# KFUPM ePrints OAI-PMH Repository Interface

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kfupm/eprints-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals — https://apis.io/providers/kfupm/  
**Base URL:** https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2  
**Documentation:** https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/

KFUPM ePrints OAI-PMH Repository Interface is one of 4 APIs that [King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals](https://apis.io/providers/kfupm/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Harvesting, Open Access, and Theses. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Live OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the KFUPM ePrints institutional repository (EPrints 3.4.1), self-hosted on the university's own domain. repositoryIdentifier eprints.kfupm.edu.sa, adminEmail eprints-system@kfupm.edu.sa, granularity to the second, deletedRecord policy persistent. All six verbs verified live 2026-08-30; six metadata formats offered (didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, rdf, uketd_dc). No authentication. No metadata, data or submission policy is declared — the Identify response still carries the EPrints defaults, so reuse rights for harvested metadata are undeclared.

## Operations (1)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/oai2` | Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request |

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/openapi/kfupm-eprints-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/conformance/kfupm-conformance.yml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-identify.xml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/examples/kfupm-eprints-oai-getrecord.xml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/errors/kfupm-errors.yml
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
- **Lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kfupm/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/kfupm-lifecycle.yml

## Other King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals APIs (3)

- [KFUPM Identity Federation (SAML 2.0 + OpenID Connect)](https://apis.io/apis/kfupm/identity-federation/)
- [KFUPM ePrints Export & Search (JSON)](https://apis.io/apis/kfupm/eprints-export/)
- [KFUPM Elsevier Pure Web Services (tenant deployment)](https://apis.io/apis/kfupm/pure-tenant/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Harvesting, Open Access, Theses, Metadata

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