# Open Access Repository (Figshare tenancy)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/open-access-repository-figshare/  
**Provider:** Victoria University of Wellington — https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/  
**Base URL:** https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/  
**Documentation:** https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/special-collections/open-access-institutional-repository

Open Access Repository (Figshare tenancy) is one of 10 APIs that [Victoria University of Wellington](https://apis.io/providers/victoria-university-of-wellington/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, DataCite, and Figshare. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The university's Open Access institutional repository is a Figshare portal running on the institution's own vanity domain openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to figshare.com, with wellington.figshare.com as the platform address. The repository, its records, its DOIs and its OAI-PMH set are the institution's; the interface is Figshare's and is shared with every other Figshare customer. Harvestable via OAI-PMH 2.0 at Figshare's shared endpoint scoped to setSpec portal_771 (verified live 2026-08-30, returning VUW article identifiers). DOIs are minted under DataCite repository account FIGSHARE.VUW, active since 2021-06-10, 4,301 DOIs registered. The vanity host answers a non-browser request with HTTP 202 and x-amzn-waf-action "challenge" — a bot challenge, not an outage. FIGSHARE'S GENERIC v2 REST CONTRACT IS DELIBERATELY NOT SAVED IN THIS REPOSITORY; it belongs to Figshare, and it was previously attributed here in error. The VUW Library did write its own httpd proxy for this set — github.com/VUW-Library/figshare-oaipmh-proxy — which is genuine institutional engineering, but it is not publicly deployed at a discoverable address.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/special-collections/open-access-institutional-repository
- **x-oai-pmh** — https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=portal_771
- **x-datacite-repository** — https://api.datacite.org/clients/figshare.vuw
- **x-vendor** — https://github.com/api-evangelist/figshare

## Other Victoria University of Wellington APIs (9)

- [Website Global Object](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/website-global-object/)
- [Shibboleth Identity Provider (Tuakiri / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/identity-federation/)
- [Institutional Repository (self-hosted DSpace)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/institutional-repository/)
- [Te Waharoa Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/te-waharoa-discovery/)
- [Nuku Learning Management (Instructure Canvas tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/nuku-canvas-lms/)
- [Research Information System (Symplectic Elements tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/symplectic-elements/)
- [Enterprise Single Sign-On (WSO2 Identity Server)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/enterprise-sso-wso2/)
- [Student Records (Ellucian Banner Self-Service tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/student-records-banner/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant (production browser sign-on)](https://apis.io/apis/victoria-university-of-wellington/entra-id-federation/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, DataCite, Figshare, Tenant

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