---
aid: griffith
name: Griffith University
description: >-
  Griffith University is a public research university in Queensland, Australia, ranked
  #255 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer
  footprint centers on research and library infrastructure rather than a formal developer
  portal. Griffith Research Online (GRO), the institutional repository, runs on DSpace 7.6
  and exposes both a REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting publication and
  research-output metadata. The university also operates a Canvas LMS instance whose
  Instructure REST API documentation is publicly reachable, and maintains active GitHub
  organizations for its Library and eResearch Services teams. No unified, self-service
  Griffith developer portal was found; most administrative, course, timetable, and identity
  interfaces are gated behind institutional affiliation.
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/griffith/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Australia
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: griffith:gro-rest
    name: Griffith Research Online (GRO) DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      REST API for Griffith Research Online, the university's institutional repository,
      running on DSpace 7.6. Provides programmatic access to communities, collections,
      items, bitstreams, and metadata for Griffith research outputs. The API root at
      /server/api confirms the live DSpace REST interface.
    humanURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, Research, DSpace, Metadata, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
  - aid: griffith:gro-oai
    name: Griffith Research Online OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Griffith Research Online. Supports the
      standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, etc.) for harvesting
      Dublin Core and other metadata describing Griffith publications and research outputs.
    humanURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/
    baseURL: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Repository, Research, Metadata, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.edu.au/griffith-research-online-oai-protocol/8941
  - aid: griffith:canvas-lms
    name: Griffith Canvas LMS REST API
    description: >-
      Griffith University operates a Canvas (Instructure) learning management system at
      lms.griffith.edu.au. The Canvas LMS REST API documentation is publicly reachable and
      describes endpoints for courses, enrollments, assignments, and developer keys. Live
      API access requires authentication and institutional credentials, and Instructure has
      noted the docs will redirect to its central developer portal after July 1, 2026.
    humanURL: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/doc/api/index.html
    tags: [ LMS, Canvas, Instructure, Teaching, Learning ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lms.griffith.edu.au/doc/api/index.html
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.griffith.edu.au/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/GriffithUniLibrary
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/gu-eresearch
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/griffith-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/griffith-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/griffith-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/griffith-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com