# Research Online (Figshare tenancy)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/research-online-figshare/  
**Provider:** University of Wollongong — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-wollongong/  
**Documentation:** https://ro.uow.edu.au/

Research Online (Figshare tenancy) is one of 8 APIs that [University of Wollongong](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-wollongong/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Open Access, Figshare, DOI, and Institutional Repository. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Research Online is UOW's open access institutional repository, and since its 2025 platform migration it is a Figshare tenancy, not the bepress Digital Commons instance the June 2026 profile recorded. Evidence is unambiguous: ro.uow.edu.au CNAMEs to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com; requests to it are answered by an AWS WAF challenge (HTTP 202, x-amzn-waf-action: challenge) whose body sets awsWafCookieDomainList = ['figshare.com']; and the Figshare public API returns UOW items with url_public_html on ro.uow.edu.au, group_id 57528 and DOIs under the prefix 10.71747, which DataCite lists against repository client uow.figshare. The data, the DOI prefix and the branded portal are UOW's; the contract is Figshare's and is not saved here. The OAI-PMH endpoint the previous profile claimed at /do/oai/ was a bepress path and no OAI response could be confirmed on the current platform — every path on the host, including /oai and /do/oai/, returns the same 202 WAF challenge.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://uow.libguides.com/elements/research-online
- **Vendor** — https://knowledge.figshare.com/

## Other University of Wollongong APIs (7)

- [UOW Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/idp-saml-metadata/)
- [UOW Scholars (Symplectic Elements / Discovery tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/uow-scholars-symplectic/)
- [UOW Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/library-primo-alma/)
- [UOW Handbook course catalog API (undocumented)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/course-handbook-api/)
- [DataCite membership (repository uow.figshare)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref membership (University of Wollongong Library, member 5587)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR registration (00jtmb277)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-wollongong/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Open Access, Figshare, DOI, Institutional Repository

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