specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: University of Basel
providerId: university-of-basel
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live anonymous probes of every University of Basel institution-operated surface on 2026-08-30.
  No pricing, plan, quota or commercial term is published by the university for any of them.
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Plans
description: >-
  The University of Basel sells no API access and publishes no plan of any kind. Its open surfaces
  — the edoc DSpace REST API and the edoc OAI-PMH interface — are anonymous and free with no quota,
  no registration and no terms specific to programmatic use. Its closed surfaces — the UNIverse
  research information API, the sciCORE OpenID Connect issuer, the ADAM LTI endpoint — are not sold
  either; they are internal systems whose credentials are issued administratively, so there is
  nothing to price. This is an honest zero, not an unfilled section: a canton-funded public
  university with no developer program has no plans to record.
notes: >-
  The DaSCH rate card previously recorded here (long-term archiving above a free tier, consulting
  above a free allowance, read from https://www.dasch.swiss/services/pricing) was removed on
  2026-08-30 with the rest of the DaSCH-attributed estate. Those are real published prices, but
  they belong to DaSCH — a legally independent association hosted at the university — and pricing
  DaSCH's services under Basel's slug was part of the same misattribution as saving DaSCH's
  contract here.
plan_count: 1
plans:
- id: university-of-basel-open-access
  name: Open Access
  type: free
  description: >-
    The edoc DSpace REST API and the edoc OAI-PMH interface are called anonymously and free of
    charge, with no plan, no quota, no key and no rate limit. Verified 2026-08-30.
  entries:
  - label: Open Access
    name: open_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    currency: CHF
    userMultiplied: false
gaps:
- No published pricing, plan or quota for any Basel-operated surface.
- No terms of use specific to programmatic access or bulk harvesting.
- No commercial or licensing terms attached to the repository content beyond per-item licences.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-basel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com