Harbin Institute of Technology

aid: harbin-institute-of-technology
name: Harbin Institute of Technology
x-type: university
x-category: Technical University
description: 'Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT, 哈尔滨工业大学) is a public technical research university in Harbin, Heilongjiang,
  China, founded in 1920, administered by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and a member of the C9 League,
  with additional campuses at Weihai and Shenzhen. HIT operates NO public developer programme, no API documentation, no developer
  portal and no API key issuance of any kind, and this profile should be read as recording that absence. Its one institution-operated
  machine-readable surface is a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at idp.hit.edu.cn, scoped to hit.edu.cn — genuinely
  HIT''s own engineering, though the metadata document it publishes is the unedited Shibboleth template and expired in 2020.
  Every other machine-readable surface is a tenancy on Elsevier Pure running under HIT''s own hostname (scholar.hit.edu.cn):
  a live and anonymously harvestable OAI-PMH endpoint carrying the OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile, RSS feeds of publications and
  researcher profiles, and a Pure web services API that is credential-gated and whose contract belongs to Elsevier, not to
  HIT. The data in those surfaces is HIT''s; the contracts are not.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: none
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: No provider-operated API — institution-operated identity infrastructure plus vendor tenancies
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  note: Corrected 2026-09-01. The prior block was derived from an Elsevier Pure OpenAPI document held in this repo and asserted
    a commercial, callable SaaS host. That contract was Elsevier's and has been removed; HIT operates no callable API of its
    own.
accessModel:
  pricing: not-applicable
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: No developer programme — no signup, no key, no plan
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Internal
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/harbin-institute-of-technology.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harbin-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- China
- Technical University
- C9 League
- Research
- Scholarly
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: tenant_only
  detail: No institution-authored API contract exists to capture. Every machine-readable DATA surface HIT exposes is an Elsevier
    Pure tenancy on HIT's own hostname — the OAI-PMH endpoint, the RSS feeds and the Pure web services API all belong to one
    Pure deployment at scholar.hit.edu.cn whose Identify response names purehosted@elsevier.com as administrator and whose
    OpenAPI document is titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com. HIT's one genuinely institution-operated
    machine-readable artifact is its Shibboleth SAML IdP metadata, which is identity infrastructure rather than an API and
    is recorded as such. Probing found no course catalog API (jwc.hit.edu.cn, the academic affairs site, is administratively
    DISABLED and serves a notice page), no open data portal (data.hit.edu.cn does not resolve), no library catalog API, no
    api./open./oapi. host, no security.txt, no robots.txt and no llms.txt. Searching was done on both the Chinese and English
    surfaces; this is not a language barrier.
  evidence:
  - url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/ws/api/openapi.json
    status: 200
    detail: Served anonymously but titled "Pure API", contact pure-support@elsevier.com, 827 paths — Elsevier's contract,
      not HIT's.
  - url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/ws/api/research-outputs?size=1
    status: 401
    detail: Pure data paths are credential-gated.
  - url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    detail: 'Live OAI-PMH, but repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", adminEmail purehosted@elsevier.com. Intermittently reachable
      from outside China: 200 on 5 of 9 attempts, connection timeout otherwise, never an HTTP error.'
  - url: https://idp.hit.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    detail: HIT's own SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, scope hit.edu.cn — the one institution-operated machine-readable surface found.
  - url: https://jwc.hit.edu.cn/
    status: 200
    detail: Soft-200. Academic affairs (教务处) site body reads "站点 教务处 已禁用" — site disabled. No course catalog surface.
  - url: https://data.hit.edu.cn/
    status: 0
    detail: DNS does not resolve. No open data portal.
  - url: https://www.hit.edu.cn/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
    detail: No security.txt.
