La Trobe University

aid: la-trobe-university
name: La Trobe University
description: 'La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ranked #217 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most universities, La Trobe does not operate a single consolidated public developer
  portal; the bulk of its API surface (an internal API gateway at api.latrobe.edu.au) sits behind sign-in and institutional
  federation. Its most clearly public, documented machine-readable interface is its open research repository, OPAL (Open @
  La Trobe), which is hosted on the Figshare platform and therefore exposes the standard Figshare REST API and an OAI-PMH
  metadata endpoint for harvesting open-access publications, theses, and research data. Library discovery runs on Ex Libris
  Alma and Primo.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/la-trobe-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Australia
- Research
- Open Data
- Repository
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: la-trobe-university:opal-figshare-rest
  name: OPAL (Open @ La Trobe) Figshare REST API
  description: OPAL is La Trobe University's institutional open-access repository, hosted on the Figshare platform. Figshare
    exposes a public, documented REST API; La Trobe's portal records are retrievable via the institution-scoped articles endpoint
    (institution id 234). Returns publications, theses, datasets, and educational resources with DOIs and Dublin Core / DataCite
    metadata. Verified live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Open Data
  - Research
  - Figshare
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Website
    url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/la-trobe-university-opal-figshare.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/la-trobe-university-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/la-trobe-university-article-structure.json
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/la-trobe-university-context.jsonld
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/la-trobe-university-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/la-trobe-university-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/la-trobe-university-get-article-example.json
- aid: la-trobe-university:opal-figshare-oai-pmh
  name: OPAL (Open @ La Trobe) OAI-PMH Endpoint
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the La Trobe OPAL repository, served via the Figshare platform OAI
    provider, scoped to the La Trobe portal set (portal_234) and supporting the oai_dc metadata prefix. Verified live (HTTP
    200).
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/#oai_pmh
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Open Data
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/#oai_pmh
  - type: Website
    url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
- aid: la-trobe-university:api-gateway
  name: La Trobe API Gateway (Gated)
  description: An institutional API gateway is reachable at api.latrobe.edu.au, but it is not a public, self-service developer
    product. Unauthenticated requests return HTTP 302 redirecting to a /signin page, indicating access is restricted to authenticated
    and/or institutionally affiliated consumers. No public API documentation or open sign-up was found. Listed for transparency
    only; no endpoints are documented.
  humanURL: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Gated
  - Authentication
  - Internal
  - Gateway
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/signin
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: 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