University of Sydney

---
aid: university-of-sydney
name: University of Sydney
description: >-
  The University of Sydney is Australia's first university, founded in 1850, and
  is ranked #32 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public digital
  footprint centers on student, library, and research-data services rather than
  a formal, openly documented developer API program. The library runs on Ex
  Libris Alma and Primo (which expose vendor APIs and OAI-PMH), the Sydney
  eScholarship Repository offers an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the myUni
  student portal is backed by internal authenticated APIs. Most institutional
  APIs are gated behind authentication or vendor key issuance, and no central
  public developer portal was found at time of 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/university-of-sydney/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Library
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-sydney:escholarship-oai
    name: Sydney eScholarship Repository (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      The University of Sydney's institutional repository, Sydney eScholarship,
      exposes an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for open-access theses,
      research outputs, and digital collections. The interface follows the
      standard OAI-PMH 2.0 verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord).
      Automated requests may be rate-limited or require a descriptive
      User-Agent.
    humanURL: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/
  - aid: university-of-sydney:primo-alma
    name: Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma)
    description: >-
      The University of Sydney Library runs on the Ex Libris Alma library
      services platform with the Primo discovery layer. Ex Libris provides
      documented Alma REST APIs and Primo Search/PNX APIs, but access requires
      an institution-issued API key via the Ex Libris Developer Network; these
      are not openly published by the university.
    humanURL: https://sydney.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
    tags: [ Library, Discovery, Alma, Primo, Vendor ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
  - aid: university-of-sydney:myuni
    name: myUni Student Portal API (gated)
    description: >-
      The myUni student portal is backed by internal JSON APIs (for example
      student degrees and credits) used by the authenticated student web
      application. These endpoints require an active student session and are not
      publicly documented or available to third-party developers.
    humanURL: https://myuni.sydney.edu.au/
    tags: [ Student, SIS, Gated, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://myuni.sydney.edu.au/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.sydney.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Sydney-Informatics-Hub
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sydney/
  - type: Library
    url: https://www.library.sydney.edu.au/
  - type: ServicePortal
    url: https://sydneyuni.service-now.com/sm
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-sydney-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-sydney-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-sydney-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]