  - url: dns:scholar.hit.edu.cn
    status: 200
    detail: 'CNAME to purealb-1397755226.cn-northwest-1.elb.amazonaws.com.cn — an Elsevier Pure AWS China load balancer. Note
      for the cohort detector: AWS ELB hostnames are UNIQUE PER DEPLOYMENT, so a cohort-reuse rule ("a host more than one
      institution points at") can never fire on them. The vendor signal is the product prefix "purealb-", not the full hostname.'
apis:
- aid: harbin-institute-of-technology:hit-shibboleth-idp
  name: HIT Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
  x-operator: institution
  x-surface-class: IdentityFederation
  description: 'Harbin Institute of Technology''s own Shibboleth identity provider, self-hosted on HIT''s registrable domain
    and asserting the scope hit.edu.cn. Publishes a SAML 2.0 EntityDescriptor anonymously at /idp/shibboleth with IDPSSODescriptor
    and AttributeAuthorityDescriptor roles, six key descriptors, and SSO/SLO endpoints over HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign
    and SOAP. This is HIT''s own engineering rather than a vendor contract running under HIT''s name, and it is the strongest
    institution-operated machine-readable surface in this profile. Caveat, recorded rather than hidden: the served document
    is the unedited Shibboleth distribution template — it retains the stock "This is example metadata only" banner and an
    mdui:DisplayName of "A Name for the IdP at idp.hit.edu.cn" — and its validUntil is 2020-02-14, so a conforming SAML consumer
    would reject it as expired. The IdP is live; its published descriptor is stale. HIT does not appear in eduGAIN; the federation
    context is domestic (CARSI/CERNET).'
  humanURL: https://idp.hit.edu.cn/
  baseURL: https://idp.hit.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
  entityID: https://idp.hit.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
  x-dns:
    record: A
    value: 219.217.226.63
    detail: Direct A record on HIT campus address space (CERNET, Harbin) with NO vendor CNAME — corroborating that this IdP
      is HIT-operated infrastructure rather than a hosted tenancy. Contrast scholar.hit.edu.cn, which CNAMEs to an Elsevier
      AWS load balancer.
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://idp.hit.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/harbin-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: harbin-institute-of-technology:hit-pure-oai-pmh
  name: HIT Research Portal OAI-PMH Endpoint
  x-operator: tenant
  x-surface-class: ResearchRepository
  x-tenancy:
    vendor: Elsevier
    product: Pure
    vendor_evidence: 'OAI-PMH Identify: repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", adminEmail purehosted@elsevier.com'
    dns_evidence: scholar.hit.edu.cn is a CNAME to purealb-1397755226.cn-northwest-1.elb.amazonaws.com.cn — an AWS China (Ningxia)
      load balancer named "purealb". HIT's hostname is a vanity CNAME onto Elsevier's hosted Pure infrastructure.
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for HIT''s research outputs, persons and datasets, on HIT''s own hostname
    and anonymously callable — a ListRecords over publications:all returned 358,884 bytes of oai_dc records with no credential.
    Serves six metadata prefixes (mods, mods_swepub, oai_dc, xmetadiss, qdc, nl_didl) across 99 sets, and declares the OpenAIRE
    Guidelines for CRIS Managers CERIF-XML 1.2 profile with a dedicated openaire set. RECORDED AS A TENANCY, NOT AS HIT''S
    CONTRACT: the Identify response names the repository "Pure OAI Repository" and its administrator purehosted@elsevier.com,
    so the software and the hosting are Elsevier''s. The data and the deployment are HIT''s. Note the earliestDatestamp of
    2025-10-30 — this Pure instance is less than a year old. Reachability from outside China is intermittent at the connection
    layer; when it connects it always returns 200 with a full body.'
