Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary Research Online (QMRO) — DSpace 8.4 REST API

Queen Mary's open-access institutional repository runs DSpace 8.4 and exposes the standard DSpace REST API on the university's own host. The HAL service document at /server/api answers unauthenticated and advertises 79 endpoint families including core items, collections, communities, bitstreams and metadata schemas, a discovery search plane, a versioning plane, a statistics and usage-report plane, PID resolution, and LDN / COAR Notify inboxes. DSpace is open-source software Queen Mary self-hosts; no generic DSpace specification is saved under this slug, because the contract belongs to the DSpace project rather than to the university. A web application firewall in front of the host intermittently answers scripted clients with a JavaScript challenge or an outright block, which is what made this surface invisible to the 2026-06-03 profile.

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Authentication

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x-service-document

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ResearchRepository

https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: queen-mary-university-of-london:qmro-dspace-rest
name: Queen Mary Research Online (QMRO) — DSpace 8.4 REST API
description: Queen Mary's open-access institutional repository runs DSpace 8.4 and exposes the standard
  DSpace REST API on the university's own host. The HAL service document at /server/api answers unauthenticated
  and advertises 79 endpoint families including core items, collections, communities, bitstreams and metadata
  schemas, a discovery search plane, a versioning plane, a statistics and usage-report plane, PID resolution,
  and LDN / COAR Notify inboxes. DSpace is open-source software Queen Mary self-hosts; no generic DSpace
  specification is saved under this slug, because the contract belongs to the DSpace project rather than
  to the university. A web application firewall in front of the host intermittently answers scripted clients
  with a JavaScript challenge or an outright block, which is what made this surface invisible to the 2026-06-03
  profile.
humanURL: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- DSpace
- Scholarly Communication
- Metadata
properties:
- type: x-service-document
  url: examples/queen-mary-university-of-london-qmro-dspace-api-root.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/queen-mary-university-of-london-authentication.yml
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Host qmro.qmul.ac.uk is under Queen Mary's own registrable domain, and the service
  document self-declares dspaceUI and dspaceServer as https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk. The software is DSpace;
  the deployment, the host and the content are the institution's.
x-software: DSpace 8.4
x-probe:
  baseURL_status: 200
  probed: '2026-09-01'
  note: 200, 8621 bytes, application/hal+json on 2026-09-01. Repeat requests within the same minute are
    met with a WAF JavaScript challenge or a connection reset; the surface is live and rate-protected,
    not intermittent. The default dspaceName "DSpace at My University" is left unconfigured on the instance.