Rice University

Rice Research Repository (DSpaceDirect tenancy) — REST API

The Rice Research Repository (R-3) is Fondren Library's institutional repository, holding Rice theses, dissertations and scholarship back to 2005 and minting DOIs on Rice's own DataCite prefixes. The repository, its content and its curation are Rice's. The software and the contract are not: repository.rice.edu is a CNAME to rice.dspacedirect.org and resolves to the same three addresses as dspacedirect.org, behind a platform-provisioned Let's Encrypt certificate — it is a DSpaceDirect (Lyrasis) tenancy running DSpace 9.3. The tenancy is recorded here because it is a real institutional fact; the DSpace REST contract is deliberately NOT saved under Rice, and belongs to DSpace's own catalog entry.

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Website

https://repository.rice.edu/

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Examples

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/examples/rice-repository-dspace-root-example.json

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Errors

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/errors/rice-errors.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: rice:repository-rest
name: Rice Research Repository (DSpaceDirect tenancy) — REST API
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The Rice Research Repository (R-3) is Fondren Library''s institutional repository, holding
  Rice theses, dissertations and scholarship back to 2005 and minting DOIs on Rice''s own DataCite prefixes.
  The repository, its content and its curation are Rice''s. The software and the contract are not: repository.rice.edu
  is a CNAME to rice.dspacedirect.org and resolves to the same three addresses as dspacedirect.org, behind
  a platform-provisioned Let''s Encrypt certificate — it is a DSpaceDirect (Lyrasis) tenancy running DSpace
  9.3. The tenancy is recorded here because it is a real institutional fact; the DSpace REST contract
  is deliberately NOT saved under Rice, and belongs to DSpace''s own catalog entry.'
humanURL: https://repository.rice.edu/
baseURL: https://repository.rice.edu/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- DSpace
- DSpaceDirect
- Lyrasis
- Library
- Scholarship
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://repository.rice.edu/
- type: Examples
  url: examples/rice-repository-dspace-root-example.json
- type: Errors
  url: errors/rice-errors.yml