Bibliographic Records and Inventory
The BIBs API allows access to Bibliographic records related information, as described in the map below.

Alma provides a set of Web services for handling bibliographic records related information, enabling you to quickly and easily manipulate bibliographic records related details. These Web services can be used by external systems to retrieve or update bibliographic records related data.
Catalog
Loans
Requests
Request Options
API | Path | |
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Retrieve request options. | GET /almaws/v1/bibs/{mms_id}/holdings/{holding_id}/items/{item_pid}/request-options | |
Retrieve request options. | GET /almaws/v1/bibs/{mms_id}/request-options |
Collections
E-Collections
API | Path | |
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Retrieve Electronic Collections for Bib record | GET /almaws/v1/bibs/{mms_id}/e-collections | |
Retrieve Electronic Collection | GET /almaws/v1/bibs/{mms_id}/e-collections/{collection_id} |
Digital Representations
Reminders
Authorities
Test
API | Path | |
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GET Inventory Test API | GET /almaws/v1/bibs/test | |
POST Inventory Test API | POST /almaws/v1/bibs/test |
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