---
aid: university-of-ottawa
name: University of Ottawa
description: >-
  The University of Ottawa (uOttawa) is a public bilingual research university
  in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the largest English-French bilingual
  university in the world. It is ranked #189 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is concentrated in the
  library's institutional repository, uO Research (Recherche uO Research), which
  runs on DSpace 7.6.5 and exposes both a public DSpace REST/HATEOAS API and an
  OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. uOttawa does not operate a single
  unified public developer portal; most enterprise and student-information
  systems are gated behind institutional SSO.
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/university-of-ottawa/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Canada
  - Bilingual
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-ottawa:ruor-rest
    name: uO Research DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Public DSpace 7.6.5 REST/HATEOAS API for uO Research (Recherche uO
      Research), the University of Ottawa's institutional repository. The API
      root reports dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.6.5" and dspaceName "Recherche uO
      Research", and discloses available endpoints (communities, collections,
      items, bitstreams, discovery/search) via HAL _links.
    humanURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/
    baseURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/api
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, DSpace, Open Access, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/api
  - aid: university-of-ottawa:ruor-oai
    name: uO Research OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for uO Research. An Identify
      request confirms protocol version 2.0 and repository name "Recherche uO
      Research", supporting standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
      ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, GetRecord) for harvesting open-access
      scholarly metadata.
    humanURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/
    baseURL: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ruor.uottawa.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uottawa.ca/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uottawa-wcms
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/uottawa/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-ottawa-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-ottawa-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-ottawa-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com