Taylor's University

---
aid: taylors
name: Taylor's University
description: >-
  Taylor's University is a private research university based in Subang Jaya,
  Selangor, Malaysia, and ranked #251 in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
  It does not operate a formal, branded developer portal, but several real,
  publicly reachable machine interfaces exist across its library and research
  infrastructure. The Taylor's Library catalog runs on Koha (exposing a Koha
  REST API and an OAI-PMH data provider), and the Taylor's e-Repository runs on
  DSpace CRIS (exposing a HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint). Identity
  is federated through Microsoft Entra ID. The institution's GitHub organization
  exists but currently has no public repositories.
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/taylors/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Data
  - Malaysia
  - Asia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: taylors:library-rest
    name: Taylor's Library Koha REST API
    description: >-
      The Taylor's Library catalog runs on the open-source Koha integrated
      library system, which ships a versioned REST API under /api/v1 (patrons,
      items, checkouts, holds, biblios, etc.). The OpenAPI/Swagger specification
      is publicly retrievable; most data-modifying and patron endpoints require
      authentication.
    humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
    baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1
    tags: [ Library, Koha, REST, Catalog ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/api/v1/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/taylors-library-rest.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/taylors-patron-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/taylors-checkout-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/taylors-hold-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/taylors-item-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/taylors-patron-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/taylors-item-structure.json
      - type: Examples
        url: examples/taylors-getPatron-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/taylors-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/taylors-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/taylors-context.jsonld
  - aid: taylors:library-oai
    name: Taylor's Library OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider exposed by the Koha-powered Taylor's Library
      catalog for harvesting bibliographic metadata. The Identify response
      returns repository name "Taylor's Library" with earliest records dating to
      December 2019.
    humanURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
    baseURL: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl
    tags: [ Library, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
  - aid: taylors:irepo-rest
    name: Taylor's e-Repository DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      The Taylor's e-Repository runs on DSpace CRIS (cris-2022.01.01) and exposes
      a HATEOAS HAL+JSON REST API at /server/api covering communities,
      collections, items, bundles, discovery, statistics, ORCID and external
      sources. It collects research abstracts, theses, dissertations, academic
      profiles, articles and creative works from Taylor's faculty, staff and
      students.
    humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
    baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, DSpace, REST, Research, CRIS ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/api
  - aid: taylors:irepo-oai
    name: Taylor's e-Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider for the DSpace CRIS e-Repository, advertising
      repository name "Taylor's University Library" and OpenAIRE CERIF profile
      compliance for research-output discovery and aggregation.
    humanURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/
    baseURL: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, OpenAIRE, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://irepo.taylors.edu.my/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://university.taylors.edu.my/en.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Taylors-University
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/taylor's-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://librarycatalogue.taylors.edu.my/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/taylors-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/taylors-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/taylors-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]