University of Sydney

Sydney eScholarship Repository (institutional repository, OAI-PMH)

Sydney eScholarship is the university's own institutional repository, running on the university-owned usyd.edu.au domain (usyd.edu.au redirects to www.sydney.edu.au). It is a registered DataCite repository client — ARDCX.USYD, "Sydney eScholarship", registered 2020, 2,146 DOIs minted, administered from @sydney.edu.au addresses — which settles the operator question as the institution rather than a vendor. It documents a standard OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface at /oai/request, but on 2026-08-19 that endpoint and every other path on the host returned HTTP 403 behind Cloudflare bot management to default, browser and XML-accepting clients alike; robots.txt on the same host returned 200 and permits /handle/2123/ with a 30-second crawl delay, so the host is live and bot-blocked, not dead. OAI-PMH conformance is therefore recorded as claimed and unverified.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://www.library.sydney.edu.au/support/publishing/publishing-research-data

Other Resources

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Conformance

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sydney/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-sydney-education-standards.yml

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Registry

https://api.datacite.org/clients/ardcx.usyd

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-sydney:escholarship-repository
name: Sydney eScholarship Repository (institutional repository, OAI-PMH)
x-operator: institution
x-surface-class: ResearchRepository
description: Sydney eScholarship is the university's own institutional repository, running on the university-owned
  usyd.edu.au domain (usyd.edu.au redirects to www.sydney.edu.au). It is a registered DataCite repository
  client — ARDCX.USYD, "Sydney eScholarship", registered 2020, 2,146 DOIs minted, administered from @sydney.edu.au
  addresses — which settles the operator question as the institution rather than a vendor. It documents
  a standard OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface at /oai/request, but on 2026-08-19 that endpoint and every
  other path on the host returned HTTP 403 behind Cloudflare bot management to default, browser and XML-accepting
  clients alike; robots.txt on the same host returned 200 and permits /handle/2123/ with a 30-second crawl
  delay, so the host is live and bot-blocked, not dead. OAI-PMH conformance is therefore recorded as claimed
  and unverified.
humanURL: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/
baseURL: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/oai/request
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DataCite
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Metadata
- Bot Blocked
tags_raw:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DataCite
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Metadata
- Bot-Blocked
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.library.sydney.edu.au/support/publishing/publishing-research-data
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-sydney-education-standards.yml
- type: Registry
  url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/ardcx.usyd