---
aid: university-of-copenhagen
name: University of Copenhagen
description: >-
  The University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet, UCPH), founded in 1479,
  is Denmark's oldest and largest university and one of the leading research
  institutions in the Nordic region, ranked #53 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. It has no centralized public developer portal or documented
  open-data API program. Its public technical footprint consists of the
  ku-kom GitHub organization (TYPO3 CMS extensions and front-end styleguide used
  to build the ku.dk web platform) and the CURIS research information system on
  researchprofiles.ku.dk, an Elsevier Pure platform that conventionally supports
  OAI-PMH metadata harvesting and the Pure web service though these endpoints
  could not be confirmed reachable from the public internet at review time.
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-copenhagen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Denmark
  - Nordic
  - Open Source
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-copenhagen:research-portal
    name: University of Copenhagen Research Portal (CURIS / Pure)
    description: >-
      The University of Copenhagen Research Portal (researchprofiles.ku.dk) is
      built on the Elsevier Pure research information system, locally branded
      CURIS. Pure platforms conventionally expose research metadata via an
      OAI-PMH interface and the Pure web service (REST). The public portal was
      reachable but its programmatic endpoints returned access-restricted
      responses from the public internet at review time, so no working public
      base URL is asserted here.
    humanURL: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/
    tags: [ Research, Repository, Pure, OAI-PMH, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/
  - aid: university-of-copenhagen:ku-kom-github
    name: University of Copenhagen Web Platform (ku-kom GitHub)
    description: >-
      The ku-kom GitHub organization publishes the open-source TYPO3 CMS
      extensions and Bootstrap-based styleguide that power the ku.dk web
      platform. These are reusable source-code components rather than a hosted,
      consumable web API, but they are the university's primary public
      developer-facing technical assets.
    humanURL: https://github.com/ku-kom
    tags: [ Open Source, TYPO3, CMS, Web ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/ku-kom
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/ku-kom
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.ku.dk/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ku-kom
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-copenhagen/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-copenhagen-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-copenhagen-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-copenhagen-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com