Tohoku University

aid: tohoku
name: Tohoku University
description: 'Tohoku University is a national research university in Sendai, Japan, founded in 1907 and ranked #107 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on scholarly infrastructure
  rather than a central developer portal: the TOUR (TOhoku University Repository) institutional repository runs on NII''s
  JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3) and exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for metadata harvesting. The library also operates a public
  OPAC. No central, self-service API developer portal, open-data platform, or SSO/OAuth client-registration program was found
  publicly documented; most research-code APIs live in individual lab GitHub organizations.'
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/tohoku/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Japan
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: tohoku:tour-oai-pmh
  name: TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository), the university's institutional
    repository hosted on NII JAIRO Cloud (WEKO3). Verified live, returning a valid Identify response ("Tohoku University Repository（TOUR）",
    protocol version 2.0). Supports oai_dc (Dublin Core), JPCOAR (1.0/2.0), DDI 2.5, and IEEE LOM metadata formats via standard
    verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, GetRecord, ListSets, ListIdentifiers).
  humanURL: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/
  baseURL: https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Research
  - JPCOAR
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/support/openaccess/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cl-tohoku
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tohoku-univ/
- type: Library
  url: https://www.library.tohoku.ac.jp/en/
- type: Catalog
  url: https://opac.library.tohoku.ac.jp/opac/opac_search/?lang=1&smode=1
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tohoku-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tohoku-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tohoku-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com