---
aid: university-of-antwerp
name: University of Antwerp
description: >-
  The University of Antwerp (Universiteit Antwerpen) is a public research university
  in Antwerp, Belgium, ranked #267 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its
  public developer and API footprint is centered on its library and scholarly
  infrastructure: the university library's software department, Anet, builds the
  open-source Brocade library management system and publishes code via the anet-be
  GitHub organization. The Institutional Repository University of Antwerp (IRUA)
  exposes scholarly metadata through a standards-based OAI-PMH interface. The
  university does not operate a general-purpose commercial developer portal;
  administrative, student-information, and identity systems are gated behind
  institutional affiliation rather than offered as public self-service 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/university-of-antwerp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Data
  - Belgium
  - Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-antwerp:irua-oai-pmh
    name: IRUA OAI-PMH Metadata API
    description: >-
      Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0)
      interface for the Institutional Repository University of Antwerp (IRUA),
      exposing scholarly publication metadata for harvesting. Supports the standard
      OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, etc.). Verified
      live returning valid OAI-PMH XML with repository name "Institutional
      Repository University of Antwerp (IRUA)".
    humanURL: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
    baseURL: https://repository.uantwerpen.be/oai/abua/
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Data, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - aid: university-of-antwerp:brocade
    name: Brocade Library Services (Anet)
    description: >-
      Brocade is the integrated, web-based library management system developed by
      Anet, the software department of the University of Antwerp Library, since 1998.
      It powers the catalog of the Anet network of academic libraries and uses open
      standards such as Z39.50, MARC, OAI-PMH, EAD and EAC. Related open-source
      components and library tooling are published under the anet-be GitHub
      organization (17 public repositories). No public self-service REST API base
      URL is documented for general use.
    humanURL: https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/anet/brocade/
    tags: [ Library, Brocade, Anet, Open Source, Z39.50, MARC ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/projecten/anet/brocade/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/anet-be
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/anet-be
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-antwerp/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/uantwerpen
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/anet-be
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-antwerp-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-antwerp-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-antwerp-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com