---
aid: kfupm
name: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
description: >-
  King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) is a public research
  university in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, ranked #101 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. KFUPM does not operate a centralized public developer portal,
  but several institutional systems expose machine-readable interfaces: the
  KFUPM ePrints theses and dissertations repository serves a live OAI-PMH 2.0
  endpoint and EPrints REST URLs, and the Elsevier Pure research portal
  (pure.kfupm.edu.sa) ships the standard Pure Web Services REST API (OpenAPI 3,
  authentication-gated). KFUPM also maintains a GitHub organization and a
  student Open Source Club presence.
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/kfupm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Saudi Arabia
  - Middle East
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
# 2026-06-03: enrichment added real OpenAPI + derived artifacts for the Pure Web Services API.
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: kfupm:eprints-oai
    name: KFUPM ePrints OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the KFUPM ePrints theses
      and dissertations repository (EPrints software). Verified live: the
      Identify verb returns repositoryName "KFUPM ePrints", protocol version
      2.0, and Dublin Core / EPrints metadata formats.
    humanURL: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
    baseURL: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access, Theses, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - aid: kfupm:eprints-rest
    name: KFUPM ePrints REST / Search
    description: >-
      EPrints content and search URLs for the KFUPM ePrints repository.
      Individual records are addressable (e.g. /id/eprint/{id}) and the
      /cgi/search interface returns results. No formal developer signup; access
      is public read-only over HTTP.
    humanURL: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
    baseURL: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/id/eprint/
    tags: [ Repository, REST, Search, Open Access, Theses, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
  - aid: kfupm:pure-ws
    name: KFUPM Pure Web Services API
    description: >-
      Elsevier Pure Web Services REST API hosted on the KFUPM research portal
      (pure.kfupm.edu.sa). Defined with OpenAPI 3 using standard HTTP verbs.
      The versioned endpoint (/ws/api/524) responds with HTTP 401, confirming
      the API is present but requires an API key / authentication; it is not an
      open public API.
    humanURL: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
    baseURL: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api/
    tags: [ Research, CRIS, Pure, REST, Publications, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/ws/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kfupm-pure-ws.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/kfupm-research-output-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/kfupm-person-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/kfupm-research-output-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/kfupm-person-structure.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/kfupm-list-research-outputs-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/kfupm-get-person-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/kfupm-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/kfupm-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/kfupm-context.jsonld
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.kfupm.edu.sa/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/kfupm
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/KFUPM-OSC
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/kfupm/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
  - type: ResearchPortal
    url: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/kfupm-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/kfupm-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/kfupm-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com