University of Waikato

Research Commons DSpace REST API

DSpace 7.6.5 REST API backing Research Commons, giving programmatic access to communities, collections, items, bitstreams and discovery search over the university's theses and research outputs. Verified live 2026-09-01: the API root returns HTTP 200 with dspaceName "Research Commons", dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5" and a HAL document advertising 65 links. No ORCID endpoints are exposed. The contract is DSpace's — the same REST contract every DSpace 7 deployment ships — so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution; what is Waikato's is the deployment, the host and the content.

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Documentation
https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api

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Examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-waikato/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-waikato:research-commons-rest
name: Research Commons DSpace REST API
x-operator: institution
description: 'DSpace 7.6.5 REST API backing Research Commons, giving programmatic access to communities,
  collections, items, bitstreams and discovery search over the university''s theses and research outputs.
  Verified live 2026-09-01: the API root returns HTTP 200 with dspaceName "Research Commons", dspaceVersion
  "DSpace 7.6.5" and a HAL document advertising 65 links. No ORCID endpoints are exposed. The contract
  is DSpace''s — the same REST contract every DSpace 7 deployment ships — so no OpenAPI is saved under
  this institution; what is Waikato''s is the deployment, the host and the content.'
humanURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
tags:
- Repository
- DSpace
- Research
- Open Access
- Scholarly
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/server/api
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-waikato-protocol-endpoints-example.json