McGill University

eScholarship@McGill on Scholaris (tenant)

McGill's institutional research repository, running as a tenant on Scholaris. It exposes a DSpace REST (HAL) root at /server/api and a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint at /server/oai/request advertising thirteen metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, xoai, dim, rdf, marc, etdms, rioxx, uketd_dc). No contract is saved under McGill: the DSpace REST and OAI-PMH interfaces are the platform's and belong to DSpace, not to this institution. Recorded because the repository, its records and its DOIs are genuinely McGill's — this is one of the few programmable surfaces the university actually has.

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Documentation

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APIReference
https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/server/api

Other Resources

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ResearchRepository
https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/
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x-oai-pmh
https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcgill/refs/heads/main/conformance/mcgill-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: mcgill:escholarship-scholaris
name: eScholarship@McGill on Scholaris (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: mcgill.scholaris.ca is an institution-specific subdomain on the Scholaris platform
  (Scholars Portal / OCUL) and resolves via public-proxy.scholaris.ca. escholarship.mcgill.ca, McGill's
  own hostname, CNAMEs to nproxy.scholarsportal.info and redirects here. The OAI-PMH Identify response
  names the repository "eScholarship@McGill" with adminEmail escholarship.library@mcgill.ca — McGill's
  content and McGill's contact on a consortial DSpace 7 deployment McGill does not engineer.
description: 'McGill''s institutional research repository, running as a tenant on Scholaris. It exposes
  a DSpace REST (HAL) root at /server/api and a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint at /server/oai/request
  advertising thirteen metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, xoai, dim, rdf, marc, etdms,
  rioxx, uketd_dc). No contract is saved under McGill: the DSpace REST and OAI-PMH interfaces are the
  platform''s and belong to DSpace, not to this institution. Recorded because the repository, its records
  and its DOIs are genuinely McGill''s — this is one of the few programmable surfaces the university actually
  has.'
humanURL: https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/
baseURL: https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/server
tags:
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Scholaris
- Open Access
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/server/api
- type: x-oai-pmh
  url: https://mcgill.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/mcgill-conformance.yml