# University of Adelaide

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-adelaide/  
**Website:** https://www.adelaide.edu.au/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

The University of Adelaide is a public research university in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 1874, and ranked #72 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, developer-facing footprint is centered on open scholarly infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the "Adelaide Research & Scholarship" institutional repository runs on DSpace 7.6.1 and exposes both a REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint, and the university operates an Adelaide Figshare research-data instance backed by the shared Figshare public API and OAI-PMH. Authentication is handled by a CAS-based single sign-on, and the institution maintains a public GitHub organization built largely around its Drupal "Shepherd" site-management platform. No consolidated, self-service public API developer portal was found.

## Kin Score — 41.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 73.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (12)

- **Adelaide Research & Scholarship REST API** — DSpace 7.6.1 REST (HAL/JSON) API for the University of Adelaide institutional repository "Adelaide Research & Scholarship", exposing communities, collections, items, and bitstre...
- **Adelaide Research & Scholarship OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Adelaide Research & Scholarship" DSpace repository. Confirmed live; the Identify response reports repository name "Adelaide Res...
- **University of Adelaide altmetric API** — The altmetric API from University of Adelaide — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **University of Adelaide articles API** — The articles API from University of Adelaide — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **University of Adelaide authors API** — The authors API from University of Adelaide — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **University of Adelaide collections API** — The collections API from University of Adelaide — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **University of Adelaide institutions API** — The institutions API from University of Adelaide — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **University of Adelaide oauth API** — The oauth API from University of Adelaide — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **University of Adelaide other API** — The other API from University of Adelaide — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **University of Adelaide profiles API** — The profiles API from University of Adelaide — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **University of Adelaide projects API** — The projects API from University of Adelaide — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **University of Adelaide symplectic API** — The symplectic API from University of Adelaide — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Adelaide Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **University Of Adelaide Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **University Of Adelaide Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Adelaide Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Institutional Repository, Open Data, Australia

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-adelaide/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.