---
aid: qatar
name: Qatar University
description: >-
  Qatar University is the national public research university of the State of
  Qatar, located in Doha, and ranked #122 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in
  QSpace, the university's institutional repository running on DSpace 7.6, which
  exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting endpoint and a public DSpace
  REST/HAL API for scholarly output and academic records. Most other
  institutional systems (Self-Service Banner SIS, library discovery, SSO/MFA)
  are gated behind authentication and do not publish open developer
  documentation.
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/qatar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Qatar
  - Middle East
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: qatar:qspace-oai
    name: QSpace OAI-PMH Metadata Endpoint
    description: >-
      Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0)
      endpoint for QSpace, the Qatar University institutional repository
      (DSpace 7.6). Supports the standard Identify, ListRecords, ListSets,
      ListMetadataFormats, GetRecord, and ListIdentifiers verbs for harvesting
      repository metadata (Dublin Core and other formats). Verified live with
      repositoryName "Qspace" and protocolVersion 2.0.
    humanURL: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
    baseURL: https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Institutional Repository, DSpace, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
  - aid: qatar:qspace-rest
    name: QSpace DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Public DSpace 7.6 REST/HAL API backing the QSpace institutional
      repository. The API root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6" and exposes
      HAL-linked resources for communities, collections, items, bitstreams,
      and discovery search. Read operations are public; write operations
      require authentication.
    humanURL: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
    baseURL: https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/server/api
    tags: [ REST, HAL, Institutional Repository, DSpace, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://libguides.qu.edu.qa/quir
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.qu.edu.qa/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/qataruniversity
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/qatar-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/qatar-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/qatar-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/qatar-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com