McMaster University

MacSphere Institutional Repository

McMaster University Libraries' institutional repository of theses, dissertations and open-access research outputs. DSpace 8.2, self-hosted, holding 26,361 items with an earliest datestamp of 2014-06-17. Exposes a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 interface offering twelve metadata formats (oai_dc, qdc, dim, mods, mets, didl, ore, xoai, rdf, marc, rioxx, uketd_dc) and the DSpace REST API for anonymous read. NO CONTRACT IS SAVED FOR THIS SURFACE, deliberately. McMaster runs the deployment, but the REST API is DSpace's generic contract shipped by every DSpace institution; saving it here would credit McMaster with DSpace's engineering. The deployment is the institutional fact and that is what is recorded.

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Documentation

https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere

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Conformance

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcmaster/refs/heads/main/conformance/mcmaster-conformance.yml

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Website

https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: mcmaster:macsphere
name: MacSphere Institutional Repository
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: macsphere.mcmaster.ca resolves to prod-ms-be.lib.mcmaster.ca — both under mcmaster.ca.
  The repository is self-hosted by McMaster University Libraries, not a hosted vendor tenancy.
description: 'McMaster University Libraries'' institutional repository of theses, dissertations and open-access
  research outputs. DSpace 8.2, self-hosted, holding 26,361 items with an earliest datestamp of 2014-06-17.
  Exposes a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 interface offering twelve metadata formats (oai_dc, qdc, dim, mods,
  mets, didl, ore, xoai, rdf, marc, rioxx, uketd_dc) and the DSpace REST API for anonymous read.


  NO CONTRACT IS SAVED FOR THIS SURFACE, deliberately. McMaster runs the deployment, but the REST API
  is DSpace''s generic contract shipped by every DSpace institution; saving it here would credit McMaster
  with DSpace''s engineering. The deployment is the institutional fact and that is what is recorded.'
humanURL: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/
baseURL: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/server/oai/request
tags:
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Metadata
- Theses
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/mcmaster-conformance.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/