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Pohang University of Science and Technology

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university in Pohang, South Korea, founded in 1986 by the steelmaker POSCO and ranked #87 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. POSTECH operates a public English-language website and a range of authenticated institutional systems (PODIUM portal, PLMS learning management, admissions, and certificate services). Its primary confirmed public, machine-readable API surface is the POSTECH Library OASIS institutional repository, a DSpace platform that exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. No general-purpose developer portal or open-data API program was found; most other systems are login-gated.

Pohang University of Science and Technology publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Institutional Repository.

The Pohang University of Science and Technology catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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18.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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1 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchInstitutional RepositoryOAI-PMHDSpaceLibrarySouth KoreaKorea

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 18.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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 1

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

OASIS Repository OAI-PMH

Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the POSTECH Library OASIS institutional repository (DSpace). Verified to respond to Identify, ListMetadataFormats, and ListSets...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Postech Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Postech Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Postech Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Postech Context

15 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Postech Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

x-Portal
x-Portal

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 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

x-Repository
x-Repository
 Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: postech
name: Pohang University of Science and Technology
description: 'Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university in Pohang, South Korea,
  founded in 1986 by the steelmaker POSCO and ranked #87 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. POSTECH operates a public
  English-language website and a range of authenticated institutional systems (PODIUM portal, PLMS learning management, admissions,
  and certificate services). Its primary confirmed public, machine-readable API surface is the POSTECH Library OASIS institutional
  repository, a DSpace platform that exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. No general-purpose developer
  portal or open-data API program was found; most other systems are login-gated.'
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/postech.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/postech/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Library
- South Korea
- Korea
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: postech:oasis-oai-pmh
  name: OASIS Repository OAI-PMH
  description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the POSTECH Library OASIS institutional repository (DSpace).
    Verified to respond to Identify, ListMetadataFormats, and ListSets. Repository name reported as "OASIS Repository@POSTECHLIBRARY";
    earliest datestamp 2014-12-01; granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. Supports 12 metadata formats including oai_dc, qdc, mods,
    mets, marc, didl, ore, rdf, dim, xoai, etdms, and uketd_dc, exposing 163 sets across academic departments and content
    types (journal papers, conference papers, theses).
  humanURL: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  baseURL: https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Institutional Repository
  - Metadata
  - Library
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: x-Identify
    url: https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: x-ListMetadataFormats
    url: https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/postech-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.postech.ac.kr/eng/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://kr.linkedin.com/school/pohang-university-of-science-and-technology/
- type: x-Portal
  url: https://podium.postech.ac.kr
- type: x-Repository
  url: https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/postech-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/postech-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/postech-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com