---
aid: hokkaido
name: Hokkaido University
description: >-
  Hokkaido University (北海道大学) is a national research university in Sapporo,
  Japan, founded in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College and ranked #173 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates 12 undergraduate schools, 21
  graduate schools, and numerous research institutes. Its public, machine-readable
  developer footprint is limited and centered on scholarly infrastructure: the
  HUSCAP institutional repository (Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and
  Academic Papers) and public XML sitemaps. The university does not publish a
  dedicated developer portal or documented public REST API; most institutional
  systems (ELMS LMS, syllabus search, researcher directory) are web UIs without
  documented programmatic access.
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/hokkaido/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Japan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: hokkaido:huscap
    name: HUSCAP Institutional Repository
    description: >-
      HUSCAP (Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers) is
      the university's open-access institutional repository of journal articles,
      conference materials, doctoral dissertations, and research data. It exposes
      JPCOAR-compliant metadata and persistent identifiers (Handle, DOI). The
      repository migrated to a new platform in December 2025; the legacy DSpace
      OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint at /dspace-oai/request no longer resolves and a
      replacement OAI-PMH base URL for the new system was not publicly confirmed
      at the time of review.
    humanURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
    baseURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
    tags: [ Institutional Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Research, Metadata, JPCOAR ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/
      - type: Website
        url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/research-and-education/find-an-academic-paper-huscap/
  - aid: hokkaido:huscap-sitemap
    name: HUSCAP XML Sitemaps
    description: >-
      Publicly crawlable XML sitemap index for the HUSCAP repository, providing a
      machine-readable list of repository item URLs. This is an open, robots.txt-
      permitted endpoint usable for programmatic discovery of repository records.
    humanURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
    baseURL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
    tags: [ Sitemap, XML, Discovery, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/hokkaidouni/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/hokkaido-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/hokkaido-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/hokkaido-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com