Australian National University

aid: anu
name: Australian National University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university in Canberra and a member of the Group
  of Eight, ranked #27 in the QS World University Rankings order used by this cohort. Like almost every university, ANU is
  a federation of buyers rather than an API producer: it operates no central developer portal, no institutional API gateway
  (api.anu.edu.au and developer.anu.edu.au do not resolve), and publishes no OpenAPI for anything. What it does operate is
  small, real and genuinely its own — the ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) service serving live quantum random numbers from the ANU
  Quantum Optics group, a deprecated predecessor endpoint at qrng.anu.edu.au throttled to one request per minute, a self-hosted
  DSpace 7.6.7 institutional repository exposing a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 interface across twelve metadata formats plus a
  HAL+JSON REST API, and a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the Australian Access Federation and interfederated
  through eduGAIN. ANU is a DataCite member in its own right, holding DOI prefix 10.25911 with 25,559 registered DOIs. Its
  research information portal, by contrast, is an Elsevier Pure tenancy (researchportalplus.anu.edu.au CNAMEs to elsevierpure.com)
  — ANU''s data on Elsevier''s contract, recorded here as a tenant relationship and deliberately not credited as ANU engineering.
  Course, timetable and student systems are gated; the widely used ANU timetable tool is student-built by the Computer Science
  Students'' Association on a non-ANU domain and is not endorsed on ANU''s own timetabling pages.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Self-serve API key
  confidence: high
  source:
  - authentication
  - plans
  - rate-limits
  generated: '2026-08-19'
  method: probed
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/anu.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Australia
- Group of Eight
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- Open Access
- Quantum
- Random Numbers
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: institution_operated_surfaces_verified
  detail: 'Five institution-operated surfaces and one tenant relationship were settled by live probe on 2026-08-19, before
    anything was saved. The operator axis is the whole finding here: ANU''s research portal is an Elsevier Pure tenancy and
    is recorded as `tenant`, never as an ANU contract. The surfaces that ARE ANU''s are small — two quantum RNG endpoints
    (one deprecated), an OAI-PMH provider, a DSpace REST API and a SAML identity provider — and none of them ships an OpenAPI,
    so every spec in openapi/ is marked `derived` or `probed` and attributed to API Evangelist, not to ANU. Deliberate exclusions,
    each with a reason: NCI (nci.org.au) is a national facility ANU collaborates in rather than operates, so its HPC surfaces
    are not claimed here; timetable.cssa.club is a student-built scrape on a non-institutional domain with no endorsement
    found on ANU''s own timetabling pages, so it is not credited even as a tenant; Wattle (Moodle) and the library discovery
    layer are behind authentication and are cited only as conformance evidence, not listed as consumable APIs. Absences confirmed
    by negative probe rather than assumed: no developer portal, no API gateway, no OIDC discovery, no llms.txt, no security.txt,
    no status page, no changelog.'
  generated: '2026-08-19'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/?length=4&type=uint8
    status: 403
    note: Live AWS gateway, rejects without x-api-key. Institution-operated surface confirmed.
  - url: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php?length=4&type=uint8
    status: 200
    note: Returned {"type":"uint8","length":4,"data":[74,205,98,159],"success":true}.
  - url: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, repositoryName "Open Research", 12 metadata formats.
  - url: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api
    status: 200
    note: application/hal+json, dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.7", self-hosted on ANU IP 130.56.67.40.
  - url: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    note: SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, entityID https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, scope anu.edu.au.
  - url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
    status: 200
    note: Three ANU entityIDs present in the Australian Access Federation aggregate.
  - url: https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/
    status: 200
    note: 'TENANT. CNAME anu2-portal.elsevierpure.com; response header x-product: Pure Portal.'
  - url: https://wattlecourses.anu.edu.au/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
    note: Live LTI 1.3 JWKS on ANU's self-hosted Moodle.
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.25911
    status: 200
    note: ANU DataCite provider `anu`, client `anu.repo`, 25,559 DOIs.
  - url: https://api.anu.edu.au/
    status: 0
    note: Negative probe. No central API gateway; host does not resolve.
  - url: https://developer.anu.edu.au/
    status: 0
    note: Negative probe. No developer portal; host does not resolve.
  - url: https://www.anu.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 404
    note: Negative probe. No agent-directed content policy.
  - url: https://www.anu.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
    note: Negative probe. No RFC 9116 security contact.
  - url: https://www.anu.edu.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 404
    note: Negative probe. No OIDC discovery document.
  - url: https://services.anu.edu.au/information-technology/it-service-status
    status: 404
    note: Negative probe. No status page found on the IT services portal.
apis:
- aid: anu:quantum-numbers
  name: ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) API
  description: ANU's current quantum random number service, operated by the ANU Quantum Optics group on ANU's own AWS account
    under ANU's own domain. Returns arrays of uint8, uint16, hex8 or hex16 values, length 1-1024, with a block-size parameter
    for the hexadecimal types. A free API key is issued self-serve and sent as the x-api-key header; the gateway returns 403
    {"message":"Forbidden"} without one. ANU publishes no OpenAPI — the specification pointed at below is derived by API Evangelist
    from ANU's own documented parameter table and call form.
  humanURL: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au
  tags:
  - Quantum
  - Random Numbers
  - Research
  - JSON
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: api.quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au is under anu.edu.au; documentation, self-serve signup and the contact
    address qrng@anu.edu.au are all ANU's. No vendor branding anywhere on the surface.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anu-quantum-numbers-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anu-quantum-numbers-response-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/anu-quantum-numbers-hex16-example.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/anu-authentication.yml
- aid: anu:qrng-legacy
  name: QRNG@ANU Legacy JSON API
  description: The original ANU quantum random number endpoint, served from ANU's own web host. No authentication, and throttled
    to one request per minute. ANU has published a deprecation notice on the documentation page — "The old service will be
    scaled back and eventually retired" — but names no sunset date and emits no Deprecation or Sunset header. The throttle
    is signalled with HTTP 200 and a plain-text sentence rather than a 429, so clients must branch on Content-Type, not status
    code.
