University of Sydney

aid: university-of-sydney
name: University of Sydney
description: 'The University of Sydney is Australia''s first university, founded in 1850, and is ranked #32 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public digital footprint centers on student, library, and research-data services rather than
  a formal, openly documented developer API program. The library runs on Ex Libris Alma and Primo (which expose vendor APIs
  and OAI-PMH), the Sydney eScholarship Repository offers an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the myUni student portal is backed
  by internal authenticated APIs. Most institutional APIs are gated behind authentication or vendor key issuance, and no central
  public developer portal was found at time of review.'
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/university-of-sydney/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Library
- Research
- Open Data
- Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-sydney:escholarship-oai
  name: Sydney eScholarship Repository (OAI-PMH)
  description: The University of Sydney's institutional repository, Sydney eScholarship, exposes an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
    interface for open-access theses, research outputs, and digital collections. The interface follows the standard OAI-PMH
    2.0 verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord). Automated requests may be rate-limited or require a descriptive
    User-Agent.
  humanURL: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/
- aid: university-of-sydney:primo-alma
  name: Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma)
  description: The University of Sydney Library runs on the Ex Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery
    layer. Ex Libris provides documented Alma REST APIs and Primo Search/PNX APIs, but access requires an institution-issued
    API key via the Ex Libris Developer Network; these are not openly published by the university.
  humanURL: https://sydney.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  - Primo
  - Vendor
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
- aid: university-of-sydney:myuni
  name: myUni Student Portal API (gated)
  description: The myUni student portal is backed by internal JSON APIs (for example student degrees and credits) used by
    the authenticated student web application. These endpoints require an active student session and are not publicly documented
    or available to third-party developers.
  humanURL: https://myuni.sydney.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Student
  - SIS
  - Gated
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://myuni.sydney.edu.au/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sydney.edu.au/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Sydney-Informatics-Hub
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sydney/
- type: Library
  url: https://www.library.sydney.edu.au/
- type: ServicePortal
  url: https://sydneyuni.service-now.com/sm
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-sydney-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-sydney-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-sydney-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com