Taylor's University is a private research university in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, ranked #251 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates no developer portal, no public API programme and no public code: the Taylors-University GitHub organisation has existed since 2020 and still holds zero public repositories. What it does operate, on its own infrastructure under taylors.edu.my, are four live machine-readable surfaces — a self-hosted Koha library system exposing a REST API at /api/v1 and an OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider, and a self-hosted DSpace CRIS e-Repository exposing a HAL+JSON REST API at /server/api and a second OAI-PMH 2.0 provider. Both REST contracts are the upstream products' own documents (Koha Development Team; DSpace CRIS 2022.01.01) running on Taylor's servers: the deployment, the data and the DOIs are the institution's, the contract is not. Identity runs through a Microsoft Entra ID tenant whose SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect metadata are publicly retrievable, and the institution is registered with ROR and holds a Crossref membership through Taylor's University Press. No open data portal, no course-catalog or timetable API, and no institution-operated developer documentation were found.
Taylor’s University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Taylor’s Library Koha REST API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Private University, and Malaysia.
The Taylor’s University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Taylor’s University’s developer surface includes API reference, support, GitHub presence, authentication, and 15 more developer resources.
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REST API of the Taylor's University Library catalog, served under /api/v1 by a Koha integrated library system that Taylor's self-hosts (librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my resolves ...
OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider exposed by the Koha-powered Taylor's Library catalog for harvesting bibliographic metadata. The Identify response returns repositoryName "Taylor's Libr...
The Taylor's e-Repository runs DSpace CRIS 2022.01.01 self-hosted at irepo.taylors.edu.my (resolving through irepo.wip.taylors.edu.my to 103.145.155.17 — again Taylor's own infr...
OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for the DSpace CRIS e-Repository, Identifying as repositoryName "Taylor's University Library", repositoryIdentifier irepo.taylors.edu.my, protocolVersi...
Taylor's operates a Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 0a39ee13-5c27-420c-b0af-8e65c6929055, branded "Taylor's Education Group", as the identity provider behind taylors.edu.my. The real...
Taylor's University Press is Crossref member 37785, registered at Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, holding DOI prefix 10.58946 with 70 deposited DOIs. This is a membership fact ...
Taylor's University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as ror.org/0498pcx51, located Subang Jaya, Malaysia, cross-walked to Crossref Funder ID 501100011915, GRI...
aid: taylors
name: Taylor's University
x-type: university
x-category: Private Research University
description: 'Taylor''s University is a private research university in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, ranked #251 in the
QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates no developer portal, no public API programme and no public code: the Taylors-University
GitHub organisation has existed since 2020 and still holds zero public repositories. What it does operate, on its own infrastructure
under taylors.edu.my, are four live machine-readable surfaces — a self-hosted Koha library system exposing a REST API at
/api/v1 and an OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider, and a self-hosted DSpace CRIS e-Repository exposing a HAL+JSON REST API at /server/api
and a second OAI-PMH 2.0 provider. Both REST contracts are the upstream products'' own documents (Koha Development Team;
DSpace CRIS 2022.01.01) running on Taylor''s servers: the deployment, the data and the DOIs are the institution''s, the
contract is not. Identity runs through a Microsoft Entra ID tenant whose SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect metadata are publicly
retrievable, and the institution is registered with ROR and holds a Crossref membership through Taylor''s University Press.
No open data portal, no course-catalog or timetable API, and no institution-operated developer documentation were found.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: self-serve
trial: false
try_now: true
public: false
label: Free · Self-serve signup
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- authentication
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
position: Consuming
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
- Private University
- Malaysia
- Asia
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Institutional Repository
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Koha
- DSpace
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Every surface in this profile was probed live on 2026-09-01 and returned a real payload, not a link. Four institution-hosted
machine interfaces are reachable (Koha REST, Koha OAI-PMH, DSpace CRIS REST, DSpace OAI-PMH), plus an Entra ID identity-federation
surface and two registry memberships. The footprint is genuinely narrow and the profile says so: no developer portal,
no open data portal, no course-catalog or registrar API, no public GitHub repositories, no llms.txt and no security.txt.
Both self-hosted REST contracts are the upstream products'' documents rather than Taylor''s engineering, which is recorded
on each entry rather than hidden.'
evidence:
- url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
status: 200
- url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
status: 200
- url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/0a39ee13-5c27-420c-b0af-8e65c6929055/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
status: 200
- url: https://api.crossref.org/members/37785
status: 200
- url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/0498pcx51
status: 200
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/Taylors-University
status: 200
- url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/.well-known/security.txt
status: 404
- url: https://api.taylors.edu.my/
status: 0
- url: https://data.taylors.edu.my/
status: 0
- url: https://developer.taylors.edu.my/
status: 0
- url: https://courses.taylors.edu.my/
status: 0
apis:
- aid: taylors:library-rest
name: Taylor's Library Koha REST API
x-operator: institution
x-contract-author: Koha Development Team (https://koha-community.org/)
description: REST API of the Taylor's University Library catalog, served under /api/v1 by a Koha integrated library system
that Taylor's self-hosts (librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my resolves through librarycatalogue.wip.taylors.edu.my to 103.145.154.51,
Taylor's own infrastructure — no vendor CNAME). The live Swagger 2.0 definition is publicly retrievable and describes
213 paths across 76 tags with 113 definitions; its info.contact is the Koha Development Team, so the DEPLOYMENT is Taylor's
and the CONTRACT is the Koha community's. The OpenAPI documents registered here are a verified subset covering only the
six resources whose object schemas were confirmed present in the live definition (patron, checkout, hold, item, library,
item_type); they are refine-split per tag and are recorded as one surface, not six, because they describe one deployment.