  humanURL: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
  baseURL: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php
  tags:
  - Quantum
  - Random Numbers
  - Deprecated
  - JSON
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: qrng.anu.edu.au resolves to 150.203.48.55, inside ANU's own address space.
  x-lifecycle: deprecated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anu-qrng-legacy-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/anu-qrng-legacy-uint8-example.json
  - type: Deprecation
    url: lifecycle/anu-lifecycle.yml
- aid: anu:openresearch-oai
  name: ANU Open Research OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for ANU''s Open Research institutional repository. Confirmed live:
    repositoryName "Open Research", repositoryIdentifier openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au, earliest datestamp 2004-01-01,
    twelve metadata formats (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms, uketd_dc). Records carry ORCID
    identifiers and DOIs under ANU''s own DataCite prefix 10.25911. The repository software is open-source DSpace 7.6.7, but
    ANU self-hosts the instance on ANU infrastructure and the protocol is an open community standard — this is not a SaaS
    tenancy, and no other institution''s records are served here.'
  humanURL: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
  baseURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au CNAMEs to dspace-prod.anu.edu.au at 130.56.67.40, ANU address space.
    Identify adminEmail is an anu.edu.au address.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/open-research-collections
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anu-open-research-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/anu-open-research-oai-identify-example.xml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/anu-conformance.yml
- aid: anu:openresearch-rest
  name: ANU Open Research DSpace REST API
  description: 'The HAL+JSON REST API of ANU''s self-hosted DSpace 7.6.7 repository, reachable anonymously at /server/api
    for the root and discovery resources; /server/api/core/items returns 401, so the surface is genuinely access-controlled
    rather than uniformly open. Recorded as an ANU-operated surface because ANU runs the instance on its own infrastructure,
    but no specification is saved for it: the contract shape is DSpace''s upstream design, not ANU engineering, and saving
    a generic DSpace spec under an institution''s slug is precisely the misattribution this profile exists to avoid.'
  humanURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - REST
  - HAL
  - DSpace
  - Research
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Self-hosted open-source software on ANU infrastructure under ANU's domain. Contract design is upstream
    DSpace's; no spec saved here for that reason.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api
- aid: anu:identity-federation
  name: ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
  description: ANU's institutional identity provider, publishing machine-readable SAML 2.0 metadata at a stable URL. entityID
    https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope anu.edu.au, OrganizationDisplayName "Australian National University",
    with SSO endpoints for HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect and SOAP/ECP bindings plus a SOAP artifact resolution service and an attribute
    authority. Registered in the Australian Access Federation aggregate (359 entities) alongside two ANU service providers,
    wattlecourses.anu.edu.au and mdl-stage.anu.edu.au, and interfederated internationally through eduGAIN. This is institution-operated
    by definition and is the most consequential machine-readable surface ANU runs — it is also the class of surface that is
    almost never catalogued.
  humanURL: https://services.anu.edu.au/information-technology
  baseURL: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - AAF
  - eduGAIN
  - Single Sign-On
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Metadata is served from an anu.edu.au host and self-asserts ANU as the organization. Present in the
    AAF federation aggregate under ANU's own entityID.
  x-developer-usable: false
  x-developer-note: An end-user login federation, not a developer authorization surface. There is no client registration path,
    no token endpoint and no consent screen an outside developer could integrate against.
  properties:
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/anu-idp-saml-entity-descriptor-example.xml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/anu-conformance.yml
  - type: Federation
    url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- aid: anu:research-portal-pure
  name: ANU Research Portal Plus (Elsevier Pure) — TENANT
  description: 'ANU''s research information portal and public researcher/output profiles, running on Elsevier Pure. This is
    a genuine institutional fact and one of the few programmable research surfaces ANU has, so the relationship is recorded
    — but it is recorded as a TENANCY, not as an ANU API. The data is ANU''s; the contract, the API design, the Pure Web Service
    and the Fingerprint Engine are Elsevier''s. No Pure specification is saved in this repository and none of Elsevier''s
    engineering is scored as ANU''s. Probed: the conventional Pure web-service path /ws/api returns 404 on this deployment,
    so no publicly reachable Pure API is exposed here even for the tenant.'
  humanURL: https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - Elsevier Pure
  - Tenant
  - Research Outputs
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: 'researchportalplus.anu.edu.au CNAMEs to anu2-portal.elsevierpure.com -> apac.prod.elsevierpure.com.
    Response header "x-product: Pure Portal". Page markup cites Elsevier Fingerprint Engine and elsevier.responsibledisclosure.com.'
  x-vendor: Elsevier Pure
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- type: Documentation
  url: https://qrng.anu.edu.au/contact/api-documentation/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/AustralianNationalUniversity
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ANUcybernetics
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-australian-national-university/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/disclaimer
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/privacy
- type: Copyright
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/copyright
- type: Support
  url: https://services.anu.edu.au/information-technology
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/news
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://openresearch.anu.edu.au/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.anu.edu.au/privacy/training-and-resources/generative-ai-and-data-governance
- type: AITooling
  url: https://libguides.anu.edu.au/generative-ai
- type: Policies
  url: https://policies.anu.edu.au/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/anu-quantum-numbers-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/anu-quantum-numbers-response-schema.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/anu-qrng-legacy-uint8-example.json
- type: Rules
  url: rules/anu-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/anu-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/anu-context.jsonld
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/anu-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/anu-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/anu-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/anu-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/anu-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/anu-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/anu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/anu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/anu-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
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