# Minerva Access OAI-PMH 2.0 Endpoint

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/minerva-access-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Melbourne — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-melbourne/  
**Base URL:** https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/server/oai/request  
**Documentation:** https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/

Minerva Access OAI-PMH 2.0 Endpoint is one of 8 APIs that [University of Melbourne](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-melbourne/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Metadata, Harvesting, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting endpoint for Minerva Access, on the University's own host. Verified live 2026-08-19: verb=Identify, verb=ListMetadataFormats and verb=ListSets all returned HTTP 200 text/xml. Fourteen metadata formats are advertised, two of them built by the University — `umbl` (University of Melbourne Library) and `trove`, a crosswalk into the National Library of Australia's Trove under a `uom` namespace path. That local engineering is the evidence that this is the institution's surface and not just a package it installed. Content is identified with Handle System handles under the 11343 prefix; earliest datestamp 1995-11-30. Note deletedRecord policy is `transient`, which matters to incremental harvesters.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-melbourne/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-melbourne-minerva-access-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-melbourne/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-melbourne-oai-metadata-vocabulary.yml
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-melbourne/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-melbourne-oai-pmh-identify-example.xml

## Other University of Melbourne APIs (7)

- [Spatial Urban Data Observatory (SUDO) API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/sudo-spatial-urban-data-observatory/)
- [Minerva Access Repository REST API (DSpace 7.6)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/minerva-access-rest/)
- [Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/shibboleth-identity-provider/)
- [Melbourne Data — Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/melbourne-data-figshare/)
- [Open Spatial Data Portal (Esri ArcGIS Hub tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/spatial-open-data-arcgis-hub/)
- [University SSO — OpenID Connect Discovery (Okta tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/sso-okta/)
- [Internal API Management Programme (Boomi tenancy) — Gated](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-melbourne/boomi-internal-api-portal/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Metadata, Harvesting, Open Access

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