La Trobe University

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.

La Trobe University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: articles API and collections API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Australia, and Research.

The La Trobe University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

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31.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

4 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityAustraliaResearchOpen DataRepositoryLibrary

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 31.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 4

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

La Trobe University Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

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
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/la-trobe-university.png
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: '0.23'
apis:
- 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
- aid: la-trobe-university:la-trobe-university-articles-api
  name: La Trobe University articles API
  description: The articles API from La Trobe University — 7 operation(s) for articles.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Articles
  tags_raw:
  - articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/la-trobe-university-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Website
    url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  - 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:la-trobe-university-collections-api
  name: La Trobe University collections API
  description: The collections API from La Trobe University — 4 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/la-trobe-university-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Website
    url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  - 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
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/la-trobe-university-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/la-trobe-university-domain-security.yml
- 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

La Trobe University

APIs 4

Open Collections 3

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2