# Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/hbku/elmi-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** Hamad Bin Khalifa University — https://apis.io/providers/hbku/  
**Base URL:** https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai  
**Documentation:** https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/

Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH is one of 5 APIs that [Hamad Bin Khalifa University](https://apis.io/providers/hbku/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, and Open Access.

HBKU's research information system, Elmi, runs Elsevier Pure on the university's own subdomain and exposes a public, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai. Confirmed by the protocol handshake on 2026-08-30, not by link presence: ?verb=Identify returns a valid envelope declaring adminEmail elmi@hbku.edu.qa, protocolVersion 2.0 and earliestDatestamp 2024-07-18; ?verb=ListMetadataFormats offers oai_dc, qdc, mods, mods_swepub, nl_didl, xmetadiss and uketd_dc; ?verb=ListSets offers persons:all, publications:all, publications:withFiles and per-year sets; a ListRecords call returned 96KB of records with no credential. This is the one education-regime domain standard HBKU meets. Marked tenant because the software is Elsevier's (repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", and the Pure REST API at /ws/api canonicalizes to api.elsevierpure.com) — the metadata is HBKU's, the contract is not. Elsevier's Pure REST API on the same host requires an API key (401 on /ws/api/persons) and no Pure specification is stored under this slug.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Website** — https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hbku/refs/heads/main/conformance/hbku-education-standards.yml

## Other Hamad Bin Khalifa University APIs (4)

- [Fanar API](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/fanar-api/)
- [Farasa Web API](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/farasa-api/)
- [HBKU Academic Catalog — Course Search](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/course-catalog-search/)
- [Manara — Qatar Research Repository (HBKU portal)](https://apis.io/apis/hbku/manara-repository/)

## Tags

Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Open Access

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