# La Trobe University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/la-trobe-university/  
**Website:** https://www.latrobe.edu.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 31.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 66.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

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

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| 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 (4)

- **OPAL (Open @ La Trobe) OAI-PMH Endpoint** — 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 support...
- **La Trobe API Gateway (Gated)** — 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 ...
- **La Trobe University articles API** — The articles API from La Trobe University — 7 operation(s) for articles.
- **La Trobe University collections API** — The collections API from La Trobe University — 4 operation(s) for collections.

## Agentic access (1)

- **La Trobe University Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 2 acting

## Security (1)

- **La Trobe University Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **La Trobe University Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Australia, Research, Open Data, Repository, Library

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