# QSpace Institutional Repository (Open Repository tenant)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/qatar/qspace/  
**Provider:** Qatar University — https://apis.io/providers/qatar/  
**Base URL:** https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/server  
**Documentation:** https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/

QSpace Institutional Repository (Open Repository tenant) is one of 10 APIs that [Qatar University](https://apis.io/providers/qatar/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Institutional Repository, DSpace, OAI-PMH, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

QSpace is Qatar University's institutional repository — 66,950 records, DSpace 7.6, administered by Qatar University Library at quspace@qu.edu.qa, with every item carrying a persistent identifier under Qatar University's Handle prefix 10576. It serves an anonymous OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint with twelve dissemination formats, a public DSpace REST/HAL read API, and an OpenSearch 1.1 description document. All of that is real, and none of it is Qatar University's engineering: qspace.qu.edu.qa CNAMEs to qataru.cname.openrepository.com and resolves to Amazon eu-west-1, on a Let's Encrypt certificate rather than the Qatar University DigiCert certificate its self-hosted services carry, and the API root advertises atmire-* HAL links. Open Repository self-describes as "premium DSpace hosting". Recorded as a tenant relationship — the repository is a genuine institutional fact and one of Qatar University's few programmable surfaces — with the contract deliberately NOT saved here. Its Identify response also leaks an unexpanded DSpace configuration placeholder as its repositoryIdentifier.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **ResearchRepository** — https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/
- **Documentation** — https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
- **Evidence** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qatar/refs/heads/main/examples/qatar-qspace-oai-identify.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qatar/refs/heads/main/conformance/qatar-conformance.yml

## Other Qatar University APIs (9)

- [Qatar University Single Sign-On (OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0)](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/qu-sso-oidc/)
- [Qatar University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/qu-sso-saml/)
- [QU Press Open Journal System OAI-PMH API](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/qupress-oai/)
- [Qatar University Blackboard Learn (Anthology tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/blackboard-learn/)
- [Qatar University Library Research Guides (Springshare tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/libguides/)
- [Qatar University Student Information System (Ellucian Banner)](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/banner-sis/)
- [Research Organization Registry membership](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/ror/)
- [Crossref membership (Qatar University Press)](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/crossref/)
- [Handle.Net naming authority 10576](https://apis.io/apis/qatar/handle/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Institutional Repository, DSpace, OAI-PMH, Open Access

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