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.
United Arab Emirates University is listed with 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, United Arab Emirates, and Middle East.
The United Arab Emirates University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
United Arab Emirates University’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.
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Idempotency+9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
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 — Banne...
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 repositoryN...
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 docu...
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 ope...
United Arab Emirates University API pricing
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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
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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: open
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
gated: none
gated_source:
- onboarding
label: Free · Open access
confidence: high
probe_state: none
source:
- plans
- authentication
- scopes
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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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-developer-program
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
United Arab Emirates University API — frequently asked questions
Does United Arab Emirates University have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from United Arab Emirates University, including UAEU Enterprise Identity Service (OIDC / SAML 2.0 / SCIM 2.0), Scholarworks@UAEU OAI-PMH Repository Endpoint and UAEU Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) — tenant deployment, and 1 more.
How do I authenticate with the United Arab Emirates University API?
United Arab Emirates University uses bearer-token authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as United Arab Emirates University Authentication.
How much does the United Arab Emirates University API cost?
APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for United Arab Emirates University, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the United Arab Emirates University API ready for AI agents?
United Arab Emirates University has a Kin Score of 25.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 3.1 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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