University of Queensland

---
aid: uq
name: University of Queensland
description: >-
  The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public research university in Brisbane,
  Australia, ranked #54 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. UQ's public
  developer and API footprint is concentrated in its library and research
  infrastructure: UQ eSpace, the institutional digital repository (built on the
  Fez/Fedora platform), exposes an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint and a
  documented REST API with executable examples. The UQ Library maintains an
  active public GitHub organisation (uqlibrary) with 150+ repositories. Broader
  institutional/transactional data access is governed through the Central
  Integration Platform and Data Hub, which are gated and require approval rather
  than offering open self-service 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/uq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Data
  - Australia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: uq:espace-oai
    name: UQ eSpace OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for UQ eSpace, the University of
      Queensland's institutional digital repository of research publications,
      theses, and datasets. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify,
      ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, GetRecord) for harvesting scholarly
      metadata.
    humanURL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/oai.php
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/about
  - aid: uq:espace-api
    name: UQ eSpace REST API
    description: >-
      REST API for UQ eSpace providing programmatic access to research outputs
      and dataset records held in the repository. UQ Library has published API
      documentation with executable examples describing the available endpoints.
    humanURL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10582
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, REST, Research, Datasets ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10582
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/uqlibrary
  - aid: uq:central-integration
    name: Central Integration Platform
    description: >-
      UQ's API platform for transactional and business data, used to integrate
      institutional systems. Access is not open or self-service; developers must
      request access via the Integration Services Team and complete the relevant
      data governance approvals. No public endpoints are published.
    humanURL: https://data.uq.edu.au/explore-and-access-data/central-integration-platform
    tags: [ Integration, Enterprise Data, Gated, Access Controlled ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.uq.edu.au/explore-and-access-data/central-integration-platform
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uq.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uqlibrary
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-queensland/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://data.uq.edu.au/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/uq-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/uq-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/uq-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/uq-context.jsonld
  - type: x-blogs
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]