Deakin University

Deakin University is a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool and Melbourne, ranked #197 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most universities, Deakin operates an integration-heavy IT estate (its SSO is a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider) but does not publish a public, self-service developer API portal. Its confirmed public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in research infrastructure: the Deakin Research Online (DRO) repository runs on figshare (which exposes a public OAI-PMH and REST API), a public Data Portal for sharing research datasets, and an active GitHub organization. Most catalogued surfaces below are third-party-hosted or gated rather than first-party, documented APIs.

Deakin University publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including altmetric API, articles API, authors API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Data.

The Deakin University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Deakin University’s developer surface includes authentication, GitHub presence, and 11 more developer resources.

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44.1/100 developing ▼ -5.3 Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

11 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen DataAustralia

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Composite quality — 44.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 11

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Deakin Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Deakin Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Deakin Agentic Access

157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

157 operations · 81 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

ProductPage

ProductPage

Source (apis.yml)

aid: deakin
name: Deakin University
description: 'Deakin University is a public research university in Victoria, Australia, with campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool
  and Melbourne, ranked #197 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most universities, Deakin operates an integration-heavy
  IT estate (its SSO is a Shibboleth/SAML2 identity provider) but does not publish a public, self-service developer API portal.
  Its confirmed public, machine-readable footprint is concentrated in research infrastructure: the Deakin Research Online
  (DRO) repository runs on figshare (which exposes a public OAI-PMH and REST API), a public Data Portal for sharing research
  datasets, and an active GitHub organization. Most catalogued surfaces below are third-party-hosted or gated rather than
  first-party, documented APIs.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/deakin.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/deakin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: deakin:dro-oai
  name: Deakin Research Online (DRO) OAI-PMH
  description: Deakin Research Online is the university's research repository, now hosted on the figshare platform. It exposes
    research-output metadata for harvesting via the OAI-PMH protocol. The DRO host issues a bot-challenge response to automated
    clients; the underlying figshare OAI-PMH service is publicly reachable.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://info.figshare.com/user-guide/how-to-use-figshares-oai-pmh-service/
- aid: deakin:deakin-altmetric-api
  name: Deakin University altmetric API
  description: The altmetric API from Deakin University — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - altmetric
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-altmetric-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-articles-api
  name: Deakin University articles API
  description: The articles API from Deakin University — 34 operation(s) for articles.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-authors-api
  name: Deakin University authors API
  description: The authors API from Deakin University — 2 operation(s) for authors.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - authors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-authors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-collections-api
  name: Deakin University collections API
  description: The collections API from Deakin University — 21 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-institutions-api
  name: Deakin University institutions API
  description: The institutions API from Deakin University — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - institutions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-institutions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-oauth-api
  name: Deakin University oauth API
  description: The oauth API from Deakin University — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - oauth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-oauth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-other-api
  name: Deakin University other API
  description: The other API from Deakin University — 7 operation(s) for other.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - other
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-other-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-profiles-api
  name: Deakin University profiles API
  description: The profiles API from Deakin University — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - profiles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-profiles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-projects-api
  name: Deakin University projects API
  description: The projects API from Deakin University — 17 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
- aid: deakin:deakin-symplectic-api
  name: Deakin University symplectic API
  description: The symplectic API from Deakin University — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.
  humanURL: https://dro.deakin.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - symplectic
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/deakin-symplectic-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/deakin-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/deakin-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/deakin-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/deakin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/deakin-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/deakin-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/deakin-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/deakin-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/deakin-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/deakin-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.deakin.edu.au/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Deakin
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/deakin-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://signon.deakin.edu.au/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/deakin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/deakin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/deakin-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://dataportal.deakin.edu.au/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com