University of Newcastle Australia

---
aid: uon
name: University of Newcastle Australia
description: >-
  The University of Newcastle (UON) is a public research university based in
  Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, ranked #179 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Like most Australian universities, UON does not operate a
  dedicated public API developer portal; the bulk of its student, staff, and
  enterprise systems (myUni, online tools, ServiceNow) sit behind institutional
  SSO and are not openly documented. Its most accessible programmatic footprint
  is research-oriented: Open Research Newcastle, the institutional open access
  repository hosted on the Figshare platform, exposes machine-readable access
  via the Figshare public REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint, and the University
  maintains a research code presence on GitHub.
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/uon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: uon:open-research-figshare
    name: Open Research Newcastle (Figshare REST API)
    description: >-
      Open Research Newcastle is the University of Newcastle's institutional
      open access repository, launched in 2025 on the Figshare platform after
      migrating from the former NOVA repository. Its records (articles, theses,
      datasets, conference papers, creative works) are accessible through the
      public Figshare REST API, which is documented and openly callable; the
      institution can be filtered within Figshare's article search endpoints.
      The customer-facing repository portal is openresearch.newcastle.edu.au.
    humanURL: https://openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Open Research, Open Access, Repository, Research Data, Figshare ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/uon-open-research-figshare.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/uon-article-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/uon-article-structure.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/uon-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/uon-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/uon-context.jsonld
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/uon-article-detail-example.json
  - aid: uon:open-research-oai
    name: Open Research Newcastle (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      Open Research Newcastle, on the Figshare platform, exposes an OAI-PMH
      metadata harvesting endpoint for its open access records. The endpoint is
      reachable at openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/oai; automated clients may
      encounter a platform bot-mitigation challenge (HTTP 202) and standard
      OAI-PMH harvesting verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets) are supported
      by the Figshare repository software.
    humanURL: https://openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/oai
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Repository, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openresearch.newcastle.edu.au/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/university-of-newcastle-research
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-newcastle/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/uon-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/uon-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/uon-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]