# Abacus OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ubc/abacus-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of British Columbia — https://apis.io/providers/ubc/  
**Base URL:** https://abacus.library.ubc.ca/oai  
**Documentation:** https://abacus.library.ubc.ca/

Abacus OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint is one of 7 APIs that [University of British Columbia](https://apis.io/providers/ubc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Research Data, and DataCite. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

A working OAI-PMH 2.0 archive on UBC Library's own host. Verified live 2026-08-19: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "Abacus Data Network Dataverse OAI Archive", adminEmail abacus-support@lists.ubc.ca; verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc, oai_ddi, Datacite and oai_datacite; verb=ListRecords returns DataCite kernel-4 records. Sets separate public content (abacus_open) from consortium-licensed content. CORRECTION: the catalog previously pointed this at https://open.library.ubc.ca/oai/request, which is an Angular SPA behind a bot defence and returns the same HTML shell with HTTP 200 for every path including invented ones. It never served OAI-PMH.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://abacus.library.ubc.ca/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ubc/refs/heads/main/conformance/ubc-domain-standards-conformance.yml

## Other University of British Columbia APIs (6)

- [UBC Library Open Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/open-collections/)
- [UBC Library Open Collections IIIF Presentation API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/open-collections-iiif/)
- [UBC Library Abacus Dataverse API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/abacus-dataverse/)
- [UBC Shibboleth Identity Provider Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/shibboleth-idp/)
- [UBC Integration Enablement Centre API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/iec-api-gateway/)
- [UBC IT Service Status API](https://apis.io/apis/ubc/it-status/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Research Data, DataCite

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