La Trobe University

---
aid: la-trobe-university
name: La Trobe University
description: >-
  La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria,
  Australia, ranked #217 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most
  universities, La Trobe does not operate a single consolidated public developer
  portal; the bulk of its API surface (an internal API gateway at api.latrobe.edu.au)
  sits behind sign-in and institutional federation. Its most clearly public,
  documented machine-readable interface is its open research repository, OPAL
  (Open @ La Trobe), which is hosted on the Figshare platform and therefore exposes
  the standard Figshare REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint for harvesting
  open-access publications, theses, and research data. Library discovery runs on
  Ex Libris Alma and Primo.
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/la-trobe-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Australia
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: la-trobe-university:opal-figshare-rest
    name: OPAL (Open @ La Trobe) Figshare REST API
    description: >-
      OPAL is La Trobe University's institutional open-access repository, hosted on
      the Figshare platform. Figshare exposes a public, documented REST API; La Trobe's
      portal records are retrievable via the institution-scoped articles endpoint
      (institution id 234). Returns publications, theses, datasets, and educational
      resources with DOIs and Dublin Core / DataCite metadata. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Repository, Open Data, Research, Figshare, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Website
        url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/la-trobe-university-opal-figshare.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/la-trobe-university-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/la-trobe-university-article-structure.json
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/la-trobe-university-context.jsonld
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/la-trobe-university-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/la-trobe-university-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/la-trobe-university-get-article-example.json
  - aid: la-trobe-university:opal-figshare-oai-pmh
    name: OPAL (Open @ La Trobe) OAI-PMH Endpoint
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the La Trobe OPAL repository, served
      via the Figshare platform OAI provider, scoped to the La Trobe portal set
      (portal_234) and supporting the oai_dc metadata prefix. Verified live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/#oai_pmh
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Repository, Open Data, Metadata, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/#oai_pmh
      - type: Website
        url: https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/
  - aid: la-trobe-university:api-gateway
    name: La Trobe API Gateway (Gated)
    description: >-
      An institutional API gateway is reachable at api.latrobe.edu.au, but it is not a
      public, self-service developer product. Unauthenticated requests return HTTP 302
      redirecting to a /signin page, indicating access is restricted to authenticated
      and/or institutionally affiliated consumers. No public API documentation or
      open sign-up was found. Listed for transparency only; no endpoints are documented.
    humanURL: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/
    tags: [ Gated, Authentication, Internal, Gateway ]
    properties:
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://api.latrobe.edu.au/signin
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.latrobe.edu.au/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/la-trobe-university/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/latrobe
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/la-trobe-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/la-trobe-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/la-trobe-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]