University of Wollongong

aid: university-of-wollongong
name: University of Wollongong
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Wollongong (UOW) is a public research university in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia,
  established in 1951 (ROR 00jtmb277, GRID grid.1007.6, ISNI 0000 0004 0486 528X). UOW operates no public, self-service developer
  portal and publishes no API specification: www.uow.edu.au carries no /api, /apis or /developer page across its 5,092-URL
  sitemap, and there is no llms.txt or .well-known/security.txt. What it does operate that is machine-readable is an identity
  surface, not a data surface — a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider at idp.uow.edu.au whose EntityDescriptor is served
  publicly and is registered in the Australian Access Federation aggregate — plus registry memberships in DataCite, Crossref
  and ROR that carry its own DOI prefixes. Its research and library platforms are vendor tenancies: Research Online (ro.uow.edu.au)
  is a Figshare instance, UOW Scholars (scholars.uow.edu.au) is a Symplectic Elements/Discovery instance, and library discovery
  runs on Ex Libris Primo/Alma. Two institution-hosted API gateways exist under uow.edu.au — an AWS API Gateway behind the
  UOW Handbook at courses.uow.edu.au/api and a MuleSoft CloudHub endpoint at api.uow.edu.au — but neither is publicly documented
  and neither answers an anonymous request.'
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
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Public Research University
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Library
- Course Catalog
- Open Access
- Persistent Identifiers
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-wollongong:idp-saml-metadata
  name: UOW Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
  x-operator: federation
  description: The University of Wollongong's own SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. Its EntityDescriptor is served publicly and
    unauthenticated at https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth (HTTP 200, application/xml, 4,358 bytes) with entityID https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth,
    a shibmd:Scope of uow.edu.au, IdP-Signing and IdP-Encryption X.509 key descriptors, HTTP-POST and HTTP-Redirect SingleSignOnService
    bindings, and the requested attributes auEduPersonSharedToken, email and displayName. The same entity is present in the
    Australian Access Federation aggregate metadata at md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml (HTTP 200, 3,188,501 bytes), which is
    how UOW federates with AAF service providers. The IdP is run on AAF's Rapid IdP managed Shibboleth service — the 404 page
    at idp.uow.edu.au titles itself "Rapid IdP Manager" — but the entity, the scope, the signing keys and the released attributes
    are UOW's. This is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface in the profile.
  humanURL: https://www.uow.edu.au/its/
  baseURL: https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - SSO
  - AAF
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aaf.edu.au/subscribers/
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- aid: university-of-wollongong:research-online-figshare
  name: Research Online (Figshare tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Research Online is UOW''s open access institutional repository, and since its 2025 platform migration it is
    a Figshare tenancy, not the bepress Digital Commons instance the June 2026 profile recorded. Evidence is unambiguous:
    ro.uow.edu.au CNAMEs to proxy-eu-01.figshare.com; requests to it are answered by an AWS WAF challenge (HTTP 202, x-amzn-waf-action:
    challenge) whose body sets awsWafCookieDomainList = [''figshare.com'']; and the Figshare public API returns UOW items
    with url_public_html on ro.uow.edu.au, group_id 57528 and DOIs under the prefix 10.71747, which DataCite lists against
    repository client uow.figshare. The data, the DOI prefix and the branded portal are UOW''s; the contract is Figshare''s
    and is not saved here. The OAI-PMH endpoint the previous profile claimed at /do/oai/ was a bepress path and no OAI response
    could be confirmed on the current platform — every path on the host, including /oai and /do/oai/, returns the same 202
    WAF challenge.'
  humanURL: https://ro.uow.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Open Access
  - Figshare
  - DOI
  - Institutional Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uow.libguides.com/elements/research-online
  - type: Vendor
    url: https://knowledge.figshare.com/
- aid: university-of-wollongong:uow-scholars-symplectic
  name: UOW Scholars (Symplectic Elements / Discovery tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'UOW Scholars is the university''s public researcher-profile portal, running on Symplectic Elements with the
    Symplectic Discovery front end. scholars.uow.edu.au CNAMEs through uow.discovery.symplectic.org to lb.apse.discovery.symplectic.org,
    confirming the tenancy. The portal is a Node/Express application that exposes an /api mount — /api/config answers HTTP
    403 {"error": "Forbidden", "message": "Access denied"} and unknown routes answer the Express 404 "Cannot GET /..." — so
    there is a real HTTP API behind it, but it is not public, not documented and not UOW''s contract. Elements is UOW''s research-output
    reporting and collection system and pushes claimed outputs to ORCID.'
  humanURL: https://scholars.uow.edu.au/
  tags:
  - Research Profiles
  - Symplectic Elements
  - ORCID
  - CRIS
  - Research Information
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uow.libguides.com/elements
  - type: Vendor
    url: https://www.symplectic.co.uk/
- aid: university-of-wollongong:library-primo-alma
  name: UOW Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: The UOW Library runs on the Ex Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery layer, on the
    institution-specific tenant host uow.primo.exlibrisgroup.com (HTTP 200). Primo and Alma expose REST APIs for search, bibliographic
    and resource-management workflows, documented on the Ex Libris Developer Network and gated behind an institution API key.
