RMIT University

---
aid: rmit
name: RMIT University
description: >-
  RMIT University is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia,
  specializing in technology, design and enterprise, and ranked #123 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. RMIT does not operate a centralized,
  publicly documented developer portal. Its most accessible programmatic
  surface is its research output: the RMIT Research Repository runs on
  Clarivate's Esploro platform, and RMIT's research data is published via a
  Figshare-hosted repository whose records are exposed through the public
  Figshare REST API (api.figshare.com) and syndicated to Research Data
  Australia. Student-facing systems such as timetables, the curriculum
  catalogue, and identity/SSO sit behind authentication and are not offered
  as public APIs.
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/rmit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: rmit:figshare-api
    name: RMIT Research Data (Figshare REST API)
    description: >-
      RMIT University's research data, publications and non-traditional
      research outputs are published to a Figshare-hosted institutional
      repository. The publicly accessible records are queryable through the
      shared Figshare REST API v2 (api.figshare.com), which returns RMIT
      article and dataset metadata as JSON. This is a third-party Figshare
      platform API, not an RMIT-operated endpoint.
    humanURL: https://rmit.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Access, Figshare, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://rmit.figshare.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/rmit-figshare-api.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/rmit-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/rmit-author-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/rmit-article-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/rmit-author-structure.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/rmit-articles-search-example.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/rmit-article-detail-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/rmit-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/rmit-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/rmit-context.jsonld
  - aid: rmit:research-repository
    name: RMIT Research Repository (Esploro)
    description: >-
      The RMIT Research Repository is RMIT University's open access research
      portal, powered by Clarivate's Esploro research information management
      platform. It provides public web-based discovery of RMIT publications
      and research outputs. Esploro supports metadata harvesting integrations,
      but RMIT does not publish a documented public API or open OAI-PMH
      endpoint for the portal.
    humanURL: https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/
    tags: [ Research Repository, Open Access, Esploro, Clarivate ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.rmit.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/RMIT-University
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rmit-university/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/RMIT
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/rmit-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/rmit-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/rmit-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]