University of Canterbury

UC Research Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the UC Research Repository, a self-hosted DSpace 7 institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research outputs. Verified live 2026-08-30: verb=Identify returns HTTP 200 with repositoryName "UC Research Repository", repositoryIdentifier ir.canterbury.ac.nz, adminEmail eservices@libr.canterbury.ac.nz and earliestDatestamp 2007-05-08. verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises didl, dim, etdms, marc, mets, mods, oai_dc, ore, qdc, rdf, rioxx, uketd_dc and xoai. Host, administrative contact and identifier namespace are all the institution's; the OAI-PMH protocol is OpenArchives' and no contract is claimed for it here.

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Authentication
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-canterbury/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-canterbury-conformance.yml
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-canterbury/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-canterbury:research-repository-oai
name: UC Research Repository OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the UC Research Repository, a self-hosted
  DSpace 7 institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research outputs. Verified live 2026-08-30:
  verb=Identify returns HTTP 200 with repositoryName "UC Research Repository", repositoryIdentifier ir.canterbury.ac.nz,
  adminEmail eservices@libr.canterbury.ac.nz and earliestDatestamp 2007-05-08. verb=ListMetadataFormats
  advertises didl, dim, etdms, marc, mets, mods, oai_dc, ore, qdc, rdf, rioxx, uketd_dc and xoai. Host,
  administrative contact and identifier namespace are all the institution''s; the OAI-PMH protocol is
  OpenArchives'' and no contract is claimed for it here.'
humanURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Metadata
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Authentication
  url: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-canterbury-conformance.yml