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Universiti Sains Malaysia

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.

Universiti Sains Malaysia publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Universiti Sains Malaysia catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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19.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessOAI-PMHMalaysia

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 19.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

USM Repository OAI-PMH

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 resp...

API@USM Developer Portal (Gated)

USM's institutional API developer portal operated by PPKT (Pusat Pengetahuan, Komunikasi dan Teknologi). The landing page describes REST API benefits for integration and innovat...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Usm Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Usm Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Usm Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Usm Context

12 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Usm Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
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: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/usm.png
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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/usm-domain-security.yml
- 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