# