Western University

Scholarship@Western on Scholaris — DSpace REST API (tenant)

The HAL+JSON REST API of Western University's Open Repository, reachable anonymously at https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api. The root document self-reports dspaceName "Western University's Open Repository" and dspaceVersion "DSpace 8.4"; /server/api/core/communities returns 200 while /server/api/core/items returns 401, so the surface is genuinely access-controlled rather than uniformly open. Recorded as a tenant relationship: Western owns the content, the DOIs and the admin contact (rsclib@uwo.ca), but the host is Scholaris — the national shared DSpace 8 service operated by Scholars Portal for the Ontario Council of University Libraries — and the contract shape is upstream DSpace's. No specification is saved here for that reason; saving a generic DSpace spec under an institution's slug is precisely the misattribution this profile exists to avoid.

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Documentation
https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
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APIReference
https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: western:scholaris-rest
name: Scholarship@Western on Scholaris — DSpace REST API (tenant)
description: 'The HAL+JSON REST API of Western University''s Open Repository, reachable anonymously at
  https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api. The root document self-reports dspaceName "Western University''s
  Open Repository" and dspaceVersion "DSpace 8.4"; /server/api/core/communities returns 200 while /server/api/core/items
  returns 401, so the surface is genuinely access-controlled rather than uniformly open. Recorded as a
  tenant relationship: Western owns the content, the DOIs and the admin contact (rsclib@uwo.ca), but the
  host is Scholaris — the national shared DSpace 8 service operated by Scholars Portal for the Ontario
  Council of University Libraries — and the contract shape is upstream DSpace''s. No specification is
  saved here for that reason; saving a generic DSpace spec under an institution''s slug is precisely the
  misattribution this profile exists to avoid.'
humanURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
baseURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- REST
- HAL
- Open Access
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Institution-specific subdomain (uwo.scholaris.ca) on a vendor platform (scholaris.ca,
  operated by Scholars Portal / OCUL). Western's repository name and admin email; Scholars Portal's host,
  software and contract.
x-vendor: Scholars Portal (Ontario Council of University Libraries) — DSpace 8.4
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
- type: APIReference
  url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api