# Heriot-Watt Research Output Service (ROS)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/research-output-service/  
**Provider:** Heriot-Watt University — https://apis.io/providers/heriot-watt/  
**Base URL:** https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/

Heriot-Watt Research Output Service (ROS) is one of 6 APIs that [Heriot-Watt University](https://apis.io/providers/heriot-watt/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research, Institutional Repository, Open Access, Theses, and OAI-PMH. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference and API documentation.

The university's own institutional repository of theses and research outputs, running DSpace 8 on www.ros.hw.ac.uk — a host under Heriot-Watt's registrable domain with a matching PTR record, an open.access@hw.ac.uk administrative contact and Heriot-Watt's own Handle prefix 10399. Two machine-readable surfaces are live and require no credentials: an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets and ListRecords all answer, with didl, mods, ore, mets, xoai and oai_dc metadata formats and community-level sets), and the DSpace REST/HAL API rooted at /server/api exposing communities, collections, items, bitstreams and the discover search index. The REST contract itself is DSpace's product contract, shipped identically by every DSpace 8 installation, so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution; the deployment, the data and the OAI-PMH conformance are Heriot-Watt's.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **APIReference** — https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/server/api
- **ResearchRepository** — https://www.ros.hw.ac.uk/
- **Documentation** — https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/professional-services/information-services/research-support/ros-theses-repository
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heriot-watt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Heriot-Watt University APIs (5)

- [Heriot-Watt University Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/identity-federation/)
- [Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Elsevier Pure)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/research-portal/)
- [Heriot-Watt Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/library-discovery/)
- [Heriot-Watt Canvas (Instructure)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/canvas/)
- [Heriot-Watt LibCal (Springshare)](https://apis.io/apis/heriot-watt/libcal/)

## Tags

Research, Institutional Repository, Open Access, Theses, OAI-PMH, DSpace

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