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Institutional Repository

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Providers using this tag (62)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
University of Michigan-Ann ArborUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University1 API52.6University of HelsinkiEducationHigher EducationUniversityFinland19 APIs49.4Uppsala UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationSweden2 APIs49.4University of BonnUniversityHigher EducationEducationGermany1 API47.5Taylor's UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityPrivate University1 API46.3University of Texas at AustinUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University10 APIs45.3University of LausanneEducationHigher EducationUniversitySwitzerland3 APIs45.2Utrecht UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityNetherlands2 APIs45.2Seoul National UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationSouth Korea6 APIs44.2Lancaster UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited Kingdom2 APIs41.9University of OttawaUniversityHigher EducationEducationCanada6 APIs40.7University of the WitwatersrandUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch2 APIs40.7
Thin 39 Limited public surface area
Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurEducationHigher EducationUniversityInstitute of Technology4 APIs39.0Université de MontréalUniversityHigher EducationEducationCanada2 APIs39.0Carnegie Mellon UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited States6 APIs38.7Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyEducationHigher EducationUniversityTechnical University9 APIs38.6National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityTaiwan1 API38.3Université libre de BruxellesUniversityHigher EducationEducationBelgium4 APIs38.2Massey UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityNew Zealand4 APIs37.6University of Cape TownUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University1 API37.2University of PittsburghUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited States1 API36.0Tokyo Institute of TechnologyEducationHigher EducationUniversityInstitute of Technology2 APIs34.8Imperial College LondonUniversityHigher EducationEducationRussell Group1 API34.5University of Los Andes ColombiaUniversityHigher EducationEducationColombia2 APIs33.7King's College LondonUniversityHigher EducationEducationRussell Group6 APIs33.5Kyushu UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch2 APIs33.5Universiti Sains MalaysiaUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University4 APIs33.1Victoria University of WellingtonUniversityHigher EducationEducationNew Zealand6 APIs32.7Keio UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityJapan4 APIs32.6TU DresdenUniversityHigher EducationEducationGermany7 APIs32.6Vanderbilt UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationPrivate Research University4 APIs32.4University of AntwerpEducationHigher EducationUniversityBelgium2 APIs32.1University of GenevaEducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research University1 API31.9University of QueenslandUniversityHigher EducationEducationAustralia2 APIs31.9Pohang University of Science and TechnologyUniversityHigher EducationEducationSouth Korea2 APIs31.8University of TorontoUniversityHigher EducationEducationCanada1 API31.5University of BaselUniversityHigher EducationEducationSwitzerland7 APIs31.4Universiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch8 APIs30.3National University of ColombiaEducationHigher EducationUniversityPublic Research University2 APIs30.2Heriot-Watt UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationScotland6 APIs29.7UCLouvainUniversityHigher EducationEducationBelgium2 APIs29.5Queensland University of TechnologyUniversityHigher EducationEducationAustralia6 APIs29.4Autonomous University of BarcelonaEducationHigher EducationUniversitySpain2 APIs29.3Tecnológico de MonterreyUniversityHigher EducationEducationMexico11 APIs29.1Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch3 APIs28.8University of RochesterUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited States2 APIs28.2Complutense University of MadridUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University6 APIs27.5University of BernUniversityHigher EducationEducationSwitzerland10 APIs27.1Ohio State UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationUnited States1 API26.6Universitat Pompeu FabraUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University6 APIs26.4Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaUniversityHigher EducationEducationPublic Research University6 APIs26.3
Emerging 11 Early or largely undocumented
American University of BeirutUniversityHigher EducationEducationLebanon11 APIs25.7Queen's University at KingstonUniversityHigher EducationEducationCanada3 APIs25.6University of AberdeenEducationHigher EducationUniversityResearch10 APIs25.0Universiti Putra MalaysiaUniversityHigher EducationEducationMalaysia6 APIs24.9Universiti Teknologi PETRONASUniversityHigher EducationEducationMalaysia4 APIs24.8Tohoku UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationResearch5 APIs24.6Autonomous University of MadridUniversityHigher EducationEducationSpain9 APIs24.1University of NavarraEducationHigher EducationUniversitySpain2 APIs23.1Hokkaido UniversityEducationHigher EducationUniversityJapan10 APIs21.5City University of Hong KongEducationHigher EducationUniversityHong Kong5 APIs19.7National Cheng Kung UniversityUniversityHigher EducationEducationTaiwan4 APIs15.5

