Macquarie University

---
aid: macquarie
name: Macquarie University
description: >-
  Macquarie University is a public research university in Sydney, Australia,
  ranked #133 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public,
  developer-relevant API footprint is concentrated in research-data and library
  infrastructure rather than a single branded developer portal. The Macquarie
  University Research Data Repository (RDR) runs on Figshare for Institutions,
  which exposes content through the public Figshare REST API v2 and an OAI-PMH
  metadata endpoint; the university Library maintains public open-source tooling
  on GitHub built around Ex Libris Alma. Authentication for institutional
  systems is provided via a Shibboleth/SAML identity provider. No dedicated,
  publicly documented Macquarie University developer portal or open-data API
  platform was found during this review.
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/macquarie/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Library
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: macquarie:rdr-figshare
    name: Macquarie University Research Data Repository (Figshare API)
    description: >-
      The Macquarie University Research Data Repository (RDR) is built on
      Figshare for Institutions and surfaces its public datasets, theses, and
      other research outputs through the public Figshare REST API v2. Macquarie
      content is discoverable via the API (DOI prefix 10.25949, Figshare group
      id 39392) and the public figshare.mq.edu.au discovery portal.
    humanURL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Figshare, Open Data, DOI ]
    properties:
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/macquarie-rdr-figshare.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/macquarie-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/macquarie-author-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/macquarie-article-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/macquarie-author-structure.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/macquarie-list-articles-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/macquarie-author-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/macquarie-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/macquarie-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/macquarie-context.jsonld
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://libguides.mq.edu.au/research_data_repository
  - aid: macquarie:rdr-oai-pmh
    name: Macquarie University Research Data Repository (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      The Figshare-backed Research Data Repository exposes metadata for harvest
      via the OAI-PMH protocol through the Figshare OAI-PMH endpoint, supporting
      standards-based metadata harvesting of Macquarie research outputs by
      external aggregators.
    humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Repository, Research Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - aid: macquarie:library-alma-tools
    name: Macquarie University Library Open-Source Tooling
    description: >-
      The Macquarie University Library publishes public open-source utilities on
      GitHub that integrate with the Ex Libris Alma library services platform
      (for example an Alma toolkit and resource-sharing partner harvest/sync
      tools). These consume the Alma APIs rather than exposing a public Macquarie
      API of their own.
    humanURL: https://github.com/mqlibrary
    tags: [ Library, Alma, Ex Libris, Open Source ]
    properties:
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/mqlibrary
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.mq.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/macquarie-university
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/mqlibrary
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/macquarie-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://idp.mq.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/macquarie-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/macquarie-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/macquarie-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]