Khalifa University

aid: khalifa
name: Khalifa University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Khalifa University of Science and Technology is a research-intensive public university in Abu Dhabi, United
  Arab Emirates (ROR 05hffr360), formed from the 2017 merger of KUSTAR, the Masdar Institute and the Petroleum Institute.
  Its programmable footprint is small, real, and almost entirely indirect. Two surfaces are genuinely institution-operated:
  an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the Khazna research portal at khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai, live and anonymous with an institution
  admin contact, and the university''s own Microsoft Entra ID tenant for the ku.ac.ae namespace, which issues OpenID Connect
  and SAML 2.0 for institution systems. A third, partial surface is the WordPress REST API on www.ku.ac.ae, whose discovery
  root and a handful of routes answer publicly while the core collections are closed with HTTP 401. Everything else a search
  turns up is a vendor contract running under the university''s name: Khazna itself is an Elsevier Pure tenant (khazna.ku.ac.ae
  CNAMEs to khalifauniversity.elsevierpure.com) and Elsevier''s own Pure API spec is served from that host; the LMS is a Blackboard
  Learn tenant behind elearn.ku.ac.ae; discovery is Ex Libris Primo VE; the library web presence, calendar and ask-a-librarian
  service are Springshare; off-campus access is OCLC EZproxy. Those relationships are recorded here as tenancies. None of
  their contracts are catalogued as Khalifa''s. There is no central developer portal, no published API program, no open-data
  portal, and no institution-operated API reference.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/khalifa.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/khalifa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Robotics
- United Arab Emirates
- Abu Dhabi
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: khalifa:khazna-oai-pmh
  name: Khazna OAI-PMH Repository
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Khazna, Khalifa University''s research portal, at https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai.
    Open and anonymous. Identify (probed 2026-09-01, HTTP 200) reports repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", baseURL https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai,
    adminEmail khazna@ku.ac.ae, earliestDatestamp 2023-01-11T09:41:56Z, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, and declares the
    OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile. ListMetadataFormats returns 7 formats including oai_dc, MODS 3.8 and xmetadiss; ListSets returns
    a full set hierarchy. The base URL is on the institution''s own registrable domain and the admin contact is an institution
    address, so the harvesting surface is the institution''s — even though the repository software underneath it is an Elsevier
    Pure tenant. Elsevier''s own "Pure API" contract is served from the same host at /ws/api/openapi.yaml and is deliberately
    NOT catalogued here: it is Elsevier''s contract, not Khalifa''s.'
  humanURL: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae
  baseURL: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/khalifa-khazna-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: Example
    url: examples/khalifa-oai-pmh-identify-response.xml
  - type: Example
    url: examples/khalifa-oai-pmh-listmetadataformats-response.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/khalifa-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/khalifa-education-standards-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae
- aid: khalifa:entra-identity-federation
  name: Khalifa University Identity Federation (Microsoft Entra ID)
  x-operator: federation
  description: 'Khalifa University operates its own Microsoft Entra ID tenant for the ku.ac.ae namespace — tenant id 08fe1c0a-19f5-4f24-a662-fdd5dd460025,
    getuserrealm.srf reporting NameSpaceType=Managed, DomainName=ku.ac.ae, FederationBrandName=ku.ac.ae. The OpenID Connect
    discovery document and the SAML 2.0 federation metadata are both public and machine-readable (HTTP 200, probed 2026-09-01).
    The tenant is demonstrably the production IdP for institution systems: elearn.ku.ac.ae redirects to its /saml2 endpoint
    with a SAMLRequest, and portal.ku.ac.ae and kubee.ku.ac.ae redirect to its WS-Federation endpoint with wtrealm http://adfs.ku.ac.ae/adfs/services/trust.
    No Shibboleth IdP and no eduGAIN entity were found; Khalifa federates through Entra ID instead. The identity provider
    is the institution''s; the hosting platform is Microsoft''s.'
  humanURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/ku.ac.ae/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - OpenID Connect
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Example
    url: examples/khalifa-entra-openid-configuration.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/khalifa-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/khalifa-education-standards-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/ku.ac.ae/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
- aid: khalifa:ku-web-rest
  name: Khalifa University Website REST API (WordPress)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The university''s own web host at www.ku.ac.ae runs WordPress and answers its REST discovery root anonymously
    — HTTP 200, name "Khalifa University", 17 namespaces, 202 routes (probed 2026-09-01). Access is partial by design: the
    core wp/v2 collection routes return HTTP 401 with code "itsec_rest_api_access_restricted", while wp/v2/search and the
    tribe/events/v1 event and venue routes return real data with no credential. The deployment is institution-operated; the
    contract is WordPress core''s and its plugins'', so no generic WordPress specification is catalogued under Khalifa University.
