Massey University

aid: massey
name: Massey University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Massey University (Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a public research university in New Zealand with campuses in
  Palmerston North (Manawatū), Wellington and Albany (Auckland). Its machine-readable footprint is real but small, and it
  is three different things at once. The university itself operates three callable surfaces: an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and a
  DSpace 8.3 HAL/JSON REST API on its own host for Massey Research Online / Pātaka Rangahau, and the M-API, a news, events
  and staff-directory web service documented at www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/ which is live and answering but API-key gated, self-described
  as unsupported, and closed to new key applications; the later M-API v1_2 host, api.massey.ac.nz, now states the service
  is no longer available. It operates two identity surfaces that are stronger than any of its APIs: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0
  Identity Provider at idp.massey.ac.nz published through the Tuakiri Federation and eduGAIN, and a Microsoft Entra ID tenant
  discoverable by domain. And it is registered in three identifier registries - DataCite (as a DataCite New Zealand consortium
  organization with two repositories), Crossref (two members, three prefixes) and ROR. Everything else that looks like a Massey
  API is a vendor''s: library discovery is EBSCO Discovery Service, opening hours and enquiries run on Springshare LibCal
  and LibAnswers. There is no central developer portal, no published API catalog, no llms.txt and no .well-known/apis.json.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: request
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Free · open harvesting endpoints, key-gated general API
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/massey/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- New Zealand
- Research
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- DataCite
- Crossref
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Three institution-operated surfaces were reached and read live on 2026-09-01: the OAI-PMH endpoint (Identify and
    ListMetadataFormats), the DSpace REST backend (root, communities and collections anonymous; items and bitstreams 401)
    and the M-API v1, whose keyless response proves the service is running. Two institution-operated identity surfaces were
    also read in full - the Shibboleth IdP metadata and the Entra ID OIDC discovery document. Registry memberships were confirmed
    directly from DataCite, Crossref and ROR. Three limits on this profile are worth stating. First, the M-API is API-key
    gated and Massey says key applications are not publicly available, so only its documented shape and its error behaviour
    could be recorded, never a successful data call. Second, mro.massey.ac.nz is genuinely slow and intermittently drops TLS
    connections - three consecutive fetches of the repository home page returned 000, 200 in 28s and 200 in 36s - so the discovery
    search endpoint is recorded from the HAL link index rather than from a confirmed 2xx. Third, royalsociety.org.nz returned
    403 to every probe, so a probable New Zealand ORCID Consortium membership could not be evidenced and is deliberately not
    claimed. massey.figshare.com was tested and rejected: *.figshare.com is a wildcard, an invented control subdomain behaves
    identically, and Massey''s own research data guidance points researchers at generic figshare.com. No Figshare tenancy
    is recorded.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api/core/communities
    status: 200
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api/core/collections
    status: 200
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api/core/items
    status: 401
  - url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
    status: 200
    note: live but slow - 28 to 36 seconds, one of three attempts failed at the TLS layer
  - url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/massey.cfc?method=get&path=news/articles&args=limit:2
    status: 200
    note: no key sent; body returns status false, message "Invalid api key" - the service is running
  - url: https://api.massey.ac.nz/
    status: 200
    note: M-API v1_2 landing page states "This is a legacy API service and is no longer available."
  - url: https://idp.massey.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/massey.ac.nz/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/massey
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/12895
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/052czxv31
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/.well-known/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/orcid-in-new-zealand/new-zealand-orcid-consortium/who-is-involved-with-the-new-zealand-orcid-consortium/nz-orcid-consortium-members
    status: 403
    note: bot-blocked; ORCID consortium membership could not be evidenced and is not claimed
apis:
- aid: massey:mro-oai-pmh
  name: Massey Research Online OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: mro.massey.ac.nz is under Massey's own registrable domain; the Identify response names repositoryIdentifier
    mro.massey.ac.nz and adminEmail LibIT@massey.ac.nz.
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for Massey Research Online (Pātaka Rangahau), the university''s
    DSpace institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research outputs. Fully anonymous, no key. Verified live
    2026-09-01: protocolVersion 2.0, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient, identifier scheme oai:mro.massey.ac.nz.
