# Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — DataCite repository client

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/datacite-repository-client/  
**Provider:** Queen's University Belfast — https://apis.io/providers/queens-university-belfast/  
**Base URL:** https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.qub  
**Documentation:** https://pure.qub.ac.uk/

Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — DataCite repository client is one of 5 APIs that [Queen's University Belfast](https://apis.io/providers/queens-university-belfast/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include DataCite, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, Research Data, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Queen's University Belfast is a DataCite consortium organization (provider jxtg) and has operated a registered DataCite repository client, BL.QUB, since 2015, through which the Research Portal mints DOIs for datasets and theses. The registration itself is machine-readable through the DataCite REST API, which is what makes it worth recording: it is a verifiable persistent-identifier commitment rather than a claim on a web page.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-belfast/refs/heads/main/conformance/queens-university-belfast-conformance.yml
- **Documentation** — https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.qub
- **HumanURL** — https://pure.qub.ac.uk/

## Other Queen's University Belfast APIs (4)

- [Queen's University Belfast Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/identity-federation-idp/)
- [Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/research-portal-oai/)
- [Queen's University Belfast Pure API deployment (Elsevier Pure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/pure-web-service-api/)
- [Queen's University Belfast Canvas LMS deployment (Instructure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/queens-university-belfast/canvas-lms/)

## Tags

DataCite, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, Research Data, Open Access

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