Kyushu University

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: '0.19'
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