# Deakin University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/deakin/  
**Website:** https://www.deakin.edu.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

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.

## Kin Score — 38.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 70.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Deakin Research Online (DRO) OAI-PMH** — 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....
- **Deakin University altmetric API** — The altmetric API from Deakin University — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **Deakin University articles API** — The articles API from Deakin University — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **Deakin University authors API** — The authors API from Deakin University — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **Deakin University collections API** — The collections API from Deakin University — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **Deakin University institutions API** — The institutions API from Deakin University — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **Deakin University oauth API** — The oauth API from Deakin University — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Deakin University other API** — The other API from Deakin University — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **Deakin University profiles API** — The profiles API from Deakin University — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **Deakin University projects API** — The projects API from Deakin University — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **Deakin University symplectic API** — The symplectic API from Deakin University — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Deakin Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Deakin Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Deakin Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Deakin Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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