Hong Kong Baptist University

aid: hong-kong-baptist-university
name: Hong Kong Baptist University
description: 'Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded research university in Hong Kong SAR, ranked #253 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint centers on research information: the HKBU
  Scholars research portal is powered by Elsevier Pure, which exposes a documented Pure Web Service API (OpenAPI 3) for research
  outputs, persons, organisations, and related metadata. HKBU also operates a mobile-app backend and various library and digital
  scholarship platforms, though most of these are gated or undocumented for external developers and require institutional
  affiliation. There is no central institutional developer portal or organization-wide GitHub org; public code is published
  by individual research groups.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hong-kong-baptist-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Hong Kong
- Pure
- Research Information
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hong-kong-baptist-university:pure-research-api
  name: HKBU Scholars Pure Web Service API
  description: REST web service API for the HKBU Scholars research portal, powered by Elsevier Pure. Exposes the Pure data
    model (research outputs, persons, organisations, projects, activities, and related metadata) as a graph of interconnected
    resources over standard HTTP methods. The OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract is publicly retrievable and interactive RapiDoc documentation
    is served from the same host; data endpoints require an API key (return HTTP 401 without one).
  humanURL: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
  baseURL: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Research Information
  - Pure
  - Metadata
  - Scholarly
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/openapi.yaml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hong-kong-baptist-university-pure-research-api.yaml
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hong-kong-baptist-university-research-output-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hong-kong-baptist-university-person-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/hong-kong-baptist-university-organization-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/hong-kong-baptist-university-research-output-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/hong-kong-baptist-university-person-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/hong-kong-baptist-university-organization-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/hong-kong-baptist-university-list-research-outputs-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/hong-kong-baptist-university-list-persons-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/hong-kong-baptist-university-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/hong-kong-baptist-university-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/hong-kong-baptist-university-context.jsonld
- aid: hong-kong-baptist-university:mobile-app-backend
  name: HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)
  description: Backend host serving the official HKBU mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk). The host resolves and serves
    app support content such as the app privacy notice, but there is no public developer documentation, OpenAPI spec, or self-service
    sign-up; the API is intended for the first-party mobile client only. Listed for completeness; no endpoints are documented
    or independently verified.
  humanURL: https://mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk/html/app_privacy_policy.html
  tags:
  - Mobile
  - Backend
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk/html/app_privacy_policy.html
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/HKBUNLP
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://hk.linkedin.com/school/hong-kong-baptist-university/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/hkbaptistu
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hong-kong-baptist-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hong-kong-baptist-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/hong-kong-baptist-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com