    UOW publishes no developer documentation of its own for these APIs, and the specification belongs to Ex Libris, so no
    contract is saved here.
  humanURL: https://uow.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/apis/
  - type: LibraryCatalog
    url: https://www.uow.edu.au/library/
- aid: university-of-wollongong:course-handbook-api
  name: UOW Handbook course catalog API (undocumented)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The UOW Handbook at courses.uow.edu.au is a Next.js application served from CloudFront on UOW''s own registrable
    domain and backed by an AWS API Gateway at courses.uow.edu.au/api/. Every anonymous request to that gateway — /api/, /api/search,
    /api/course, /api/subjects, /api/publisher/configuration, /api/openapi.json — returns HTTP 403 {"message": "Missing Authentication
    Token"}, the API Gateway signature for an unmatched or unauthorized route, so no route, schema or specification could
    be recovered. The site''s own robots.txt and sitemap.xml are open (HTTP 200) and the handbook content is fully crawlable
    as HTML. The handbook platform itself is CourseLoop''s curriculum product; the gateway, the domain and the deployment
    are UOW''s. No contract is saved because none is published.'
  humanURL: https://courses.uow.edu.au/
  baseURL: https://courses.uow.edu.au/api/
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Handbook
  - Registrar
  - AWS API Gateway
  - Undocumented
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.uow.edu.au/student/handbook/
  - type: Sitemap
    url: https://courses.uow.edu.au/sitemap.xml
- aid: university-of-wollongong:datacite-membership
  name: DataCite membership (repository uow.figshare)
  x-operator: registry
  description: The University of Wollongong is a DataCite consortium organization, symbol UOW, provider id uow, created 2024-08-26,
    holding the DOI prefix 10.71747 and operating the DataCite repository client uow.figshare. This is a fact about UOW's
    participation in the DOI registry — DataCite's own API contract is not saved here and the membership record is not removed
    for being on a shared host.
  humanURL: https://www.uow.edu.au/library/researchers/
  baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/providers/uow
  tags:
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research Data
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.datacite.org/docs/api
- aid: university-of-wollongong:crossref-membership
  name: Crossref membership (University of Wollongong Library, member 5587)
  x-operator: registry
  description: The University of Wollongong Library is Crossref member 5587, holding the DOI prefix 10.14453 with 1,611 registered
    DOIs (277 current, 1,334 backfile) as of 2026-09-01. The prefix predates the Figshare migration and covers the repository's
    earlier deposits. Crossref's own API contract is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/5587
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Scholarly Publishing
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.crossref.org/swagger-ui/index.html
- aid: university-of-wollongong:ror-registration
  name: ROR registration (00jtmb277)
  x-operator: registry
  description: The University of Wollongong is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/00jtmb277
    (status active, established 1951), cross-walked to Crossref Funder ID 501100001777, GRID grid.1007.6, ISNI 0000 0004 0486
    528X and Wikidata Q1350021. ROR's own API contract is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/00jtmb277
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/00jtmb277
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Organization Identifiers
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ror.readme.io/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://ro.uow.edu.au/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://courses.uow.edu.au/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://uow.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/uowits
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-wollongong/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/about/governance/copyright-and-disclaimer/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/about/contacts/
- type: Status
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/its/scheduled-maintenance/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/about/governance/academic-integrity/genai-in-assessment/
- type: AITooling
  url: https://ltc.uow.edu.au/hub/collection/ai-in-education
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/media/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.uow.edu.au/media/rss/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-wollongong-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-wollongong-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-wollongong-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-wollongong-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-wollongong-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-wollongong-finops.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-wollongong-context.jsonld
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: auth_required
  detail: UOW publishes no API specification and no developer portal, and every callable interface it operates itself is credential-gated.
    The AWS API Gateway behind the UOW Handbook answers every anonymous path with HTTP 403 "Missing Authentication Token";
    the Symplectic Discovery /api mount on scholars.uow.edu.au answers HTTP 403 "Access denied"; and api.uow.edu.au resolves
    in DNS to a MuleSoft CloudHub endpoint (v4fkkn.aus-s1.cloudhub.io) whose TCP 443 and 80 both time out from the public
    internet, so an institution API gateway exists but is not publicly reachable. What is public and machine-readable is the
    SAML 2.0 metadata for UOW's own Shibboleth IdP (HTTP 200, application/xml) plus its DataCite, Crossref and ROR registry
    records. Research Online and UOW Scholars are Figshare and Symplectic tenancies and their contracts belong to those vendors;
    ro.uow.edu.au additionally sits behind an AWS WAF challenge (HTTP 202) that blocks anonymous probing of any path, including
    OAI-PMH.
  evidence:
  - url: https://idp.uow.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/uow
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/5587
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/00jtmb277
    status: 200
  - url: https://courses.uow.edu.au/api/search
    status: 403
  - url: https://scholars.uow.edu.au/api/config
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.uow.edu.au/
    status: 0
  - url: https://ro.uow.edu.au/do/oai/?verb=Identify
    status: 202
  - url: https://ro.uow.edu.au/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 202
  - url: https://www.uow.edu.au/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.uow.edu.au/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-01'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com