APIs with this tag (80)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
UWSpace DSpace REST APIThe REST backend of UWSpace, the University of Waterloo institutional repository, running DSpace 8.4 on a U...60.9
Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DiVA OAI-PMHDiVA (Academic Archive On-line) is Uppsala University Library's institutional repository for publications a...49.4bonndoc DSpace REST API (bot-challenged)bonndoc runs DSpace 7-class software, which exposes a HAL/JSON REST API at /server/api. It is recorded with...47.5bonndoc Publication Server OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for bonndoc, "Der Publikationsserver der Universitaet Bonn" — the university's DSpace-...47.5Purdue e-Pubs OAI-PMH (bepress Digital Commons tenant)Purdue e-Pubs is the university's institutional repository for scholarly output, reachable at docs.lib.purd...47.3Taylor's e-Repository DSpace CRIS REST APIThe Taylor's e-Repository runs DSpace CRIS 2022.01.01 self-hosted at irepo.taylors.edu.my (resolving throug...46.3Taylor's e-Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for the DSpace CRIS e-Repository, Identifying as repositoryName "Taylor's Univers...46.3Texas ScholarWorks DSpace REST APIPublic DSpace REST API for Texas ScholarWorks, the UT Libraries institutional repository of theses, dissert...45.3Texas ScholarWorks OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for Texas ScholarWorks. An Identify request returns repositoryName...45.3Utrecht University Repository REST APIThe DSpace 9.0 HAL/JSON REST API behind the Utrecht University Repository. Openly readable without a key: t...45.2ResearchWorks Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH)ResearchWorks is UW Libraries' institutional repository, running DSpace 9.2 on UW's own host. The DSpace RE...44.5HKU Scholars Hub OAI-PMHHKU Scholars Hub is the University's DSpace-based open-access institutional repository and current research...44.0GT Digital Repository OAI-PMHPublic OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the Georgia Tech Digital Repository, the institutional...42.8GT Digital Repository REST APIDSpace 7.6 REST API for the Georgia Tech Digital Repository, providing programmatic read access to communit...42.8MacSphere Institutional RepositoryMcMaster University Libraries' institutional repository of theses, dissertations and open-access research o...42.8Lancaster EPrints OAI-PMH 2.0 InterfaceThe one unambiguous, institution-operated public API Lancaster runs. A single HTTP endpoint that dispatches...41.9Columbia Academic CommonsColumbia University's institutional research repository, holding the scholarly output, theses and research ...40.6WashU Scholarly Repository (OAI-PMH)The university's institutional repository, "WashU Scholarly Repository", serving a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interfa...40.1
Thin 50 Limited public surface area
DRUM — Digital Repository at the University of MarylandUMD Libraries' DSpace 7 institutional repository of UMD scholarship and research data, and the university's...39.2PAPYRUS DSpace REST API (HAL)The DSpace 8 REST API behind PAPYRUS, answering anonymously at the HAL root and advertising the repository'...39.0PAPYRUS OAI-PMH Endpoint (institutional repository)OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for PAPYRUS, Université de Montréal's institutional repository of open-acc...39.0DR-NTU (Digital Repository) — DSpace-CRIS REST APINTU's institutional publications and research-profile repository — 158,100 research profiles, records back ...38.7KiltHub Institutional Repository (figshare) — tenantKiltHub is Carnegie Mellon's institutional repository for research data and scholarly output. The data, the...38.7NYCU Institutional Repository (DSpace deployment)國立陽明交通大學機構典藏 — the NYCU institutional repository, a self-hosted DSpace 11 deployment with content back to 2...38.3NYCU Institutional Repository OAI-PMH EndpointAnonymous OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over the NYCU institutional repository (國立陽明交通大學機構典藏), running ba...38.3Dartmouth Digital Commons (bepress/Elsevier tenant)Dartmouth's institutional repository for scholarly, research and educational output, running on bepress/Els...38.0eCommons Institutional Repository (DSpace REST + OAI-PMH) — tenanteCommons is Cornell University Library's institutional repository: Cornell's content, Cornell's DOIs, Corne...37.5OpenUCT DSpace REST APIThe OpenUCT repository additionally exposes the DSpace 7 REST API anonymously at open.uct.ac.za/server/api,...37.2OpenUCT Institutional Repository OAI-PMHOpenUCT is the University of Cape Town's open access institutional repository, running DSpace 7.4 on UCT's ...37.2D-Scholarship@Pitt Institutional Repository (Hyku Commons) — tenantD-Scholarship@Pitt is the University Library System's institutional repository of research and scholarly ou...36.0Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API)Imperial's institutional open-access repository, exposed over the DSpace 7 HAL+JSON REST API at https://spi...34.5Repositorio Institucional Seneca - DSpace REST APIDSpace 7 REST API for the "Seneca" repository, under the /server/api path of the deployment. Confirmed to b...33.7Repositorio Institucional Seneca - OAI-PMHOAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for "Seneca", the DSpace 7 institutional repository that collects the...33.7King's College London Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)King's research data repository, operated for King's by Figshare. The data, the DOIs, the DataCite membersh...33.5King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMHThe standards-based harvesting interface for the King's Research Portal, the front end of Pure — how King's...33.5Vanderbilt Institutional Repository (VUIR)Self-hosted DSpace 9.1 institutional repository on Vanderbilt's own domain and infrastructure. The HAL REST...32.4Vanderbilt Institutional Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the Vanderbilt Institutional Repository. Identify returns repositoryNam...32.4VUIR Shibboleth Service ProviderSAML 2.0 Service Provider metadata for the Vanderbilt Institutional Repository, entityID https://ir.vanderb...32.4Archive ouverte UNIGE OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the Archive ouverte UNIGE institutional repository, exposing ...31.9UQ eSpace REST APIREST API behind UQ eSpace, the institutional repository for UQ research outputs and datasets, operated on U...31.9POSTECH dCollection Thesis Repository (KERIS