Kyushu University

Kyushu University (九州大学) is a national research university in Fukuoka, Japan, ranked #167 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, programmatic footprint is concentrated in the university library, which operates the Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) and exposes scholarly metadata over a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface using the JPCOAR schema, alongside quarterly bulk TSV downloads via the Handle system. Other institutional surfaces — the Elsevier Pure research portal and the Academic Staff researcher database — are public for browsing but do not document an open API. There is no central institution-wide developer portal; this profile catalogs only the endpoints that could be verified live.

Kyushu University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Institutional Repository (QIR) OAI-PMH. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Library.

The Kyushu University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Kyushu University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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25.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

2 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchLibraryInstitutional RepositoryOAI-PMHOpen AccessJapan

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 25.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kyushu Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kyushu
name: Kyushu University
description: 'Kyushu University (九州大学) is a national research university in Fukuoka, Japan, ranked #167 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, programmatic footprint is concentrated in the university library, which operates the Kyushu University
  Institutional Repository (QIR) and exposes scholarly metadata over a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface using the JPCOAR schema,
  alongside quarterly bulk TSV downloads via the Handle system. Other institutional surfaces — the Elsevier Pure research
  portal and the Academic Staff researcher database — are public for browsing but do not document an open API. There is no
  central institution-wide developer portal; this profile catalogs only the endpoints that could be verified live.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kyushu.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kyushu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Japan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kyushu:qir-oai-pmh
  name: Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) OAI-PMH
  description: 'Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR), run
    by the Kyushu University Library. Returns scholarly metadata in the JPCOAR schema (metadataPrefix=jpcoar). Supports Identify,
    GetRecord and ListRecords (max 500 records per request, with resumptionToken pagination) and from/until date filtering.
    Verified live: the Identify verb returns repositoryName "Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR)", protocolVersion
    2.0, granularity to seconds, and adminEmail qir@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp.'
  humanURL: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
  baseURL: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Metadata
  - JPCOAR
  - Open Access
  - Library
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mmd/mmd_api/oai-pmh/?verb=Identify
- aid: kyushu:qir-bulk-tsv
  name: QIR / Kyushu University Collections Bulk Metadata (TSV via Handle)
  description: Quarterly full-metadata TSV exports for Kyushu University Library digital collections, distributed through
    the Handle system. Covers the institutional repository (QIR) as well as rare materials, seal images and coal images collections.
    Provided as bulk downloads rather than a query API.
  humanURL: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
  tags:
  - Bulk Download
  - Metadata
  - TSV
  - Handle
  - Library
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
  - type: Download
    url: https://hdl.handle.net/2324/6625737
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kyushu-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ja/metadata
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/RIIT-KyushuUniv
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kyushu-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kyushu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kyushu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kyushu-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Kyushu University

Kin Score

APIs 2

Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) OAI-PMH

QIR / Kyushu University Collections Bulk Metadata (TSV via Handle)

Pricing Plans 1

Kyushu Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Kyushu Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Kyushu Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Kyushu Context

Security Posture 1

Kyushu Domain Security

Resources