  humanURL: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/
  baseURL: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/ws/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Repository
  - Scholarly
  - Harvesting
  - Pure
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/harbin-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- aid: harbin-institute-of-technology:hit-pure-rss
  name: HIT Research Portal RSS Feeds
  x-operator: tenant
  x-surface-class: ResearchRepository
  x-tenancy:
    vendor: Elsevier
    product: Pure
  description: RSS 2.0 feeds with Dublin Core extensions emitted by HIT's Elsevier Pure research portal. The publications
    feed returns the latest research outputs; the persons feed lists researcher profiles. Both verified live and returning
    items anonymously. The feed format and the portal are Pure's; the content is HIT's.
  humanURL: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/
  baseURL: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/publications/?format=rss
  tags:
  - RSS
  - Feed
  - Scholarly
  - Research
  - Pure
  properties:
  - type: BlogRSS
    url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/publications/?format=rss
  - type: x-feed-persons
    url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/persons/?format=rss
- aid: harbin-institute-of-technology:elsevier-pure-tenancy
  name: Elsevier Pure Web Services API — HIT Tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  x-surface-class: ResearchRepository
  x-contract-owner: elsevier
  x-tenancy:
    vendor: Elsevier
    product: Pure
    version: 5.36.2-1
    vendor_evidence: info.title "Pure API"; info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com; 827 paths
    dns_evidence: scholar.hit.edu.cn CNAMEs to purealb-1397755226.cn-northwest-1.elb.amazonaws.com.cn (AWS cn-northwest-1).
      Third independent confirmation of the tenancy, alongside the OpenAPI contact address and the OAI-PMH admin address.
  description: HIT's tenancy on the Elsevier Pure web services API, deployed at scholar.hit.edu.cn/ws/api. THE RELATIONSHIP
    IS RECORDED HERE; THE CONTRACT IS DELIBERATELY NOT SAVED IN THIS REPO. The live document at /ws/api/openapi.json is titled
    "Pure API", carries contact pure-support@elsevier.com, declares a relative server of /ws/api and describes 827 paths —
    it is Elsevier's product specification, identical in substance across every Pure customer, and it belongs against Elsevier's
    own repo, not HIT's. Data paths are credential-gated (HTTP 401, Elsevier-issued api-key); there is no HIT-facing process
    to request one. This entry exists so the institutional fact survives without crediting HIT for Elsevier's engineering.
  humanURL: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/
  baseURL: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Pure
  - Vendor Tenancy
  - Scholarly
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/
  - type: x-authentication
    url: authentication/harbin-institute-of-technology-authentication.yml
- aid: harbin-institute-of-technology:ror-registration
  name: ROR Registration — Harbin Institute of Technology
  x-operator: registry
  x-surface-class: IdentifierRegistry
  description: HIT is registered in the Research Organization Registry with ROR ID 01yqg2h08, carrying the names Harbin Institute
    of Technology, 哈尔滨工业大学 and the acronym HIT, and linking to www.hit.edu.cn. A membership fact about the institution, recorded
    as such. The registry's own contract is ROR's and is not saved here. Probing found NO corresponding DataCite provider
    or repository record and NO Crossref member record for HIT — both registries return zero results for Harbin — so no DOI-registration
    membership is claimed.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/01yqg2h08
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/01yqg2h08
  tags:
  - Registry
  - ROR
  - Identifiers
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://ror.org/01yqg2h08
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://en.hit.edu.cn/
- type: WebsiteChinese
  url: https://www.hit.edu.cn/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://scholar.hit.edu.cn/en/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.hit.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/harbin-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/harbin-institute-of-technology-authentication.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/harbin-institute-of-technology-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/harbin-institute-of-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: News
  url: https://today.hit.edu.cn/
- type: Library
  url: https://lib.hit.edu.cn/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/HITSZ-HLT
  name: Harbin Institute of Technology, Human Language Technology (HITSZ-HLT)
  note: A research-group organisation at the HIT Shenzhen campus, 59 public repositories. Recorded honestly as a lab org —
    HIT operates no institution-wide GitHub organisation.
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/harbin-institute-of-technology/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/harbin-institute-of-technology-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/harbin-institute-of-technology-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/harbin-institute-of-technology-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com