tenancy)POSTECH's tenancy on dCollection, the Korea Education and Research Information Service national digital the...31.8Scholarworks@UAEU OAI-PMH Repository EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Scholarworks@UAEU, the university's open-access institutional ...31.7TSpace DSpace REST API — tenant on ScholarisThe DSpace 8.4 HAL REST API serving TSpace. Verified live on 2026-08-19: the root document returns dspaceNa...31.5TSpace Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH) — tenant on ScholarisOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for TSpace, the University of Toronto Libraries institutional research repo...31.5edoc DSpace REST APIPublic DSpace REST API for "edoc", the open-access institutional repository of the University of Basel, run...31.4edoc OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for edoc. Identify reports repositoryName "edoc: Open Access Repo...31.4Chula DigiVerse — Institutional Digital RepositoryThe university's digital preservation platform for theses, dissertations, rare books, multimedia and digiti...31.3UKM Journal Article Repository (OAI-PMH) — unreachableEPrints repository of journal articles published by UKM faculties, institutes and UKM Press, registered in ...30.3Scholarship@Western on Scholaris — DSpace REST API (tenant)The HAL+JSON REST API of Western University's Open Repository, reachable anonymously at https://uwo.scholar...29.9Heriot-Watt Research Output Service (ROS)The university's own institutional repository of theses and research outputs, running DSpace 8 on www.ros.h...29.7DIAL.mem -- DSpace-CRIS REST APIDIAL.mem is UCLouvain's institutional repository for master's theses, part of the DIAL (Digital Access to L...29.5DIAL.pr (BOREAL) -- DSpace-CRIS REST APIDIAL.pr, branded BOREAL, is UCLouvain's institutional repository for the research publications of its profe...29.5DIAL.pr OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for DIAL.pr, UCLouvain's research-publications repository. Identify returns...29.5RITEC Institutional Repository — DSpace REST APIRITEC (repositorio.tec.mx) is the institution's DSpace 8.0 institutional repository, holding 86,310 discove...29.1RITEC Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for RITEC, verified live on 2026-09-01. Identify returns repositoryName "Repositorio I...29.1edoc-Server DSpace REST APIPublic, unauthenticated read API of the edoc-Server, the Open Access institutional repository of Humboldt-U...28.8edoc-Server OAI-PMH 2.0 InterfaceOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the edoc institutional repository, on HU's own host. ?verb=Ide...28.8Research Online (Figshare tenancy)Research Online is UOW's open access institutional repository, and since its 2025 platform migration it is ...27.7Docta Complutense OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for Docta Complutense, on UCM's own host. Probed 2026-08-30: verb=Identify ...27.5Docta Complutense Repository API (DSpace 7)Docta Complutense is UCM's open-access institutional repository, migrated in 2023 to DSpace 7 and self-host...27.5QSpace Institutional Repository (Open Repository tenant)QSpace is Qatar University's institutional repository — 66,950 records, DSpace 7.6, administered by Qatar U...27.3OpenBU Repository — OAI-PMH and DSpace REST (Atmire-operated)OpenBU is Boston University Libraries' open-access institutional repository. The content, the collections a...27.1Knowledge Bank DSpace REST APIREST API for the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University Libraries' DSpace 7.6 institutional repository. Expo...26.6Knowledge Bank OAI-PMH InterfaceOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Knowledge Bank institutional repository, supporting the st...26.6UPF Digital Repository OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for e-Repositori, on UPF's own host. Probed 2026-09-01: verb=Ident...26.4UPF Digital Repository REST API (DSpace 7)e-Repositori (Repositori digital de la UPF) is UPF's open-access institutional repository, self-hosted on U...26.4UTM Institutional Repository (UTM-IR) EPrints OAI-PMH — unreachableThe older EPrints institutional repository, registered with ROAR (record 1358), OpenDOAR and Sherpa (record...26.3UTMIK Repository (DSpace-CRIS) — OAI-PMH and RESTUTM's institutional knowledge repository, running DSpace-CRIS on utmik.utm.my (161.139.22.165, inside UTM's...26.3
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
QSpace — Queen's University Institutional Repository (DSpace on Scholaris)QSpace is Queen's open-access institutional repository for theses, dissertations and scholarship. The repos...25.6AURA DSpace REST API (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)The Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA) runs DSpace 8.1-SNAPSHOT and exposes a public HATEOAS REST ...25.0AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)AURA's OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, repositoryName "Aura", repositoryIdentifier aura.abdn.ac.uk, adminEmail aura-m...25.0TOUR Institutional Repository OAI-PMHOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for TOUR (TOhoku University Repository). The collection, the depar...24.6Biblos-e Archivo OAI-PMH EndpointOAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for Biblos-e Archivo. Identify returns repositoryName "Biblos-e Ar...24.1Biblos-e Archivo REST API (DSpace 7)HAL-based REST API for Biblos-e Archivo, UAM's institutional repository, running DSpace 7.6.5. Anonymously ...24.1DADUN Institutional Repository (OAI-PMH)DADUN (Deposito Academico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra) is the university's open-access institution...23.1HAL-ENS Open Archive — ENS-PARIS collectionENS research output is deposited into the ENS-PARIS collection of HAL, the French national open archive ope...22.2Campus-Network-Gated Systems (repository, OPAC, portal)Three university systems resolve into TJU's own address block but are unreachable from outside the campus n...21.7CityUHK Scholars OAI-PMHPublic OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for CityUHK Scholars, the university's research information system and institut...19.7CityUHK Scholars Pure Web Service (tenant deployment)CityUHK's deployment of the Elsevier Pure REST web service, reachable at https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/ws/a...19.7NCKU Institutional Repository (NCKUR, DSpace)NCKUR is NCKU's institutional repository — theses, dissertations and university scholarly output under hand...15.5

