---
aid: university-of-helsinki
name: University of Helsinki
description: >-
  The University of Helsinki is Finland's oldest and largest multidisciplinary
  research university, founded in 1640, and is ranked #68 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on
  open scholarly infrastructure: Helda, the university's institutional
  repository, runs on DSpace 7 and exposes both a public REST API and an
  OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface. The university also maintains official
  GitHub organizations for its IT, computer science, student services, and
  language technology groups. Student-facing academic data flows through the
  Funidata Sisu student information system (Kori GraphQL/REST APIs), which is
  used institutionally but is not publicly documented or self-service.
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-helsinki/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Finland
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-rest
    name: Helda DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Public REST API for Helda, the open institutional repository of the
      University of Helsinki, powered by DSpace 7.6.2. Provides programmatic
      access to research publications, dissertations, theses, and other
      scholarly material, including discovery/search, items, collections, and
      communities. The repository root advertises DSpace HAL links at
      /server/api.
    humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
    baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, DSpace, Research, Open Access, Scholarly ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api
  - aid: university-of-helsinki:helda-oai
    name: Helda OAI-PMH Metadata Interface
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint for Helda, enabling third parties to
      harvest Dublin Core and other metadata formats describing the
      university's open-access publications. Confirmed live, returning a valid
      OAI-PMH Identify response with repository name "Helda".
    humanURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/
    baseURL: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Repository, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-helsinki:sisu-kori
    name: Sisu (Kori) Student Information System API
    description: >-
      The University of Helsinki runs the Funidata Sisu student information
      system for academic administration (study plans, course registration,
      curricula, organizations). Sisu exposes GraphQL and REST APIs via its
      Kori component for data integration. These interfaces are used
      institutionally and partner-integration only; there is no public,
      self-service developer portal or documentation for the University of
      Helsinki tenant. Listed here for completeness as a gated API.
    humanURL: https://www.funidata.fi/en/services/sisu
    tags: [ Student Information System, Sisu, GraphQL, Gated, Academic ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.funidata.fi/en/services/sisu
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.helsinki.fi/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UniversityofHelsinki
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-helsinki/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-helsinki-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-helsinki-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-helsinki-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com