Keio University

aid: keio
name: Keio University
description: >-
  Keio University is a private research university in Tokyo, Japan, founded in
  1858, and ranked #188 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public
  machine-readable footprint is led by KOARA (KeiO Associated Repository of
  Academic resources), the institutional repository, which exposes a live
  OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. Most other institutional systems
  (keio.jp SSO over Google Workspace, Canvas K-LMS, the K-RIS researcher system,
  KOSMOS library discovery, and the Keio Object Hub culture portal) are
  account-gated and do not publish open developer API documentation. Identity is
  federated through GakuNin, the Japanese academic SAML/Shibboleth federation
  that participates in eduGAIN.
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/keio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Japan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: keio:koara-oai-pmh
    name: KOARA OAI-PMH Metadata API
    description: >-
      KOARA (KeiO Associated Repository of Academic resources) is Keio
      University's institutional repository, released in 2006 and running on the
      XooNips platform. It exposes a publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for
      harvesting metadata of its scholarly records (theses, articles, and other
      academic resources). The Identify response confirms protocol version 2.0
      with second-level datestamp granularity.
    humanURL: https://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/doc/KOARA_About_en.htm
    baseURL: https://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/oai.php
    tags:
      - OAI-PMH
      - Institutional Repository
      - Metadata
      - Open Access
      - Research
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/doc/KOARA_About_en.htm
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/
  - type: LibraryWebsite
    url: https://www.lib.keio.ac.jp/en/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.gakunin.jp/en
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/Keio_PR_eng
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/keio-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/keio-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/keio-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/keio-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/keio-context.jsonld
  - type: Blog
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]