Australian National University

ANU Open Research DSpace REST API

The HAL+JSON REST API of ANU's self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 repository, reachable anonymously at /server/api for the root and discovery resources; /server/api/core/items returns 401, so the surface is genuinely access-controlled rather than uniformly open. Recorded as an ANU-operated surface because ANU runs the instance on its own infrastructure, but no specification is saved for it: the contract shape is DSpace's upstream design, not ANU engineering, and saving a generic DSpace spec under an institution's slug is precisely the misattribution this profile exists to avoid.

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https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: anu:openresearch-rest
name: ANU Open Research DSpace REST API
description: 'The HAL+JSON REST API of ANU''s self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 repository, reachable anonymously
  at /server/api for the root and discovery resources; /server/api/core/items returns 401, so the surface
  is genuinely access-controlled rather than uniformly open. Recorded as an ANU-operated surface because
  ANU runs the instance on its own infrastructure, but no specification is saved for it: the contract
  shape is DSpace''s upstream design, not ANU engineering, and saving a generic DSpace spec under an institution''s
  slug is precisely the misattribution this profile exists to avoid.'
humanURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/
baseURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api
tags:
- Repository
- REST
- HAL
- DSpace
- Research
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Self-hosted open-source software on ANU infrastructure under ANU's domain. Contract
  design is upstream DSpace's; no spec saved here for that reason.
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api