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QU Press Open Journal System OAI-PMH API

Qatar University Press self-hosts Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.7 at journals.qu.edu.qa and exposes an anonymous OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, site-wide and per journal. It identifies as "QU Press Open Journal System", adminEmail mjaberi@qu.edu.qa, earliest datestamp 2017-12-26, deletedRecord persistent, with gzip and deflate compression declared, four dissemination formats, 100 sets across eight journals in Arabic and English, and completeListSize 3,186. This is the institution's own OAI-PMH conformance — QSpace's is its hosting platform's. One serious defect: the endpoint emits identifiers in the PKP shipped-default namespace (oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/N) that its own GetRecord verb rejects as malformed, so round-trip harvesting is broken. The adjacent OJS REST API returns 403 to the public.

QU Press Open Journal System OAI-PMH API is one of 10 APIs that Qatar University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Scholarly Publishing, Open Access, Metadata, and Open Journal Systems. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php.

2 operations 2 paths 2 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/index/oai
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

OAI-PMH 2

The six OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol verbs, site-wide and per journal.

GET
/index/oai
Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request across every QU Press journal
oaiRequestAllJournals 7 params → 200
GET
/{journal}/oai
Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request scoped to one journal
oaiRequestSingleJournal 8 params → 200

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are OaiPmhResponse (3 properties), OaiPmhError (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

OaiPmhResponse
object
Root OAI-PMH element in namespace http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/. Described structurally; the authoritative schema is the OAI-PMH 2.0 XSD at http://www.o…
3 properties
OaiPmhError
object
OAI-PMH protocol error, carried in an HTTP 200 response body.
2 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

qatar-qupress-oai-pmh-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Qatar University publishes across the network.

Qatar University Single Sign-On (OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0)
Qatar University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
QSpace Institutional Repository (Open Repository tenant)
Qatar University Blackboard Learn (Anthology tenant)
Qatar University Library Research Guides (Springshare tenant)
Qatar University Student Information System (Ellucian Banner)
Research Organization Registry membership
Crossref membership (Qatar University Press)
Handle.Net naming authority 10576
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