# UWSpace DSpace REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-waterloo/uwspace-dspace-rest-api/  
**Provider:** University of Waterloo — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-waterloo/  
**Base URL:** https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/

UWSpace DSpace REST API is one of 20 APIs that [University of Waterloo](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-waterloo/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Institutional Repository, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

The REST backend of UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository, running DSpace 8.4 on a University of Waterloo Libraries host. The root document at /server/api returns a HAL index of the full DSpace resource graph — communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery, submission and authn. Waterloo operates the deployment; the contract is DSpace's open-source API, shared by every DSpace installation, so no generic DSpace spec is saved under Waterloo's slug. The deployment is the institutional fact, and it is recorded here.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Website** — https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/
- **APIReference** — https://dspacemainprd01.lib.uwaterloo.ca/server/api
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract

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- [University of Waterloo AcademicOrganizations API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-waterloo/university-of-waterloo-academicorganizations-api/)
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## Tags

Research Repository, Institutional Repository, Open Access

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