Collection and resource endpoints require authentication (HTTP 401 to anonymous clients); the specification document itself
is public.
humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Koha
- REST
tags_raw:
- patrons
- checkouts
- holds
- items
- libraries
- item_types
properties:
- type: APIReference
url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
- type: Documentation
url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/taylors-patrons-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/taylors-checkouts-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/taylors-holds-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/taylors-items-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/taylors-item-types-api-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/taylors-libraries-api-openapi.yml
- 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: Examples
url: examples/taylors-getCheckout-example.json
- type: Examples
url: examples/taylors-getItem-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
x-operator: institution
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider exposed by the Koha-powered Taylor's Library catalog for harvesting bibliographic
metadata. The Identify response returns repositoryName "Taylor's Library", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail library.general@taylors.edu.my,
earliestDatestamp 2019-12-05 and gzip compression support; ListMetadataFormats returns oai_dc, marc21 and marcxml. Anonymous,
unauthenticated and institution-hosted — the strongest genuinely open surface Taylor's runs.
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
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/taylors-conformance.yml
- aid: taylors:irepo-rest
name: Taylor's e-Repository DSpace CRIS REST API
x-operator: institution
x-contract-author: DSpace CRIS (cris-2022.01.01)
description: The Taylor's e-Repository runs DSpace CRIS 2022.01.01 self-hosted at irepo.taylors.edu.my (resolving through
irepo.wip.taylors.edu.my to 103.145.155.17 — again Taylor's own infrastructure, no vendor CNAME) and exposes a HATEOAS
HAL+JSON REST API at /server/api covering communities, collections, items, bundles, discovery, statistics and 21 external-source
integrations. It holds research abstracts, theses, dissertations, academic profiles, articles and creative works from
Taylor's faculty, staff and students. The API root and /discover/search/objects answer anonymously; /core/items returns
401. The contract is the DSpace CRIS product's, the deployment and its content are Taylor's. Note that the OpenAIRE CERIF
service description advertised on the OAI endpoint is still DSpace default boilerplate (unresolved ${dspace.url} placeholders
and the stock "An example CRIS…" text), so OpenAIRE CERIF compliance is advertised but not configured.
humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- REST
- Research Data
- CRIS
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/taylors-conformance.yml
- aid: taylors:irepo-oai
name: Taylor's e-Repository OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for the DSpace CRIS e-Repository, Identifying as repositoryName "Taylor's University
Library", repositoryIdentifier irepo.taylors.edu.my, protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2022-11-28, adminEmail ChangNguan.Ting@taylors.edu.my.
ListMetadataFormats returns eleven prefixes — oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, ore, rdf, marc, dim, didl, etdms and uketd_dc —
making this the richest harvesting surface the institution operates.
humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Harvesting
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/taylors-conformance.yml
- aid: taylors:entra-identity-federation
name: Taylor's University Identity Federation (Microsoft Entra ID)
x-operator: federation
description: 'Taylor''s operates a Microsoft Entra ID tenant, 0a39ee13-5c27-420c-b0af-8e65c6929055, branded "Taylor''s Education
Group", as the identity provider behind taylors.edu.my. The realm is NameSpaceType "Managed" — cloud-native, not federated
to an on-premises AD FS — and both its SAML 2.0 federation metadata (entityID https://sts.windows.net/0a39ee13-5c27-420c-b0af-8e65c6929055/,
signed, 28KB) and its OpenID Connect discovery document are publicly retrievable. This is the institution''s own identity
surface: a federation is shared by definition and the IdP behind it is theirs. Taylor''s does NOT appear in eduGAIN, and
Malaysia''s national federation SIFULAN carries no Taylor''s entity, so Entra ID is the whole of the federation story
here. The Koha catalog integrates this tenant for OPAC sign-in.'
humanURL: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en.html
baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/0a39ee13-5c27-420c-b0af-8e65c6929055/v2.0
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- Entra ID
- Single Sign-On
properties:
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/0a39ee13-5c27-420c-b0af-8e65c6929055/federationmetadata/2007-06/federationmetadata.xml
- type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/taylors.edu.my/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/taylors-conformance.yml
- aid: taylors:crossref-membership
name: Taylor's University Crossref Membership
x-operator: registry
description: Taylor's University Press is Crossref member 37785, registered at Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, holding
DOI prefix 10.58946 with 70 deposited DOIs. This is a membership fact about the institution — it registers DOIs, which
is a fact about them, not a misattribution — recorded here as a relationship. Crossref's own API contract is deliberately
NOT saved under this institution.
humanURL: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en/research-and-enterprise/about-us/taylors-press.html
baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/37785
tags:
- Registry
- DOI
- Crossref
- Scholarly Publishing
properties:
- type: Registration
url: https://api.crossref.org/members/37785
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/taylors-conformance.yml
- aid: taylors:ror-registration
name: Taylor's University ROR Registration
x-operator: registry
description: Taylor's University is registered in the Research Organization Registry as ror.org/0498pcx51, located Subang
Jaya, Malaysia, cross-walked to Crossref Funder ID 501100011915, GRID grid.452879.5, ISNI 0000 0004 0647 0003 and Wikidata
Q841775. A registration the institution holds, not a contract it operates; the ROR API is never saved as theirs.
humanURL: https://ror.org/0498pcx51
baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/0498pcx51
tags:
- Registry
- Organization Identifier
- ROR
properties:
- type: Registration
url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/0498pcx51
common:
- type: Website
url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en.html
- type: APIReference
url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/taylors.edu.my/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en/privacy-policy.html
- type: Support
url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en/get-in-touch/contact-information.html
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/Taylors-University
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/taylor's-university/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/taylors-conformance.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
url: capabilities/taylors-capability-edges.yml
name: Taylor's University Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/taylors-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/taylors-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/taylors-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/taylors-scopes.yml
- 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
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