Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia OAI PMH API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, version 2.0.

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GET /oai OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint #

GET /request OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Ukm OAI PMH API
  version: '2.0'
  x-institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
  x-operator: institution
  x-refined-note:
  - x-provenance differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  - x-software differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  description: 'Operations tagged OAI-PMH across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: ukm-ejournal-oai-pmh-openapi.yml, ukm-ptsl-digital-oai-pmh-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://ejournal.ukm.my/index.php/index
  description: Site-wide OAI-PMH endpoint (all journals)
- url: https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/oai
  description: Institution-operated OAI-PMH endpoint
tags:
- name: oai pmh
  description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, version 2.0.
paths:
  /oai:
    get:
      operationId: ejournalOaiRequest
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint
      description: Single OAI-PMH endpoint for every journal on the platform. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. Protocol errors are returned inside an XML `` element with HTTP status 200. A single journal can be harvested with `set`, or by substituting the journal path for `index` in the base URL.
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - oai_marc
          - marcxml
          - nlm
          - rfc1807
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record. Required for GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: oai:ojs.ukm.my:article/1
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec restricting the harvest to one journal or journal section.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH XML response. Protocol errors also return 200 with an `<error>` element.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify response (captured 2026-09-01)
                  externalValue: ../examples/ukm-ejournal-oai-identify.xml
    servers:
    - url: https://ejournal.ukm.my/index.php/index
      description: Site-wide OAI-PMH endpoint (all journals)
  /request:
    get:
      operationId: oaiRequest
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint
      description: Single OAI-PMH endpoint. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. All six protocol verbs were verified live on 2026-09-01. Protocol errors are returned inside an XML `` element with HTTP status 200, as the OAI-PMH specification requires.
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: OAI-PMH verb.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
        examples:
          identify:
            value: Identify
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. Twelve formats are offered by this deployment.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - uketd_dc
          - qdc
          - didl
          - mods
          - ore
          - mets
          - oai_dc
          - rdf
          - marc
          - xoai
          - dim
          - etdms
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record. Required for GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: oai:http://ptsldigitalv2.ukm.my:123456789/1234
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set spec to restrict a selective harvest to one DSpace collection.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound of the datestamp range. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound of the datestamp range.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned by an incomplete list response.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH XML response. Protocol errors also return 200 with an `<error>` element — read the body, not the status code.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml
              examples:
                identify:
                  summary: Identify response (captured 2026-09-01)
                  externalValue: ../examples/ukm-ptsldigital-oai-identify.xml
                badVerb:
                  summary: Protocol error returned with HTTP 200
                  externalValue: ../examples/ukm-ptsldigital-oai-badverb.xml
    servers:
    - url: https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/oai
      description: Institution-operated OAI-PMH endpoint
x-refined-from:
- ukm-ejournal-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- ukm-ptsl-digital-oai-pmh-openapi.yml

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