Cornell University

eCommons Digital Repository (DSpace REST and OAI-PMH)

eCommons is Cornell University Library's institutional repository, running on DSpace 7+. It exposes a public DSpace REST API for items, communities, collections, and bitstreams, and an OAI-PMH endpoint for metadata harvesting using Dublin Core. The library migrated to new DSpace infrastructure in January 2026.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
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Authentication
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/oai/request?verb=Identify

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cornell:ecommons
name: eCommons Digital Repository (DSpace REST and OAI-PMH)
description: eCommons is Cornell University Library's institutional repository, running on DSpace 7+.
  It exposes a public DSpace REST API for items, communities, collections, and bitstreams, and an OAI-PMH
  endpoint for metadata harvesting using Dublin Core. The library migrated to new DSpace infrastructure
  in January 2026.
humanURL: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
baseURL: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api
tags:
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Research
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/ecommons/syndication
- type: Authentication
  url: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/oai/request?verb=Identify