# Macquarie University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/macquarie/  
**Website:** https://www.mq.edu.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Macquarie University is a public research university in Sydney, Australia, ranked #133 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, developer-relevant API footprint is concentrated in research-data and library infrastructure rather than a single branded developer portal. The Macquarie University Research Data Repository (RDR) runs on Figshare for Institutions, which exposes content through the public Figshare REST API v2 and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint; the university Library maintains public open-source tooling on GitHub built around Ex Libris Alma. Authentication for institutional systems is provided via a Shibboleth/SAML identity provider. No dedicated, publicly documented Macquarie University developer portal or open-data API platform was found during this review.

## Kin Score — 40.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 73.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (12)

- **Macquarie University Research Data Repository (OAI-PMH)** — The Figshare-backed Research Data Repository exposes metadata for harvest via the OAI-PMH protocol through the Figshare OAI-PMH endpoint, supporting standards-based metadata har...
- **Macquarie University Library Open-Source Tooling** — The Macquarie University Library publishes public open-source utilities on GitHub that integrate with the Ex Libris Alma library services platform (for example an Alma toolkit a...
- **Macquarie University altmetric API** — The altmetric API from Macquarie University — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **Macquarie University articles API** — The articles API from Macquarie University — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **Macquarie University authors API** — The authors API from Macquarie University — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **Macquarie University collections API** — The collections API from Macquarie University — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **Macquarie University institutions API** — The institutions API from Macquarie University — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **Macquarie University oauth API** — The oauth API from Macquarie University — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Macquarie University other API** — The other API from Macquarie University — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **Macquarie University profiles API** — The profiles API from Macquarie University — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **Macquarie University projects API** — The projects API from Macquarie University — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **Macquarie University symplectic API** — The symplectic API from Macquarie University — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Macquarie Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Macquarie Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Macquarie Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Macquarie Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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