# OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/openuct-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Cape Town — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/  
**Base URL:** https://open.uct.ac.za/server/oai/request  
**Documentation:** https://open.uct.ac.za/

OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMH is one of 7 APIs that [University of Cape Town](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-cape-town/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

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

## Other University of Cape Town APIs (6)

- [DataFirst Microdata Catalog API (NADA)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/datafirst-nada/)
- [ZivaHub Open Data (Figshare API)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/zivahub-figshare/)
- [University of Cape Town articles API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-articles-api/)
- [University of Cape Town catalog API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-catalog-api/)
- [University of Cape Town collections API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-collections-api/)
- [University of Cape Town projects API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-cape-town/university-of-cape-town-projects-api/)

## Tags

Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Metadata, Open Access, Scholarly

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