---
aid: universitat-hamburg
name: Universität Hamburg
description: >-
  Universität Hamburg is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany,
  ranked #191 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and
  machine-readable footprint is concentrated in library and open-access
  infrastructure operated by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) and the
  Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ), rather than a single branded developer portal.
  Confirmed public interfaces include a DSpace-based institutional dissertation
  repository (ediss.sub.hamburg) exposing an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint, and an
  official Universität Hamburg open-source presence on GitHub. Campus systems such
  as the STiNE campus-management platform and Shibboleth/SAML single sign-on are
  gated and not openly documented as public APIs.
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/universitat-hamburg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Germany
  - Open Access
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: universitat-hamburg:ediss-oai
    name: E-Dissertationen (ediss.sub.hamburg) OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface for the DSpace-based institutional
      repository of electronic dissertations and habilitations of Universität
      Hamburg, operated by the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg. The
      endpoint supports the standard OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
      ListMetadataFormats, etc.) and was verified live returning Dublin Core
      metadata.
    humanURL: https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/service/publizieren/dissertationen/e-dissertationen-der-uhh.html
    baseURL: https://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, DSpace, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/service/publizieren/dissertationen/e-dissertationen-der-uhh.html
  - aid: universitat-hamburg:open-access-portal
    name: Open-Access-Portal Universität Hamburg
    description: >-
      Open Access discovery portal aggregating freely available publications,
      research data, teaching materials, and scientific collections of Universität
      Hamburg. Underlying IT services (repositories and metadata exports such as
      OAI) are operated by the Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZ); no single public,
      documented REST API is published, so this entry indexes the human-facing
      portal and its harvestable metadata infrastructure.
    humanURL: https://www.openaccess.uni-hamburg.de/en.html
    tags: [ Open Access, Repository, Metadata, Research Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.openaccess.uni-hamburg.de/en.html
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Uni-Hamburg
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universitaet-hamburg/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/services/weitere/authentifizierung/shibboleth/configure.html
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/universitat-hamburg-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/universitat-hamburg-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/universitat-hamburg-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com