Qatar University OAI PMH API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: QU Press Open Journal System OAI PMH API
  version: '2.0'
  summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for Qatar University Press's self-hosted journal platform.
  description: 'Qatar University Press runs its own Open Journal Systems installation (PKP OJS 3.3.0.7) at

    `journals.qu.edu.qa`, on Qatar University''s own network.'
  contact:
    name: Qatar University Press
    email: mjaberi@qu.edu.qa
    url: https://journals.qu.edu.qa/
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-09-01'
    method: derived
    source: Derived from live probes on 2026-09-01 of https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/index/oai — verb=Identify (200, OJS 3.3.0.7), verb=ListSets (200, 100 setSpec entries), verb=ListMetadataFormats (200, four formats), verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc (200, completeListSize 3186), verb=GetRecord with an emitted identifier (200 carrying error badArgument), verb=ListRecords with no metadataPrefix (200 carrying error badArgument), verb=Nope (200 carrying error badVerb) — plus verb=Identify against each of the eight journal-scoped endpoints, and 403 responses from /index.php/jes/api/v1/issues and /contexts. Captured responses are stored under examples/.
    x-operator: institution
    x-operator-basis: journals.qu.edu.qa resolves to 185.37.108.12, netname QUNET "Qatar University" (RIPE, country QA), with no CNAME. TLS subject C=QA, L=Doha, O=Qatar University, CN=*.qu.edu.qa. OJS is open-source software from the Public Knowledge Project that Qatar University Press self-hosts and operates; the journals, editorial workflow and content are its own.
servers:
- url: https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php
  description: QU Press Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.7 (Qatar University Press)
security: []
tags:
- name: oai pmh
  description: The six OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol verbs, site-wide and per journal.
paths:
  /index/oai:
    get:
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      operationId: oaiRequestAllJournals
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request across every QU Press journal
      description: Site-wide OAI-PMH endpoint. Always answers HTTP 200 with `text/xml`; protocol failures are reported as an `` element inside the body, never as a non-2xx status. A client that branches on the HTTP status alone will read every malformed request as an empty success.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Verb'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/MetadataPrefix'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Identifier'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Set'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/From'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Until'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ResumptionToken'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH XML response, carrying either a payload or an `<error>` element.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OaiPmhResponse'
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify — repository self-description (observed 2026-09-01)
                  externalValue: ../../examples/qatar-qupress-oai-identify.xml
                listIdentifiers:
                  summary: ListIdentifiers — completeListSize 3186 (observed 2026-09-01)
                  externalValue: ../../examples/qatar-qupress-oai-listidentifiers.xml
                listMetadataFormats:
                  summary: ListMetadataFormats — four supported formats (observed 2026-09-01)
                  externalValue: ../../examples/qatar-qupress-oai-listmetadataformats.xml
                getRecordRejectsOwnIdentifier:
                  summary: GetRecord with an identifier this endpoint itself emitted — returns badArgument "Identifier is not in a valid format" (observed 2026-09-01)
                  externalValue: ../../examples/qatar-qupress-oai-getrecord.xml
                badArgument:
                  summary: 'Error: ListRecords with no metadataPrefix, returned with HTTP 200'
                  externalValue: ../../examples/qatar-qupress-oai-error-badargument.xml
                badVerb:
                  summary: 'Error: illegal verb, returned with HTTP 200'
                  externalValue: ../../examples/qatar-qupress-oai-error-badverb.xml
  /{journal}/oai:
    get:
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      operationId: oaiRequestSingleJournal
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request scoped to one journal
      description: Per-journal OAI-PMH endpoint. Each journal reports its own `repositoryName` while sharing the site-wide `repositoryIdentifier` of `ojs.journals.qu.edu.qa`. All eight were confirmed live on 2026-09-01.
      parameters:
      - name: journal
        in: path
        required: true
        description: "Journal path identifier as used in the OJS URL. Confirmed values and the\n`repositoryName` each returns:\n  * `jes` — Journal of Educational Sciences – Qatar University\n  * `sharia` — Journal of College of Sharia and Islamic Studies\n  * `tajseer` — Tajseer Journal\n  * `IRL` — International Review of Law\n  * `SBE` — Studies in Business and Economics\n  * `ANDD` — Academic Network for Development Dialogue (ANDD) Paper Series\n  * `ANSQ` — ANSAQ Journal\n  * `CIC` — Proceedings of the International Conference on Civil Infrastructure and Construction\n"
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - jes
          - sharia
          - tajseer
          - IRL
          - SBE
          - ANDD
          - ANSQ
          - CIC
        example: jes
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Verb'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/MetadataPrefix'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Identifier'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Set'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/From'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Until'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ResumptionToken'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH XML response scoped to the named journal.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OaiPmhResponse'
components:
  parameters:
    MetadataPrefix:
      name: metadataPrefix
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Dissemination format. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. ListMetadataFormats declares four.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - oai_dc
        - oai_marc
        - marcxml
        - rfc1807
      example: oai_dc
    ResumptionToken:
      name: resumptionToken
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Continuation token from a previous incomplete list response.
      schema:
        type: string
    From:
      name: from
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Lower bound on record datestamp, at the declared granularity.
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date-time
      example: '2025-01-01T00:00:00Z'
    Identifier:
      name: identifier
      in: query
      required: false
      description: OAI identifier of a single record. Required for GetRecord. The repository's Identify response declares the form `oai:ojs.journals.qu.edu.qa:article/<id>`, but the records it actually emits carry `oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/<id>` and GetRecord rejects that form with badArgument. Neither form was observed to succeed; see the defect note in `info.description`.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: oai:ojs.journals.qu.edu.qa:article/11
    Set:
      name: set
      in: query
      required: false
      description: One of the 100 sets ListSets returns — a journal (`sharia`) or a journal section (`sharia:ART`), with `_ar` suffixes marking Arabic-language sections.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: sharia:ART
    Verb:
      name: verb
      in: query
      required: true
      description: The OAI-PMH verb to execute.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - Identify
        - ListMetadataFormats
        - ListSets
        - ListIdentifiers
        - ListRecords
        - GetRecord
      example: Identify
    Until:
      name: until
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Upper bound on record datestamp, at the declared granularity.
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date-time
      example: '2025-12-31T23:59:59Z'
  schemas:
    OaiPmhError:
      type: object
      description: OAI-PMH protocol error, carried in an HTTP 200 response body.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          enum:
          - badVerb
          - badArgument
          - badResumptionToken
          - cannotDisseminateFormat
          - idDoesNotExist
          - noRecordsMatch
          - noMetadataFormats
          - noSetHierarchy
        message:
          type: string
      required:
      - code
    OaiPmhResponse:
      type: object
      description: Root `OAI-PMH` element in namespace http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/. Described structurally; the authoritative schema is the OAI-PMH 2.0 XSD at http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd.
      properties:
        responseDate:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        request:
          type: string
          format: uri
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OaiPmhError'
      additionalProperties: true