Qatar University

aid: qatar
name: Qatar University
description: 'Qatar University is the national public research university of the State of Qatar, located in Doha, and ranked
  #122 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in QSpace,
  the university''s institutional repository running on DSpace 7.6, which exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint
  and a public DSpace REST/HAL API for scholarly output and academic records. Most other institutional systems (Self-Service
  Banner SIS, library discovery, SSO/MFA) are gated behind authentication and do not publish open developer documentation.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qatar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Qatar
- Middle East
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: qatar:qspace-oai
  name: QSpace OAI-PMH Metadata Endpoint
  description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0) endpoint for QSpace, the Qatar University
    institutional repository (DSpace 7.6). Supports the standard Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, ListMetadataFormats, GetRecord,
    and ListIdentifiers verbs for harvesting repository metadata (Dublin Core and other formats). Verified live with repositoryName
    "Qspace" and protocolVersion 2.0.
  humanURL: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
  baseURL: https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
- aid: qatar:qspace-rest
  name: QSpace DSpace REST API
  description: Public DSpace 7.6 REST/HAL API backing the QSpace institutional repository. The API root reports dspaceVersion
    "DSpace 7.6" and exposes HAL-linked resources for communities, collections, items, bitstreams, and discovery search. Read
    operations are public; write operations require authentication.
  humanURL: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
  baseURL: https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/server/api
  tags:
  - REST
  - HAL
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.qu.edu.qa/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/qataruniversity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/qatar-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/qatar-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/qatar-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/qatar-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com