    Recorded as a real, live, partially readable institution surface — not as Khalifa engineering.'
  humanURL: https://www.ku.ac.ae/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.ku.ac.ae/wp-json
  tags:
  - Content
  - Website
  - WordPress
  - Events
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/khalifa-authentication.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/wp-json/
- aid: khalifa:khazna-pure
  name: Khazna Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Khalifa University''s CRIS and research portal, Khazna, is an Elsevier Pure tenancy: khazna.ku.ac.ae is a
    CNAME to khalifauniversity.elsevierpure.com, which is a CNAME to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com. The research outputs, the profiles
    and the DOIs are Khalifa''s; the software and the contract are Elsevier''s. The Pure Web Service spec served at https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/api/openapi.yaml
    — info.title "Pure API", version 5.36.2-1, info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com, servers "- url: /ws/api" (relative,
    hostless) — is DELIBERATELY NOT SAVED under this institution. It is the exact class of misattribution this catalog''s
    university pipeline exists to prevent. The relationship is the fact worth recording; the contract belongs with Elsevier.'
  humanURL: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - CRIS
  - Research Data
  - Elsevier Pure
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/api/documentation/index.html
- aid: khalifa:blackboard-learn
  name: Blackboard Learn (khalifauni tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Khalifa University''s learning management system is an Anthology Blackboard Learn SaaS tenancy named "khalifauni".
    elearn.ku.ac.ae is a CNAME to khalifauni.blackboard.com, which resolves into learn.5e7d505f72bc5.euc1.prod-01.core.blackboard.com.
    The tenant is confirmed live: https://khalifauni.blackboard.com/learn/api/public/v1/system/version returned HTTP 200 with
    {"learn":{"major":4000,"minor":21,"patch":0,"build":"rel.28+435d029"}} on 2026-09-01, and the tenant root redirects into
    Khalifa''s own Entra ID SAML2 endpoint. The Blackboard REST API and its LTI certification are Anthology''s, not Khalifa''s,
    and are not catalogued here.'
  humanURL: https://elearn.ku.ac.ae
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - LMS
  - Blackboard
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://khalifauni.blackboard.com/learn/api/public/v1/system/version
- aid: khalifa:primo-discovery
  name: Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Library discovery runs on an Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy at khalifa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with view id 971KUOSTAR_INST:KU
    — the institution code still carrying the legacy KUSTAR name. Probed 2026-09-01, HTTP 200 with the correct vid; the host
    resolves to eu01.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Ex Libris operates the platform and owns the contract; the catalog and the collection
    are Khalifa's.
  humanURL: https://khalifa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=971KUOSTAR_INST:KU
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://khalifa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=971KUOSTAR_INST:KU
- aid: khalifa:springshare
  name: Library Web, Calendar and Reference (Springshare tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Three Springshare tenancies serve the Khalifa University library. library.ku.ac.ae is a CNAME to region-us.libguides.com
    (LibGuides; page title "Library Home - LibGuides at Khalifa University of Science and Technology"). libanswers.ku.ac.ae
    is a CNAME to region-us.libanswers.com (LibAnswers). Room and event booking runs on the account kustar.libcal.com, with
    LibApps admin at kustar.libapps.com — again the legacy KUSTAR account name. All three returned HTTP 200 on 2026-09-01.
    Springshare's LibGuides/LibCal/ LibAnswers APIs are keyed per site by Springshare and are the vendor's contract; the tenancies
    are Khalifa's.
  humanURL: https://library.ku.ac.ae/lib
  tags:
  - Library
  - Springshare
  - LibGuides
  - Room Booking
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.ku.ac.ae/lib
  - type: Website
    url: https://libanswers.ku.ac.ae/
  - type: Website
    url: https://kustar.libcal.com/
- aid: khalifa:ezproxy
  name: Off-Campus Access (OCLC EZproxy tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Off-campus access to licensed library resources runs on an OCLC EZproxy tenancy under the named account khalifa.idm.oclc.org
    (HTTP 200 on /login, probed 2026-09-01). Proxied database links appear throughout the library site, for example search.ebscohost.com.khalifa.idm.oclc.org.
