LUP Student Papers

SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard XML-based search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language) as the standard syntax for representing queries.

This service makes it possible to automate basic queries and search in all the public records of LUP student papers.

Note that research papers are not included. They have their own SRU service.

If you want to harvest all the records, the LUP OAI service is better suited for that purpose.

To avoid server overload we kindly ask you to limit use to maximum 30 queries per minute.

The base URL for the service is http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/sru.

• Version 1.1 of SRU is supported (Link to specification here )
• Scan operation is not supported.
• Explain operation is supported.
• The following relations are supported: '<', '>', '>=', '<=', '=',  '<>', 'exact', 'all', 'any'.
• Relation modifiers are not supported.
• The boolean operators 'And', 'Or', 'Not' are supported. 'Prox' is not supported.
• Boolean modifiers are not supported.
• Masking characters '*' and '?' are supported, except at the beginning of words.
• Result sets are not supported.
• Maximum number of records that can be returned for a single request is now 1000. By default not more than 20 records are returned, but this can be changed by setting the parameter maximumRecords.

The available indexes are listed below. Note that the '_' between letters are ignored in the index name and the index name is also case insensitive. So articlenumber can also be written as article_number or articleNumber.

Each index corresponds to one or more fields in the records.

Index name	Relations Supported	Possible Values	Sortable	Description
abstract	<>, =, all, any	any text	no	Searches all abstracts text including popular abstracts
author	<>, =, all, any, exact	See person indexes	yes
basic	<>, =, all, any	any text	no	Search in the following basic fields: alternativeTitle, author, first_author, isbn, issn, keyword, last_author, mainTitle, oId, publication, publishingYear, supervisor
course	<>, =, exact	any text	yes
courseterm	<>, =, exact	any text	yes
datecreated	<, <=, <>, =, >, >=, exact	See date-time indexes	yes
datefirstpublic	<, <=, <>, =, >, >=, exact	See date-time indexes	yes
datelastchanged	<, <=, <>, =, >, >=, exact	See date-time indexes	yes
department	<>, =, >, all, any, exact	See list of valid department/affilation	no	will also find any subunits of the given organizationial unit
departmentexclusive	<>, =, >, all, any, exact	See list of valid department/affilation	no
departmentsingle	<>, =, >, all, any, exact	See list of valid department/affilation	no
fulltext	<>, =, exact	1	no	1 if document has open access full text
funder	<>, =, all, any, exact	funder ID / free text	no
id	<, <=, <>, =, >, >=, any, exact	ID of the record in LUP-SP	yes
isbn	<>, =, >, any', exact	Valid ISBN	yes
issn	<>, =, >, any, exact	Valid ISSN	yes
keywords	<>, =, >, all, any, exact	any text	no
language	<>, =, exact	three letter code. See the list of language codes	no
otheridentifier	<>, =, exact	any text	no
popularabstract	<>, =, all, any	any text	no
publication	<>, =, >, all, any, exact	any text	yes
publicationidentifier	<>, =, exact	any text	no	index of isbn, issn, otherPublicationIdentifier associated with the publication
publishingyear	<, <=, <>, =, >, >=, exact, within	valid year	yes	publishing year
reportnumber	<>, =, exact	any text	no
studentpapertype	<>, =, any, exact	see the list of document types	yes
subject	<>, =, all, any, exact	see the list of subjects	no
supervisor	<>, =, all, any, exact	See person indexes	no
title	<>, =, >, all, any, exact	any text	yes	Searches both the main title and the alternative title
url	<>, =, exact	any text	no

Date-time indexes

Search term can be in the form of:

• YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss (required to match using the 'exact' relation)

For other relations you have the option to specify just parts of the date-time to match:

• YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm
• YYYY-MM-DD hh
• YYYY-MM-DD
• YYYY-MM
• YYYY

For the '=' relation you can use the wildcards * and ? anywhere in the string to match. For example: 'datecreated = *-07-*' will find all records created in July any year.

Person Indexes

Searches names and IDs associated with the person.

If 'exact' is used the search term should one of:

• "surname, given names" (used also for sorting)
• lucat-id
• orcid

Type	Description
h1	Master's Degree (One Year)
h2	Master's Degree (Two Years)
h3	Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
l1	1st term paper (old degree order)
l2	2nd term paper (old degree order)
l3	Miscellaneous, Projetcs etc.
m1	University Diploma
m2	Bachelor Degree
m3	Professional qualifications ( - 4 Years)

A current LU organization tree with department numbers is possible to obtain in XML format here.

Languages, 3 letter code, subset of (iso639-2b), 'mis' is used for other languages.

Language code	Language name
ara	Arabic
chi	Chinese
dan	Danish
eng	English
fin	Finnish
fre	French
ger	German
gre	Greek
heb	Hebrew
ice	Icelandic
ita	Italian
jpn	Japanese
lat	Latin
mis	Other
nor	Norwegian
pol	Polish
por	Portuguese
rum	Romanian
rus	Russian
spa	Spanish
swe	Swedish
tur	Turkish
und	Unknown
yid	Yiddish

Subject Code	Subject
afs	Agriculture and Food Sciences
ara	Arts and Architecture
bls	Biology and Life Sciences
bue	Business and Economics
che	Chemistry
csc	Cultural Sciences
ees	Earth and Environmental Sciences
gew	General Works
hia	History and Archaeology
lal	Languages and Literatures
lps	Law and Political Science
mas	Mathematics and Statistics
mhs	Medicine and Health Sciences
pea	Performing Arts
pha	Physics and Astronomy
phr	Philosophy and Religion
scg	Science General
sos	Social Sciences
tee	Technology and Engineering

Query	Description
abstract = nanotechnology	the abstract contains the word "nanotechnology"
author all "eriksson nilsson"	author list contains both the words eriksson and nilsson
author any "eriksson bergman"	author list contains either eriksson or nilsson
author exact "Persson, Martin"	author has the given full name
author exact fkv12fab	author has the given student account ID
dateCreated = *-05-30	the record was last changed in January 2019 or later
dateCreated exact "2019-03-21 18:45:44"	the record was created at the specified date and time
dateCreated= "*-01 00*"	the record was created the 1st of the month between 12 and 1 am.
datelastChanged >= 2019-01	the record was last changed in January 2019 or later
department exact v1000601 and death	Records under v1000601 (Department of Biology) and death in any of the common fields.
funder = "cent??"	Records with with words in funder name matching the supplied term (will match both 'centre' and 'center')
funder exact F407	Record with project matching the funder ID
id any "1334179 1333689 1334134"	records with any the given IDs (LUP ID)
issn any "1401-9191 0280-5316 0280-5316"	Records with the any of the supplied ISSNs
keywords exact "war crimes"	keywords entry is exactly the phrase "war crimes"
studentPaperType exact M2	the document type is H2 (Bachelor Degree)
subject all "hia gew"	with subjects both under "History and Archaeology" and "General Works"
subject exact lal	with subject "Languages and Literatures"
supervisor exact "Gabrielsson, Sara"	supervisor has the given full name'
sweden	any common fields contain the word "Sweden"
title=computer* and title <> games	title or alternative title contains words starting with "computer" but don't contain "games"

Note that the maximum size of the URI should not reach more than 8190 bytes or you will get the "URI too long" server error. In order to avoid this error for large queries the request to the server can be sent as a POST request instead of a GET request.

For description (in Swedish) of the output format see: MODS applikationsprofil

See also mapping of LUP fields to MODS: LUP to MODS mapping .