# Australian National University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/anu/  
**Website:** https://www.anu.edu.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 50.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+32.3 from 17.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 38.0 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 79.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve API key — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) API** — 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 h...
- **QRNG@ANU Legacy JSON API** — 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 noti...
- **ANU Open Research OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for ANU's Open Research institutional repository. Confirmed live: repositoryName "Open Research", repositoryIdentifier openresearch-rep...
- **ANU Open Research DSpace REST API** — 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...
- **ANU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)** — 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, O...
- **ANU Research Portal Plus (Elsevier Pure) — TENANT** — 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 ...

## Security (2)

- **Anu Authentication** — apiKey/none/saml2 · 5 schemes
- **Anu Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Anu Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Research, Australia, Group of Eight, Research Repository, Identity Federation, Open Access, Quantum, Random Numbers, OAI-PMH

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/anu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.