    OCLC operates the platform; the named account and the entitlement configuration are Khalifa's.
  humanURL: https://khalifa.idm.oclc.org/login
  tags:
  - Library
  - Proxy
  - OCLC
  - Access Management
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://khalifa.idm.oclc.org/login
- aid: khalifa:ror
  name: ROR Registration
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'Khalifa University of Science and Technology is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/05hffr360,
    with the alternate names KUSTAR and Khalifa University and country United Arab Emirates. This is a membership in an identifier
    registry the institution is registered in, not a contract it operates: the registry''s own API belongs to ROR. Recorded
    because it is a fact about Khalifa, and it is the identifier every downstream research system resolves them by. No DataCite
    client or provider (api.datacite.org, meta.total 0) and no Crossref membership (api.crossref.org/members) were found for
    this institution on 2026-09-01.'
  humanURL: https://ror.org/05hffr360
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - ROR
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ror.org/05hffr360
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/05hffr360
- aid: khalifa:kucars
  name: KUCARS Open-Source Robotics Research (GitHub)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Public open-source repositories from the Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS)
    — 71 public repos covering coverage path planning, soft manipulator dynamics, collision detection and haptic teleoperation.
    Research source code (C++, MATLAB, Python, CMake), not a documented, managed API product; no API reference and no signup.
    A code host is not a vendor, and this organization identifies itself as Khalifa University's centre (org name "Khalifa
    University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems", blog www.kucars.ae), so it is recorded as institution-operated. Related
    lab organizations publishing under Khalifa research groups include KUQCI, CVML-KU, KU-AIR-Lab and VSAP-lab.
  humanURL: https://github.com/kucars
  tags:
  - Robotics
  - Research
  - Source Code
  - Open-Source
  tags_raw:
  - Robotics
  - Research
  - Source Code
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/kucars
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/kucars
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ku.ac.ae
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/news
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/feed/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/disclaimer
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://khalifa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=971KUOSTAR_INST:KU
- type: Library
  url: https://library.ku.ac.ae/lib
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/ku.ac.ae/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kucars
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/khalifauniversity/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/khalifa-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/khalifa-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/khalifa-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/khalifa-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/khalifa-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/khalifa-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Khalifa University publishes no developer portal and no API program, but it is not empty. Two institution-operated
    machine-readable surfaces were found and verified live on 2026-09-01: an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint at khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai
    (Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListSets all HTTP 200, adminEmail khazna@ku.ac.ae) and the university''s own Microsoft
    Entra ID tenant for ku.ac.ae (OIDC discovery and SAML federation metadata both HTTP 200, tenant 08fe1c0a-19f5-4f24-a662-fdd5dd460025,
    in production for elearn/portal/kubee SSO). A third, partial surface is the WordPress REST API on www.ku.ac.ae, whose
    discovery root and a handful of routes are public while core collections return 401. Six vendor tenancies were identified
    and recorded as relationships rather than contracts: Elsevier Pure (Khazna), Blackboard Learn, Ex Libris Primo VE, Springshare
    LibGuides/LibCal/LibAnswers, and OCLC EZproxy. Elsevier''s "Pure API" spec, served from Khalifa''s own host at khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/api/openapi.yaml
    with a relative servers block and pure-support@elsevier.com as contact, was found and deliberately NOT catalogued. Two
    apparent Figshare tenancies were rejected as false positives: both khalifa.figshare.com and ku.figshare.com return HTTP
    202, and so does a control request to a nonsense subdomain — Figshare wildcards every subdomain. ku.elsevierpure.com was
    also rejected: it redirects to researchprofiles.ku.dk, which is the University of Copenhagen. No DataCite client, no Crossref
    membership, no Shibboleth IdP, no eduGAIN entity, no open-data portal (data.ku.ac.ae, opendata.ku.ac.ae do not resolve),
    and no course-catalog or registrar API (api., developer., sis., registration., catalog.ku.ac.ae all fail to resolve) were
    found. The HPC portal at hpc.ku.ac.ae resolves but returned HTTP 503 "Server Unavailable", so no pointer is emitted for
    it.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://khazna.ku.ac.ae/ws/api/openapi.yaml
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/ku.ac.ae/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/ku.ac.ae/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/wp-json/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/wp-json/wp/v2/search?search=research&per_page=1
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=1
    status: 401
  - url: https://khalifauni.blackboard.com/learn/api/public/v1/system/version
    status: 200
  - url: https://khalifa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=971KUOSTAR_INST:KU
    status: 200
  - url: https://library.ku.ac.ae/lib
    status: 200
  - url: https://libanswers.ku.ac.ae/
    status: 200
  - url: https://kustar.libcal.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://khalifa.idm.oclc.org/login
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/05hffr360
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=ku.ac.ae
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=khalifa
    status: 200
  - url: https://hpc.ku.ac.ae
    status: 503
  - url: https://www.ku.ac.ae/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://data.ku.ac.ae
    status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com