Nagoya University

Nagoya University (名古屋大学) is a national research university in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, ranked #152 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. As a leading research institution it operates a range of academic and IT services through its Information & Communications (ICTS) division and university library. Its most clearly documented public, machine-readable API surface is the NAGOYA Repository institutional repository, which runs on the NII WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud platform and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for harvesting scholarly metadata. Most other systems (student portal, NU-ID identity, course registration) are gated behind THERS/GakuNin (Shibboleth/SAML) authentication and are not publicly documented developer APIs.

Nagoya University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Nagoya University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Nagoya University’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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21.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

1 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryOAI-PMHJapan

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Composite quality — 21.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Nagoya Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

InstitutionalRepository

InstitutionalRepository

ITServices

ITServices

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nagoya
name: Nagoya University
description: 'Nagoya University (名古屋大学) is a national research university in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, ranked #152 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. As a leading research institution it operates a range of academic and IT services through its
  Information & Communications (ICTS) division and university library. Its most clearly documented public, machine-readable
  API surface is the NAGOYA Repository institutional repository, which runs on the NII WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud platform and exposes
  an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for harvesting scholarly metadata. Most other systems (student portal, NU-ID identity, course registration)
  are gated behind THERS/GakuNin (Shibboleth/SAML) authentication and are not publicly documented developer APIs.'
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/nagoya.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nagoya/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Japan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: nagoya:repo-oai
  name: NAGOYA Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the NAGOYA Repository, the Nagoya University institutional repository
    running on the NII WEKO3 / JAIRO Cloud platform. Supports the standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets,
    ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord) for harvesting scholarly metadata (theses, articles, bulletins). The Identify
    response was verified live and returns repositoryName "NAGOYA Repository" with baseURL https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai.
  humanURL: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - WEKO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  - type: BaseURL
    url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai?verb=Identify
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nagoya-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
- type: InstitutionalRepository
  url: https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/
- type: ITServices
  url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/services/nuid/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/nagoya-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/nagoya-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/nagoya-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/nagoya-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/nagoya-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Nagoya University

Kin Score

APIs 1

NAGOYA Repository OAI-PMH

Pricing Plans 1

Nagoya Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Nagoya Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Nagoya Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Nagoya Context

Security Posture 1

Nagoya Domain Security

Resources