# Universiti Sains Malaysia

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/usm/  
**Website:** https://www.usm.my/en/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 18.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Usm Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Usm Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Malaysia

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