---
aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam
name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
description: >-
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) is a public research university in
  the Netherlands, ranked #221 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like
  most universities, VU Amsterdam does not operate a centralized public developer
  portal. Its programmatic footprint is concentrated in research-infrastructure
  systems: the VU Research Portal (research.vu.nl), an Elsevier Pure instance that
  exposes a live OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint and a Pure REST web service, and
  research data published through DataverseNL. The University Library maintains an
  active public GitHub organization (ubvu) of open-science tooling. Most teaching,
  student-information, and identity systems are internal and not publicly
  documented.
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/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Netherlands
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:research-portal-oai
    name: VU Research Portal OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Vrije Universiteit
      Amsterdam Repository, served by the institution's Elsevier Pure research
      information system at research.vu.nl. Confirmed live: an Identify request
      returns the repository name "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository" with
      admin contact pure.ub@vu.nl. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify,
      ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, etc.) for harvesting publications,
      persons, organizations, and projects.
    humanURL: https://research.vu.nl/
    baseURL: https://research.vu.nl/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Data, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/en_US/data-sources-and-integrations/what-is-the-oai-base-url
  - aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:pure-web-service
    name: VU Research Portal Pure Web Service (REST)
    description: >-
      The Elsevier Pure REST web service for the VU Research Portal. The base
      path (research.vu.nl/ws/api) responds (HTTP 302 redirect), indicating the
      service is present but gated/authenticated. Pure exposes content types such
      as research-outputs, persons, organisations, and projects via versioned
      endpoints (for example /ws/api/524/research-outputs). Access typically
      requires an API key issued by the institution; not a fully open public API.
    humanURL: https://research.vu.nl/
    tags: [ Research, Repository, REST, Pure, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/web-service/harvesting-content-from-the-pure-web-services-changes
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/web-service/harvesting-content-from-the-pure-web-services-changes
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-pure-web-service.yaml
  - aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:dataverse-nl
    name: VU Amsterdam research data on DataverseNL
    description: >-
      Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam publishes and shares research datasets through
      DataverseNL, the national Dataverse repository service. The Dataverse
      software exposes a documented Native and Search REST API for programmatic
      access to dataverses, datasets, and files. VU's collection is hosted at
      dataverse.nl/dataverse/vuamsterdam (HTTP 200 confirmed).
    humanURL: https://dataverse.nl/dataverse/vuamsterdam
    baseURL: https://dataverse.nl/api
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Dataverse, Open Data, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://vu.nl/en
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Vrije-Universiteit-Amsterdam
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/ubvu
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/VUamsterdam
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com