# Qatar University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/qatar/  
**Website:** https://www.qu.edu.qa/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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other institutional systems (Self-Service Banner SIS, library discovery, SSO/MFA) are gated behind authentication and do not publish open developer documentation.

## Kin Score — 17.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Qatar Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Qatar Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Qatar, Middle East, Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, DSpace, OAI-PMH

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/qatar/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.