La Trobe University

aid: la-trobe-university
name: La Trobe University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'La Trobe University is a public research university headquartered in Bundoora, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
  founded in 1964 and ranked #217 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. La Trobe operates no public, self-service API
  product and publishes no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or GraphQL description of its own. Its single institution-operated API host,
  api.latrobe.edu.au, is an Azure API Management developer portal (CNAME ltu-api-prod-apim.developer.azure-api.net) that redirects
  every unauthenticated path to /signin, with no public catalogue, documentation or sign-up. Everything else that looks programmable
  under the La Trobe name is a vendor platform running under an institutional tenancy: the open-access repository OPAL (opal.latrobe.edu.au,
  CNAME figshare.com) and its alias researchdata.latrobe.edu.au are Figshare; the course handbook (handbook.latrobe.edu.au)
  is CourseLoop, whose backend at cf-api-ap-southeast-2.prod.courseloop.com refuses unauthenticated calls; library discovery
  and resource management are Ex Libris Primo and Alma; the Shibboleth identity provider at aaf.latrobe.edu.au is operated
  by the Australian Access Federation under La Trobe''s own domain, entityID and scope. What La Trobe genuinely holds in its
  own name is registry identity — a DataCite membership with the DOI prefix 10.26181 over 47,824 DOIs, Crossref member 11371,
  ROR 01rxfrp27, and the AAF/eduGAIN SAML entity that federates its staff and students. That is the honest footprint: institutional
  identity and stewardship, not institutional engineering.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: No public API product · institutional gateway is sign-in gated
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: none
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Not publicly available
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/la-trobe-university.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/la-trobe-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Australia
- Victoria
- Research
- Research Repository
- Course Catalog
- Identity Federation
- Library
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: no_public_api
  detail: 'La Trobe University publishes no institution-authored API contract. The one API host on its own registrable domain,
    api.latrobe.edu.au, is an Azure API Management developer portal whose every path — /apis, /developer, /.well-known/openid-configuration
    — redirects to /signin, so the catalogue behind it is not externally observable. developer.latrobe.edu.au and data.latrobe.edu.au
    do not resolve. There is no CKAN or Socrata open-data portal and no institution-hosted OAI-PMH responder (opal.latrobe.edu.au/oai
    answers HTTP 202 with an empty body). The remaining machine-readable surfaces are tenancies — Figshare, CourseLoop, Ex
    Libris and an AAF-managed Shibboleth IdP — and are recorded as such, with x-operator on each entry, rather than credited
    to La Trobe as its own engineering. A secondary condition worth noting for future runs: every www/library/policy page
    on latrobe.edu.au sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge and answers 403 to any non-browser client, including /robots.txt,
    /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt, so no institutional policy or terms pointer could be verified and none is claimed
    here.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/apis
    status: 200
  - url: https://developer.latrobe.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.latrobe.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 202
  - url: https://aaf.latrobe.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://handbook.latrobe.edu.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://cf-api-ap-southeast-2.prod.courseloop.com/publisher/search-all?siteId=ltu-prod-pres
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-30'
apis:
- aid: la-trobe-university:api-gateway
  name: La Trobe API Gateway (Gated)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'La Trobe''s own API gateway, an Azure API Management instance published at api.latrobe.edu.au (CNAME ltu-api-prod-apim.developer.azure-api.net).
    It is not a public developer product: every path returns the Azure API Management developer-portal sign-in page, including
    /apis, /developer and /.well-known/openid-configuration. No API catalogue, no specification, no open sign-up, no documentation.
    Listed for transparency because the host is institution-operated and the APIs behind it are La Trobe''s own — but nothing
    about them is externally observable.'
  humanURL: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Gated
  - Gateway
  - Authentication
  - Azure API Management
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/signin
- aid: la-trobe-university:opal-figshare-repository
  name: OPAL (Open @ La Trobe) Research Repository
  x-operator: tenant
  description: OPAL is La Trobe's open-access research repository — its publications, theses, datasets and DOIs — deployed
    as an institutional tenancy on Figshare. opal.latrobe.edu.au is a CNAME to figshare.com, and researchdata.latrobe.edu.au
    redirects to latrobe.figshare.com. The data, the DOI prefix (10.26181) and the OAI-PMH set (portal_234) are La Trobe's;
    the API contract is Figshare's and is scored against Figshare, not against La Trobe. The set-scoped OAI-PMH query below
    is the one machine-readable route into La Trobe's holdings and was verified live on 2026-08-30 (HTTP 200, text/xml, records
    dated 2026-08-28). No generic Figshare OpenAPI is stored in this repository.
  humanURL: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Figshare
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  - type: x-oai-pmh
    url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=portal_234
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- aid: la-trobe-university:aaf-shibboleth-idp
  name: La Trobe Shibboleth Identity Provider (AAF)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'La Trobe''s SAML 2.0 identity provider in the Australian Access Federation, and through AAF in eduGAIN. The
    entity is La Trobe''s — entityID https://aaf.latrobe.edu.au/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope latrobe.edu.au, OrganizationURL
    https://latrobe.edu.au — and the metadata is machine-readable and unauthenticated at that URL (HTTP 200, application/xml,
    4,447 bytes, 2026-08-30), also carried inside the federation aggregate at md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml. Marked tenant
    rather than institution because aaf.latrobe.edu.au is a CNAME to 50fc96936b5e207719a6a235131a8150.idp-cname.aaf.edu.au:
    AAF runs the Shibboleth deployment, La Trobe owns the identity namespace it asserts. This is the most substantive programmable
    surface bearing La Trobe''s own name.'
  humanURL: https://aaf.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://aaf.latrobe.edu.au/idp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  - AAF
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: x-saml-metadata
    url: https://aaf.latrobe.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  - type: x-federation-metadata
    url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/la-trobe-university/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/latrobe
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://handbook.latrobe.edu.au/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://latrobe.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=61LATROBE_INST:LATROBE
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://aaf.latrobe.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/la-trobe-university-conformance.yml
- type: x-json-ld
  url: json-ld/la-trobe-university-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/la-trobe-university-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/la-trobe-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/la-trobe-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/la-trobe-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com