specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Uppsala University
providerId: uppsala
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
reconciled: false
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  Uppsala University is a public, non-commercial higher-education institution and none of its APIs
  are sold. Every surface verified on 2026-08-30 is free of charge: the UCDP Public API is free but
  token-gated (a free token is issued after the maintainers review a stated research use, in 3-5
  working days, and carries a 5,000 requests/day quota); the Norse World REST-API and the DiVA
  OAI-PMH endpoint are free and open with no key at all. Identity federation via the SWAMID-
  registered Shibboleth IdP is gated by institutional affiliation rather than payment. No paid tier,
  per-seat price or per-call price exists on any Uppsala surface.
notes: >-
  No published per-seat or per-call commercial pricing was found. "Free / Open" reflects the
  anonymous public endpoints (Norse World, DiVA OAI-PMH); "Free / Token-Reviewed" reflects UCDP,
  where the gate is editorial review rather than money; "Affiliation / Credentialed" reflects access
  gated by institutional identity. Uppsala publishes no course-catalog or open-data API, so no plan
  is claimed for one.
sources:
- https://ucdp.uu.se/apidocs/
- https://www.uu.se/en/research/norseworld/infrastructure/rest-api
- https://uu.diva-portal.org/dice/oai?verb=Identify
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uppsala/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
plans:
- id: uppsala-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: >-
    Anonymous public endpoints offered at no charge and with no key — the Norse World REST-API
    (JSON / GeoJSON / JSON-LD) and the DiVA OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint.
  entries:
  - label: Open API Access
    name: open_api_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: uppsala-free-token-reviewed
  name: Free / Token-Reviewed
  type: free
  description: >-
    The UCDP Public API. Free of charge, but access requires a token issued by the UCDP maintainers
    after review of a stated research purpose, sent in the x-ucdp-access-token header. Quota 5,000
    requests per day; errors count towards it.
  entries:
  - label: UCDP Access Token
    name: ucdp_access_token
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: 5000
    timeFrame: day
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: uppsala-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: Administrative and identity APIs gated behind institutional SSO, client certificates, or federation membership rather than payment.
  entries:
  - label: Credentialed Access
    name: credentialed_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com