University of Hong Kong

HKU Scholars Hub OAI-PMH

HKU Scholars Hub is the University's DSpace-based open-access institutional repository and current research information system, on HKU's own host. It is documented as exposing an OAI-PMH metadata interface at https://hub.hku.hk/oai/request. Every automated probe on 2026-08-19 — verb=Identify, /server/api, /rest/ — returned HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare managed challenge, including with a browser User-Agent. The surface is live and institution-hosted but unreadable to machines as deployed, so no OAI-PMH conformance is credited.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: hku:scholars-hub-oai
name: HKU Scholars Hub OAI-PMH
description: HKU Scholars Hub is the University's DSpace-based open-access institutional repository and
  current research information system, on HKU's own host. It is documented as exposing an OAI-PMH metadata
  interface at https://hub.hku.hk/oai/request. Every automated probe on 2026-08-19 — verb=Identify, /server/api,
  /rest/ — returned HTTP 403 behind a Cloudflare managed challenge, including with a browser User-Agent.
  The surface is live and institution-hosted but unreadable to machines as deployed, so no OAI-PMH conformance
  is credited.
humanURL: https://hub.hku.hk/
baseURL: https://hub.hku.hk/oai/request
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://hub.hku.hk/
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: hub.hku.hk resolves to Cloudflare in front of HKU's own DSpace deployment; the repository,
  its content and its DOIs are HKU's. DSpace is open-source software, not a vendor tenancy.
x-probe:
  url: https://hub.hku.hk/oai/request?verb=Identify
  status: 403
  note: Cloudflare managed challenge — blocked, not absent.
  probed: '2026-08-19'