    Thirteen metadata formats are offered - didl, mods, ore, mets, xoai, dim, rioxx, uketd_dc, qdc, oai_dc, rdf, marc and
    etdms.'
  humanURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/massey-mro-dspace-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/massey-conformance.yml
- aid: massey:mro-rest
  name: Massey Research Online DSpace REST API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Self-hosted DSpace 8.3 on Massey's own host mro.massey.ac.nz (130.123.100.10). The software is open
    source and its contract shape is shared with every DSpace 8 install; the deployment, the content and the DOI prefix 10.82921
    are Massey's.
  description: HAL/JSON REST API for Massey Research Online, running DSpace 8.3. Anonymous read is permitted on the repository
    root, communities (19 of them) and collections; item and bitstream listings return 401 "Authentication is required". Verified
    live 2026-09-01. The host is slow and intermittently drops connections to automated clients.
  humanURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api
  tags:
  - REST
  - HAL
  - JSON
  - DSpace
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/massey-mro-dspace-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/massey-mro-dspace-root.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/massey-mro-root.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/massey-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/massey-errors.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
- aid: massey:mapi-v1
  name: Massey M-API WebService API v1
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Documented and served on www.massey.ac.nz, Massey's own domain, and described by the university as
    its own effort to surface Massey data for Massey websites and apps.
  description: Massey University's own news, events and staff-directory web service. A single endpoint, /api/v1/massey.cfc,
    selects a resource with a `path` parameter - news/articles, news/types, news/categories, events/events, events/types,
    events/categories or people/people - and filters with semicolon-separated `args` pairs. XML or JSON. Live and answering
    on 2026-09-01, but API-key gated with key applications not publicly available, and self-described by Massey as "a development
    experiment for DATA RETRIEVAL ONLY, not recommended for public consumption, is not supported, and may be discontinued
    without notice". Errors are returned in the body at HTTP 200, not as status codes. The successor host api.massey.ac.nz
    (v1_2) now states the service is no longer available.
  humanURL: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/
  baseURL: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/massey.cfc
  tags:
  - News
  - Events
  - Directory
  - Campus
  - Legacy
  - API Key
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/massey-mapi-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/massey-mapi-envelope.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/massey-mapi-invalid-key.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/massey-authentication.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/massey-errors.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/massey-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/
- aid: massey:idp-shibboleth
  name: Massey University Shibboleth Identity Provider
  x-operator: federation
  x-operator-evidence: entityID https://idp.massey.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope massey.ac.nz, hosted on Massey's own
    idp.massey.ac.nz. Published in the Tuakiri Federation (New Zealand Access Federation) and in eduGAIN per the REFEDS Metadata
    Explorer Tool.
  description: Massey University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider. The metadata document is public, machine-readable
    and continuously published to federation partners. It advertises SAML 2.0, SAML 1.1 and urn:mace:shibboleth:1.0, four
    SingleSignOnService bindings, four SingleLogoutService bindings and an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor. This is the institution's
    strongest machine-readable surface - it is operated by Massey, it is standards-conformant, and it is the surface a federated
    service provider actually integrates with.
  humanURL: https://met.refeds.org/met/entity/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.massey.ac.nz%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth/
  baseURL: https://idp.massey.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Tuakiri
  - eduGAIN
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/massey-idp-metadata-summary.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/massey-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/massey-conformance.yml
- aid: massey:entra-id
  name: Massey University Microsoft Entra ID Tenant
  x-operator: federation
  x-operator-evidence: OIDC discovery by the institution's own domain, login.microsoftonline.com/massey.ac.nz, resolves to
    tenant 388728e1-bbd0-4378-98dc-f8682e644300. The tenant is Massey's; the platform is Microsoft's.
  description: Massey University's Microsoft Entra ID tenant, discoverable by domain. The OpenID Connect discovery document
    is public and machine-readable and gives the issuer, authorization, token and JWKS endpoints for Massey staff and student
    identities. Region scope OC (Oceania). Massey also runs masseyuni.sharepoint.com on the same tenant. Recorded as a relationship
    and an identity surface - the contract is Microsoft's, the tenant is Massey's.
  humanURL: https://www.massey.ac.nz/
  baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/massey.ac.nz/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - OpenID Connect
  - OAuth
  - Entra ID
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/massey-authentication.yml
- aid: massey:datacite
  name: DataCite Membership — Massey University
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-evidence: 'api.datacite.org is DataCite''s own host and its contract is DataCite''s. The MEMBERSHIP is a fact
    about Massey: provider id massey, symbol MASSEY, memberType consortium_organization under DataCite New Zealand (DOINZCO),
    rorId https://ror.org/052czxv31.'
  description: Massey University is a DataCite member organization within the DataCite New Zealand consortium and mints DOIs
    through two active repositories - massey.eqpliw, "Pātaka Rangahau Massey Research Online" (prefix 10.82921, pointing at
    https://mro.massey.ac.nz/home), and massey.cgeajo, "Massey University Library Ebooks" / Open Educational Resources (prefix
    10.82376, registered 2026). This corrects Massey's own research data guidance page, which still says the university does
    not subscribe to a DOI minting service at the university level. The registry's contract is DataCite's and is not saved
    here; only the membership is recorded.
