Taylor's University

aid: taylors
name: Taylor's University
description: 'Taylor''s University is a private research university based in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, and ranked #251
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a formal, branded developer portal, but several real, publicly
  reachable machine interfaces exist across its library and research infrastructure. The Taylor''s Library catalog runs on
  Koha (exposing a Koha REST API and an OAI-PMH data provider), and the Taylor''s e-Repository runs on DSpace CRIS (exposing
  a HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint). Identity is federated through Microsoft Entra ID. The institution''s GitHub
  organization exists but currently has no public repositories.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/taylors/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- Open Data
- Malaysia
- Asia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: taylors:library-rest
  name: Taylor's Library Koha REST API
  description: The Taylor's Library catalog runs on the open-source Koha integrated library system, which ships a versioned
    REST API under /api/v1 (patrons, items, checkouts, holds, biblios, etc.). The OpenAPI/Swagger specification is publicly
    retrievable; most data-modifying and patron endpoints require authentication.
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
  tags:
  - Library
  - Koha
  - REST
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/taylors-library-rest.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
- aid: taylors:library-oai
  name: Taylor's Library OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider exposed by the Koha-powered Taylor's Library catalog for harvesting bibliographic
    metadata. The Identify response returns repository name "Taylor's Library" with earliest records dating to December 2019.
  humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
- aid: taylors:irepo-rest
  name: Taylor's e-Repository DSpace REST API
  description: The Taylor's e-Repository runs on DSpace CRIS (cris-2022.01.01) and exposes a HATEOAS HAL+JSON REST API at
    /server/api covering communities, collections, items, bundles, discovery, statistics, ORCID and external sources. It collects
    research abstracts, theses, dissertations, academic profiles, articles and creative works from Taylor's faculty, staff
    and students.
  humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Research
  - CRIS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
- aid: taylors:irepo-oai
  name: Taylor's e-Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for the DSpace CRIS e-Repository, advertising repository name "Taylor's University
    Library" and OpenAIRE CERIF profile compliance for research-output discovery and aggregation.
  humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
  baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - OpenAIRE
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Taylors-University
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/taylor's-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/taylors-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/taylors-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/taylors-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com