Massey University

---
aid: massey
name: Massey University
description: >-
  Massey University is a public research university in New Zealand with campuses
  in Palmerston North, Wellington, and Auckland, ranked #239 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable footprint is centered on
  Massey Research Online (MRO), the institutional repository built on DSpace 8.3,
  which exposes a standards-based OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface and a
  HAL/JSON DSpace REST API. The university's former M-API WebService is now a
  legacy service and is no longer available. There is no broadly published
  general-purpose developer portal; most institutional API access (the historical
  M-API) was gated behind an ITS Service Desk developer-key request.
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/massey/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - New Zealand
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: massey:mro-oai-pmh
    name: Massey Research Online OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for Massey Research Online (MRO),
      the DSpace institutional repository providing free full-text access to
      Massey University research outputs, theses, and dissertations. Supports the
      standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.)
      for harvesting Dublin Core and other metadata formats.
    humanURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
  - aid: massey:mro-rest
    name: Massey Research Online DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      HAL/JSON REST API for Massey Research Online, running DSpace 8.3. Exposes
      hypermedia (HATEOAS) endpoints for communities, collections, items,
      bundles, bitstreams, and metadata, enabling programmatic discovery and
      retrieval of repository content.
    humanURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
    baseURL: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api
    tags: [ REST, HAL, JSON, DSpace, Repository, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://mro.massey.ac.nz/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.massey.ac.nz/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/massey-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/massey-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/massey-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/massey-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]