United Arab Emirates University

aid: united-arab-emirates-university
name: United Arab Emirates University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) is the UAE''s national public research university, founded 1976 in Al
  Ain, Abu Dhabi. Its machine-readable footprint is small, and almost all of what appears under its name is a vendor''s contract
  running on a UAEU-branded host. Exactly one surface is institution-operated: the UAEU enterprise identity service at eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae,
  a WSO2 Identity Server deployment on the university''s own domain and certificate, which serves unauthenticated OpenID Connect
  discovery, SAML 2.0 IdP metadata and a SCIM 2.0 ServiceProviderConfig. Everything else is a tenancy. Scholarworks@UAEU (scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae)
  answers OAI-PMH 2.0 but CNAMEs to dcuaeu.bepress.com and reports adminEmail dc-support@elsevier.com — bepress Digital Commons.
  research.uaeu.ac.ae CNAMEs to uaeu.elsevierpure.com and serves a complete 827-path Elsevier "Pure API" OpenAPI at /ws/api/openapi.json;
  that contract is Elsevier''s and is deliberately NOT saved in this repository. The LMS is a Blackboard tenant, library discovery
  is OCLC WorldCat, and UAEU''s open data is published as an organization account on the UAE federal portal rather than on
  its own infrastructure. UAEU does hold its own DataCite provider account (MIWJ) and Crossref membership (prefix 10.36771).
  There is no public developer portal, no self-service API program, no UAEU-authored OpenAPI, and no agent surface — every
  well-known path probed returns the site''s soft-404 page.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/united-arab-emirates-university.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-arab-emirates-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Arab Emirates
- Middle East
- Public Research University
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Open Data
- OAI-PMH
- SCIM
- SAML
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no_public_api
  detail: 'UAEU operates no public API program — no developer portal, no API key self-service, no UAEU-authored OpenAPI, and
    no agent surface. What machine readability exists falls into two buckets, neither of which is an API product. First, three
    standards-mandated discovery documents on the university''s own identity service (eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae): OIDC discovery,
    SAML 2.0 IdP metadata and a SCIM 2.0 ServiceProviderConfig, all 200 unauthenticated. These are saved as artifacts and
    are the only institution-operated machine-readable surface found. Second, a stack of vendor tenancies — bepress Digital
    Commons, Elsevier Pure, Blackboard, OCLC WorldCat, Springshare LibGuides, Ellucian Banner, and an organization account
    on the UAE federal open data portal. The Pure deployment publishes a complete Elsevier OpenAPI without authentication;
    it was found, read and deliberately not saved, because the contract is Elsevier''s. Every agent and API well-known path
    on www.uaeu.ac.ae (llms.txt, ai.txt, apis.json, openapi.json, .well-known/agent.json, .well-known/mcp.json, .well-known/ai-plugin.json,
    .well-known/security.txt) returns HTTP 200 with the site''s ~112KB HTML 404 page — soft-404s, credited to nothing.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/oauth2/oidcdiscovery/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/identity/metadata/saml2
    status: 200
  - url: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/scim2/ServiceProviderConfig
    status: 200
  - url: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/do/oai/?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/ws/api/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/ws/api/524/persons
    status: 401
  - url: https://opendata.fcsc.gov.ae/api/3/action/package_search?q=uaeu
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/uitsws/repos
    status: 200
apis:
- aid: united-arab-emirates-university:uaeu-identity-service
  name: UAEU Enterprise Identity Service (OIDC / SAML 2.0 / SCIM 2.0)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The university''s own single sign-on service, running on UAEU''s registrable domain under a certificate issued
    to *.uaeu.ac.ae. It is the login point for UAEU applications — Banner Self-Service at ssb.uaeu.ac.ae redirects into it
    — and it publishes three unauthenticated discovery documents: OpenID Connect configuration (issuer eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae:9443),
    SAML 2.0 IdP metadata (entityID eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae) and a SCIM 2.0 ServiceProviderConfig declaring patch, filter and bulk
    support. Ten OAuth scopes and twenty-nine OIDC claims are advertised. All operational endpoints require a registered client;
    dynamic client registration is advertised but has no public onboarding path. This is institutional plumbing, not an API
    product, and it is recorded as such.'
  humanURL: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/vc/doit/
  baseURL: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Single Sign-On
  - OpenID Connect
  - SAML
  - SCIM
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/united-arab-emirates-university-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/united-arab-emirates-university-scopes.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/united-arab-emirates-university-domain-standards.yml
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/oauth2/oidcdiscovery/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/identity/metadata/saml2
- aid: united-arab-emirates-university:scholarworks-oai-pmh
  name: Scholarworks@UAEU OAI-PMH Repository Endpoint
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Scholarworks@UAEU, the university''s open-access institutional
    repository. Verified live returning valid OAI-PMH XML with repositoryName "Scholarworks@UAEU", repositoryIdentifier scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae,
    earliestDatestamp 2000-01-19, and five metadata prefixes. TENANT, NOT INSTITUTION: scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae is a CNAME
    to dcuaeu.bepress.com and the Identify response reports adminEmail dc-support@elsevier.com. The repository, its content,
    its sets and its DataCite DOIs are UAEU''s; the OAI-PMH implementation is bepress Digital Commons, an Elsevier product.
