University of Adelaide

---
aid: university-of-adelaide
name: University of Adelaide
description: >-
  The University of Adelaide is a public research university in Adelaide, South
  Australia, founded in 1874, and ranked #72 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public, developer-facing footprint is centered on open scholarly
  infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the "Adelaide Research &
  Scholarship" institutional repository runs on DSpace 7.6.1 and exposes both a
  REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata endpoint, and the university operates an
  Adelaide Figshare research-data instance backed by the shared Figshare public
  API and OAI-PMH. Authentication is handled by a CAS-based single sign-on, and
  the institution maintains a public GitHub organization built largely around its
  Drupal "Shepherd" site-management platform. No consolidated, self-service public
  API developer portal was found.
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/university-of-adelaide/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Data
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-adelaide:dspace-rest
    name: Adelaide Research & Scholarship REST API
    description: >-
      DSpace 7.6.1 REST (HAL/JSON) API for the University of Adelaide
      institutional repository "Adelaide Research & Scholarship", exposing
      communities, collections, items, and bitstreams for theses, articles,
      and other scholarly outputs. Confirmed live returning the DSpace root
      endpoint.
    humanURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, DSpace, Research, Scholarly, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/REST+API
      - type: BaseURL
        url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/api
  - aid: university-of-adelaide:dspace-oai-pmh
    name: Adelaide Research & Scholarship OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Adelaide Research &
      Scholarship" DSpace repository. Confirmed live; the Identify response
      reports repository name "Adelaide Research & Scholarship" with earliest
      datestamp 2002.
    humanURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Repository, DSpace, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
      - type: BaseURL
        url: https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/server/oai/request
  - aid: university-of-adelaide:figshare
    name: Adelaide Figshare Research Data API
    description: >-
      The University of Adelaide operates an Adelaide Figshare instance
      (adelaide.figshare.com) for research data and digital objects. Programmatic
      access is provided by the shared Figshare public REST API and OAI-PMH
      endpoint, both confirmed live; institution-scoped content can be queried
      via the Figshare API.
    humanURL: https://adelaide.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Figshare, Repository, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: BaseURL
        url: https://api.figshare.com/v2
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-adelaide-figshare.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-adelaide-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-adelaide-collection-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/university-of-adelaide-article-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/university-of-adelaide-collection-structure.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-adelaide-list-articles-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-adelaide-list-collections-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/university-of-adelaide-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-adelaide-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/university-of-adelaide-context.jsonld
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/universityofadelaide
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/uniofadelaide/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://login.adelaide.edu.au/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-adelaide-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-adelaide-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-adelaide-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]