Curtin University

---
aid: curtin
name: Curtin University
description: >-
  Curtin University is a public research university based in Perth, Western
  Australia, and is ranked #174 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Curtin
  operates an institutional research repository (espace, built on Ex Libris
  Primo/Esploro), contributes datasets to the national Research Data Australia
  registry, and maintains several department-level open-source GitHub
  organizations. As of this review Curtin does not publish a centralized public
  developer portal or a documented general-purpose API program; the developer
  footprint is limited to library/repository discovery platforms and
  research-data harvesting interfaces operated through third-party platforms.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/curtin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Library
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: curtin:espace
    name: Curtin espace Institutional Repository
    description: >-
      espace is Curtin University's open-access institutional repository of
      research publications and higher-degree-by-research theses, delivered on
      the Ex Libris Primo/Esploro discovery platform. Historically the
      repository exposed an OAI-PMH harvesting interface for metadata; the
      legacy endpoint now redirects into the Primo discovery layer and no
      current public, documented API endpoint could be independently confirmed
      during this review.
    humanURL: https://espace.curtin.edu.au/
    tags: [ Repository, Research, Library, OAI-PMH, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://espace.curtin.edu.au/
  - aid: curtin:researchdata
    name: Curtin Research Data (via Research Data Australia)
    description: >-
      Curtin University publishes research data collection records through the
      national Research Data Australia (RDA) registry operated by the Australian
      Research Data Commons (ARDC). Curtin's records are discoverable and
      harvestable through RDA's platform-level interfaces; Curtin itself does
      not operate a documented public data API for this collection.
    humanURL: https://researchdata.edu.au/contributors/curtin-university
    tags: [ Research, Open Data, Datasets, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.edu.au/contributors/curtin-university
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.curtin.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/CurtinIDS
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Curtin-Open-Knowledge-Initiative
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/curtin-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/curtin-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/curtin-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/curtin-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]