Companies reaching this through an API (20)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Institutional Repository” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Boston University Chulalongkorn University Columbia University Cornell University Dartmouth College Georgia Institute of Technology McMaster University Nanyang Technological University Purdue University Qatar University Tianjin University United Arab Emirates University University of Hong Kong University of Maryland College Park University of Washington University of Waterloo University of Wollongong Washington University in St. Louis Western University École Normale Supérieure de Paris

Score breakdown

Frequency
57.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
38.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DSpace 43 co-occurrences OAI-PMH 75 co-occurrences University 82 co-occurrences Research Data 68 co-occurrences Shibboleth 61 co-occurrences ROR 39 co-occurrences Open Access 61 co-occurrences SAML 75 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag62
Api tag80

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 62 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Institutional Repository, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
62
all scored
Mean Kin Score
33.3
+10.4 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
19.4
+7.5 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
15.5–52.6
median 32.3 · σ 7.8
How the 62 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 0Developing 12Thin 39Emerging 11Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 40.1 26.5 +13.6 62
Contract Quality 31 17.6 +13.4 62
Discoverability 66.5 58.1 +8.4 62
Contract Governance 14.1 6.3 +7.8 62
Operational Transparency 20.5 13.7 +6.8 62
Developer Ergonomics 27.9 23.2 +4.7 62

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 0% 14% -14
MCP server (first-party) 2% 12% -10
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 24% 11% +13
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 48% 14% +34

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 52.6
  2. 2 Uppsala University 49.4
  3. 3 University of Helsinki 48.8
  4. 4 University of Bonn 47.5
  5. 5 Taylor's University 46.3
  6. 6 University of Texas at Austin 45.3
  7. 7 University of Lausanne 45.2
  8. 8 Utrecht University 44.3
  9. 9 Seoul National University 44.2
  10. 10 Lancaster University 41.4
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Queensland University of Technology 34.7
  2. 2 Massey University 33.3
  3. 3 Carnegie Mellon University 32.1
  4. 4 University of Ottawa 30.4
  5. 5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 30
  6. 6 Keio University 28.7
  7. 7 University of Geneva 28.5
  8. 8 University of Texas at Austin 28
  9. 9 Taylor's University 27.7
  10. 10 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 27.1
All 62 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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