Hong Kong Baptist University

---
aid: hong-kong-baptist-university
name: Hong Kong Baptist University
description: >-
  Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded research university in
  Hong Kong SAR, ranked #253 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public,
  machine-readable footprint centers on research information: the HKBU Scholars
  research portal is powered by Elsevier Pure, which exposes a documented Pure Web
  Service API (OpenAPI 3) for research outputs, persons, organisations, and related
  metadata. HKBU also operates a mobile-app backend and various library and digital
  scholarship platforms, though most of these are gated or undocumented for external
  developers and require institutional affiliation. There is no central institutional
  developer portal or organization-wide GitHub org; public code is published by
  individual research groups.
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/hong-kong-baptist-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Hong Kong
  - Pure
  - Research Information
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: hong-kong-baptist-university:pure-research-api
    name: HKBU Scholars Pure Web Service API
    description: >-
      REST web service API for the HKBU Scholars research portal, powered by Elsevier
      Pure. Exposes the Pure data model (research outputs, persons, organisations,
      projects, activities, and related metadata) as a graph of interconnected
      resources over standard HTTP methods. The OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract is publicly
      retrievable and interactive RapiDoc documentation is served from the same host;
      data endpoints require an API key (return HTTP 401 without one).
    humanURL: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
    baseURL: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/
    tags: [ Research, Research Information, Pure, Metadata, Scholarly ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/openapi.yaml
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/hong-kong-baptist-university-pure-research-api.yaml
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/hong-kong-baptist-university-research-output-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/hong-kong-baptist-university-person-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/hong-kong-baptist-university-organization-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/hong-kong-baptist-university-research-output-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/hong-kong-baptist-university-person-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/hong-kong-baptist-university-organization-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/hong-kong-baptist-university-list-research-outputs-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/hong-kong-baptist-university-list-persons-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/hong-kong-baptist-university-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/hong-kong-baptist-university-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/hong-kong-baptist-university-context.jsonld
  - aid: hong-kong-baptist-university:mobile-app-backend
    name: HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)
    description: >-
      Backend host serving the official HKBU mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk).
      The host resolves and serves app support content such as the app privacy notice,
      but there is no public developer documentation, OpenAPI spec, or self-service
      sign-up; the API is intended for the first-party mobile client only. Listed for
      completeness; no endpoints are documented or independently verified.
    humanURL: https://mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk/html/app_privacy_policy.html
    tags: [ Mobile, Backend, Gated ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk/html/app_privacy_policy.html
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/HKBUNLP
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://hk.linkedin.com/school/hong-kong-baptist-university/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/hkbaptistu
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/hong-kong-baptist-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/hong-kong-baptist-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/hong-kong-baptist-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]