  humanURL: https://commons.datacite.org/providers/massey
  baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/massey
  tags:
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Registry
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/massey-conformance.yml
- aid: massey:crossref
  name: Crossref Membership — Massey University
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-evidence: 'api.crossref.org is Crossref''s own host. The membership is Massey''s: member 12895 "Massey University"
    and member 22782 "Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University".'
  description: Massey University registers DOIs with Crossref under member id 12895, prefixes 10.33217 and 10.54322, 314 DOIs
    recorded (22 current, 292 backfile). A second Massey member, 22782, covers the Centre for Defence and Security Studies
    with prefix 10.36878 and 88 DOIs. The registry's contract is Crossref's and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/12895
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Registry
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Scholarly Publishing
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/massey-conformance.yml
- aid: massey:ror
  name: ROR Registration — Massey University
  x-operator: registry
  x-operator-evidence: 'ror.org is the Research Organization Registry''s own host. The record is Massey''s: https://ror.org/052czxv31,
    declaring domain massey.ac.nz, established 1927, types education and funder, GRID grid.148374.d, ISNI 0000 0001 0696 9806,
    Fundref 501100001554.'
  description: Massey University's entry in the Research Organization Registry. This is the canonical machine-readable identifier
    for the institution and the anchor every other registry record in this profile points back to - DataCite's provider record
    carries the same ROR id. The registry's contract is ROR's and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/052czxv31
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/052czxv31
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Registry
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Organization Identifier
- aid: massey:ebsco-discover
  name: Discover — EBSCO Discovery Service (Massey tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: research.ebsco.com is EBSCO's generic host, shared by every EBSCO customer. The customer scope /c/4egzpd
    is Massey's and is the link Massey's own library pages send students to. The contract is EBSCO's; the tenancy is Massey's.
  description: '"Discover" is Massey University Library''s discovery layer, an EBSCO Discovery Service tenancy under customer
    scope 4egzpd, selected by the library in 2012. It searches the library catalogue and subscribed databases from one box.
    No institution-operated API sits in front of it and EBSCO''s own contract is not saved here. The customer-scoped URL returned
    HTTP 400 to a bare automated request on 2026-09-01; the Massey page that publishes it is live.'
  humanURL: https://www.massey.ac.nz/study/library/how-to-find-information-and-resources/using-discover-to-get-started/
  baseURL: https://research.ebsco.com/c/4egzpd/search
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - EBSCO
  - Vendor Platform
  - Tenant
- aid: massey:libcal
  name: Massey Library Hours & Bookings — Springshare LibCal (Massey tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: massey.libcal.com is an institution-specific subdomain CNAMEd to region-au.libcal.com, Springshare's
    Australian region host. The contract and the platform are Springshare's.
  description: Massey University Library's opening hours, room bookings and events run on a Springshare LibCal tenancy. LibCal
    exposes a REST API at /api/1.1/ which returned HTTP 403 without credentials on 2026-09-01 - a real, authenticated API
    surface, but Springshare's contract, not Massey's. Recorded as a tenancy.
  humanURL: https://massey.libcal.com/hours
  baseURL: https://massey.libcal.com/api/1.1
  tags:
  - Library
  - Room Booking
  - Opening Hours
  - Springshare
  - Vendor Platform
  - Tenant
- aid: massey:libanswers
  name: Massey Library Enquiries — Springshare LibAnswers (Massey tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-operator-evidence: massey.libanswers.com is an institution-specific subdomain on Springshare's LibAnswers platform.
  description: Massey University Library's public enquiry and FAQ service, running on a Springshare LibAnswers tenancy. Verified
    live 2026-09-01. Springshare's contract, Massey's tenancy and Massey's content.
  humanURL: https://massey.libanswers.com/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Support
  - FAQ
  - Springshare
  - Vendor Platform
  - Tenant
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/api/v1/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.massey.ac.nz/idp/shibboleth
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/study/library/how-to-find-information-and-resources/using-discover-to-get-started/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/study/study-and-assignment-support-and-guides/academic-integrity-student-guide/artificial-intelligence-ai-usage-and-detection/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Massey-Uni
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/contact-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://sites.massey.ac.nz/library/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://sites.massey.ac.nz/library/feed/
- type: News
  url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/massey-university/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/massey-mapi-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/massey-mro-dspace-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/massey-mapi-envelope.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/massey-mro-dspace-root.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/massey-authentication.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/massey-errors.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/massey-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/massey-vocabulary.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/massey-lifecycle.yml
- type: Rules
  url: rules/massey-openapi-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/massey-context.jsonld
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/massey-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/massey-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/massey-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/massey-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com