---
aid: usm
name: Universiti Sains Malaysia
description: >-
  Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is a public research university founded in 1969
  and headquartered in Penang, Malaysia, holding APEX (Accelerated Programme for
  Excellence) status and ranked #146 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its
  public developer/API footprint is modest: USM operates an API developer portal at
  api.usm.my run by the Pusat Pengetahuan, Komunikasi dan Teknologi (PPKT), but the
  catalog and documentation sit behind authentication. The most openly accessible
  machine-readable interface is the EPrints-based institutional repository at
  eprints.usm.my, which exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint.
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/usm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Malaysia
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: usm:eprints-oai
    name: USM Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the USM Repository
      (Repository@USM), an EPrints 3.3.16 institutional repository of USM research
      and publications. The Identify response confirms repositoryName "USM
      Repository", protocolVersion 2.0, admin contact eprints@usm.my, granularity
      to the second, and a persistent deleted-record policy. Supports standard OAI
      verbs (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, GetRecord, etc.).
    humanURL: https://eprints.usm.my/
    baseURL: https://eprints.usm.my/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Research, Open Access, Metadata, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.usm.my/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://eprints.usm.my/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - aid: usm:api-portal
    name: API@USM Developer Portal (Gated)
    description: >-
      USM's institutional API developer portal operated by PPKT (Pusat Pengetahuan,
      Komunikasi dan Teknologi). The landing page describes REST API benefits for
      integration and innovation, but the API catalog, endpoints, and documentation
      are behind a login; no public specifications or endpoints are exposed to
      unauthenticated users.
    humanURL: https://api.usm.my/
    tags: [ Developer Portal, REST, Gated, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.usm.my/
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://api.usm.my/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.usm.my/en/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api.usm.my/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/universiti-sains-malaysia-official/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/usm-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/usm-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/usm-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com