# Kyushu University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kyushu/  
**Website:** https://www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 25.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 39.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 18.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Kyushu University Institutional Repository (QIR) OAI-PMH** — 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 ...
- **QIR / Kyushu University Collections Bulk Metadata (TSV via Handle)** — Quarterly full-metadata TSV exports for Kyushu University Library digital collections, distributed through the Handle system. Covers the institutional repository (QIR) as well a...

## Security (1)

- **Kyushu Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Kyushu Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Library, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Japan

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kyushu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.