# UWA Research Repository OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/uwa/oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Western Australia — https://apis.io/providers/uwa/  
**Base URL:** https://api.research-repository.uwa.edu.au/ws/oai  
**Documentation:** https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/

UWA Research Repository OAI-PMH is one of 5 APIs that [University of Western Australia](https://apis.io/providers/uwa/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Research Data, Metadata, Harvesting, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, and API documentation.

An open, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint operated by UWA on its own host. All six protocol verbs returned 200 on 2026-08-30 with no credential presented. Identify reports adminEmail help-repository@uwa.edu.au and an earliestDatestamp of 2014-08-20; ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc, qdc, mods, xmetadiss and nl_didl; ListSets enumerates 167 sets covering persons, publications by year from 1946 to 2026, datasets, and an openaire set, with every response schema-located against the OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile. The repository software underneath is Elsevier Pure, but OAI-PMH is an open standard rather than a vendor contract, the host is UWA's own registrable domain, and the administrative contact is a UWA address — so this is recorded as institution-operated. It is the only UWA API surface anyone can call today without an account.

## Operations (1)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/oai` | OAI-PMH 2.0 request |

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/openapi/uwa-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **x-openapi-original** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/uwa-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/examples/
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/uwa-vocabulary.yml
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/conformance/uwa-conformance.yml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/authentication/uwa-authentication.yml
- **Documentation** — http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/uwa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Western Australia APIs (4)

- [UWA Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/uwa/identity-federation/)
- [UWA API Gateway and Developer Portal (Azure API Management)](https://apis.io/apis/uwa/developer-portal/)
- [UWA Profiles and Research Repository (Elsevier Pure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/uwa/research-repository/)
- [UWA Library OneSearch (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/uwa/library-catalog/)

## Tags

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

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