# Curtin University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/curtin/  
**Website:** https://www.curtin.edu.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Curtin University is a public research university based in Perth, Western Australia, and is ranked #174 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Curtin operates an institutional research repository (espace, built on Ex Libris Primo/Esploro), contributes datasets to the national Research Data Australia registry, and maintains several department-level open-source GitHub organizations. As of this review Curtin does not publish a centralized public developer portal or a documented general-purpose API program; the developer footprint is limited to library/repository discovery platforms and research-data harvesting interfaces operated through third-party platforms.

## Kin Score — 16.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Curtin espace Institutional Repository** — espace is Curtin University's open-access institutional repository of research publications and higher-degree-by-research theses, delivered on the Ex Libris Primo/Esploro discov...
- **Curtin Research Data (via Research Data Australia)** — Curtin University publishes research data collection records through the national Research Data Australia (RDA) registry operated by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)....

## Security (1)

- **Curtin Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Curtin Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, Library, Australia

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