# University of Canterbury

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-canterbury/  
**Website:** https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha) is a public research university in Christchurch, New Zealand, ranked #261 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-accessible developer footprint is centered on scholarly and research infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the UC Research Repository (a DSpace 7 platform) exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface and a DSpace REST API, the institutional Canterbury Figshare instance is reachable through figshare's public REST and OAI-PMH endpoints, and the College of Engineering runs a self-hosted GitLab. No consolidated, publicly documented university-wide API program was confirmed; entries below reflect only endpoints verified live.

## Kin Score — 42.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 75.1 |
| 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 (13)

- **UC Research Repository OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the UC Research Repository, a DSpace 7 institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research outputs. Verified live (HTTP ...
- **UC Research Repository DSpace REST API** — DSpace 7 REST API backing the UC Research Repository, providing programmatic access to communities, collections and items. The API root (https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api) ...
- **UC Engineering GitLab API** — Self-hosted GitLab instance operated by the University of Canterbury College of Engineering. The web application is reachable (HTTP 200) and the GitLab REST API v4 is present (H...
- **University of Canterbury altmetric API** — The altmetric API from University of Canterbury — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **University of Canterbury articles API** — The articles API from University of Canterbury — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **University of Canterbury authors API** — The authors API from University of Canterbury — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **University of Canterbury collections API** — The collections API from University of Canterbury — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **University of Canterbury institutions API** — The institutions API from University of Canterbury — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **University of Canterbury oauth API** — The oauth API from University of Canterbury — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **University of Canterbury other API** — The other API from University of Canterbury — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **University of Canterbury profiles API** — The profiles API from University of Canterbury — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **University of Canterbury projects API** — The projects API from University of Canterbury — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **University of Canterbury symplectic API** — The symplectic API from University of Canterbury — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

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

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Canterbury Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, Repository, OAI-PMH, New Zealand

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