    No bepress contract is saved under this institution.'
  humanURL: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/
  baseURL: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/do/oai/
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Digital Commons
  - Library
  x-vendor: bepress Digital Commons (Elsevier)
  x-vendor-evidence: CNAME dcuaeu.bepress.com; OAI Identify adminEmail dc-support@elsevier.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/about.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/do/oai/?verb=Identify
- aid: united-arab-emirates-university:pure-research-portal
  name: UAEU Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) — tenant deployment
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'UAEU''s research information system and public research portal, at research.uaeu.ac.ae, which CNAMEs to uaeu.elsevierpure.com.
    The deployment serves a complete OpenAPI 3.0.1 document at /ws/api/openapi.json without authentication — 827 paths, info.title
    "Pure API", version 5.36.2-1, info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com, and servers[] of "/ws/api" (relative, so a
    host-based ownership check is blind to it — the exact hostless class that caused Manchester''s 36 Pure specs to be misattributed).
    THE CONTRACT IS ELSEVIER''S AND IS NOT SAVED IN THIS REPOSITORY. What is recorded here is the relationship: UAEU is a
    Pure customer whose research data is exposed through Elsevier''s contract. All data endpoints return 401 without an api-key
    header.'
  humanURL: https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/
  baseURL: https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - CRIS
  - Elsevier Pure
  - Research Repository
  x-vendor: Elsevier Pure
  x-vendor-evidence: CNAME uaeu.elsevierpure.com; info.title "Pure API"; info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com; servers[]
    "/ws/api"
  x-do-not-save: The OpenAPI at research.uaeu.ac.ae/ws/api/openapi.json is Elsevier's product contract. Saving it under this
    institution is the exact misattribution the university pipeline exists to prevent.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/
- aid: united-arab-emirates-university:fcsc-open-data
  name: UAEU Open Data on the UAE Federal Open Data Portal (CKAN)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: UAEU publishes open datasets as an organization account on the UAE federal open data portal operated by the
    Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre, built on CKAN. The operator is the UAE federal government, not the university;
    UAEU holds an account on it. Every programmatic probe of the CKAN Action API returns HTTP 403 behind Cloudflare bot mitigation,
    with a browser User-Agent as well as without, so the endpoint is bot-blocked rather than dead. UAEU's own open data pages
    link to the national bayanat.ae portal, which is reachable. UAEU operates no CKAN, Socrata or other open data portal of
    its own.
  humanURL: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/open-data/
  baseURL: https://opendata.fcsc.gov.ae/api/3/action/
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - CKAN
  - Datasets
  - Government
  - Research
  x-vendor: UAE Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC)
  x-vendor-evidence: host opendata.fcsc.gov.ae is a UAE federal government portal shared by all national organizations
  x-probe-status: 403
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/open-data/uaeu-open-data-policy.shtml
  - type: OpenData
    url: https://bayanat.ae/en/Datasets?entity=bqLbsntKAtMpaPDNRxEFaklu-jeZNTuoyik5Y4xeZNA
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/uitsws
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/united-arab-emirates-university/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/website/terms_of_use.shtml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/website/privacy_policy.shtml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/news/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://eisprod.uaeu.ac.ae/identity/metadata/saml2
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://scholarworks.uaeu.ac.ae/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://uaeu.on.worldcat.org/discovery
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/catalog/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/open-data/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/about/pdfs/policies-2025/generative-ai-policy.pdf
- type: Library
  url: https://www.uaeu.ac.ae/en/library/
- type: Research
  url: https://research.uaeu.ac.ae/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/united-arab-emirates-university-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/united-arab-emirates-university-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/united-arab-emirates-university-domain-standards.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/united-arab-emirates-university-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/united-arab-emirates-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/united-arab-emirates-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/united-arab-emirates-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-identifiers:
  ror: https://ror.org/01km6p862
  datacite_provider: MIWJ
  datacite_repository: miwj.klmvdh
  crossref_member: '22532'
  crossref_prefix: '10.36771'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com