 53,000 students across faculties
  of Arts & Humanities, Health Sciences, and Science & Engineering, and is
  ranked #81 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Sorbonne University does
  not operate a centralized public developer portal; its programmatic surface is
  delivered through open-science infrastructure: the HAL Sorbonne Université open
  archive (harvestable via the standards-based OAI-PMH and HAL search APIs) and a
  Sorbonne University collection on the national Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse,
  which exposes a live Dataverse Native REST API. An official GitHub organization
  exists but currently hosts no public repositories.
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/sorbonne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Open Science
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Dataverse
  - France
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: sorbonne:hal-oai
    name: HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      HAL Sorbonne Université is the institution's open archive of scholarly
      publications. Its metadata is harvestable through the standards-based
      OAI-PMH protocol served by the central HAL infrastructure
      (api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal), which returns a valid Identify
      response and exposes records dating back to 2002 under a CC0 metadata
      license. The institutional portal at hal.sorbonne-universite.fr is the
      public web front end.
    humanURL: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
    baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
    tags: [ Open Access, Open Science, OAI-PMH, Repository, Publications, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
      - type: Website
        url: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
  - aid: sorbonne:hal-search
    name: HAL Search API
    description: >-
      The HAL Solr-based search API exposes structured queries over the HAL
      corpus, including publications affiliated with Sorbonne Université. It
      returns JSON/XML and supports faceting and filtering on collections,
      authors, and document types.
    humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/search
    baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/
    tags: [ Search, Open Access, Publications, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/search
  - aid: sorbonne:dataverse
    name: Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse - Sorbonne Université Collection
    description: >-
      Sorbonne Université maintains a research-data collection on the French
      national Recherche Data Gouv repository, built on Dataverse 6.0. The
      Dataverse Native REST API is live (the version endpoint returns
      {"status":"OK","data":{"version":"6.0"}}) and supports programmatic
      dataset discovery, metadata retrieval, and file access. The Sorbonne
      collection holds dozens of datasets across earth science, physics,
      chemistry, and medicine.
    humanURL: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/dataverse/sorbonne-univ
    baseURL: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/api/
    tags: [ Research Data, Dataverse, Open Data, Open Science, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html
      - type: Website
        url: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/dataverse/sorbonne-univ
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/sorbonne-universite
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sorbonne-universite/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/sorbonne-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/sorbonne-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/sorbonne-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com