Universiti Sains Malaysia

aid: usm
name: Universiti Sains Malaysia
description: 'Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is a public research university founded in 1969 and headquartered in Penang,
  Malaysia, holding APEX (Accelerated Programme for Excellence) status and ranked #146 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest: USM operates an API developer portal at api.usm.my run by the Pusat
  Pengetahuan, Komunikasi dan Teknologi (PPKT), but the catalog and documentation sit behind authentication. The most openly
  accessible machine-readable interface is the EPrints-based institutional repository at eprints.usm.my, which exposes a live
  OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint.'
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/usm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Malaysia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: usm:eprints-oai
  name: USM Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the USM Repository (Repository@USM), an EPrints 3.3.16 institutional
    repository of USM research and publications. The Identify response confirms repositoryName "USM Repository", protocolVersion
    2.0, admin contact eprints@usm.my, granularity to the second, and a persistent deleted-record policy. Supports standard
    OAI verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, GetRecord, etc.).
  humanURL: https://eprints.usm.my/
  baseURL: https://eprints.usm.my/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - EPrints
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.usm.my/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://eprints.usm.my/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- aid: usm:api-portal
  name: API@USM Developer Portal (Gated)
  description: USM's institutional API developer portal operated by PPKT (Pusat Pengetahuan, Komunikasi dan Teknologi). The
    landing page describes REST API benefits for integration and innovation, but the API catalog, endpoints, and documentation
    are behind a login; no public specifications or endpoints are exposed to unauthenticated users.
  humanURL: https://api.usm.my/
  tags:
  - Developer Portal
  - REST
  - Gated
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.usm.my/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://api.usm.my/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.usm.my/en/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.usm.my/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universiti-sains-malaysia-official/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/usm-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/usm-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/usm-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com