University of Cape Town

OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH

OpenUCT is the University of Cape Town's open access institutional repository, launched in 2014 and built on DSpace. It preserves and openly shares UCT scholarly outputs including theses, dissertations, journal articles, reports, and open educational resources. The repository exposes a standards-compliant OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface supporting verbs such as Identify, ListRecords, and ListMetadataFormats.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://open.uct.ac.za/
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Authentication
https://open.uct.ac.za/server/oai/request?verb=Identify

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-cape-town:openuct-oai-pmh
name: OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
description: OpenUCT is the University of Cape Town's open access institutional repository, launched in
  2014 and built on DSpace. It preserves and openly shares UCT scholarly outputs including theses, dissertations,
  journal articles, reports, and open educational resources. The repository exposes a standards-compliant
  OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface supporting verbs such as Identify, ListRecords, and ListMetadataFormats.
humanURL: https://open.uct.ac.za/
baseURL: https://open.uct.ac.za/server/oai/request
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Metadata
- Open Access
- Scholarly
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.uct.ac.za/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://open.uct.ac.za/server/oai/request?verb=Identify