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Qatar University

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other institutional systems (Self-Service Banner SIS, library discovery, SSO/MFA) are gated behind authentication and do not publish open developer documentation.

Qatar University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Qatar, and Middle East.

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

Qatar University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 7 more developer resources.

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19.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityQatarMiddle EastResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryDSpaceOAI-PMH

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 19.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 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 2

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

QSpace OAI-PMH Metadata Endpoint

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 Id...

QSpace DSpace REST API

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, col...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Qatar Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Qatar Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Qatar Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Qatar Context

33 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Qatar Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

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 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
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/qatar.png
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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qatar-domain-security.yml
- 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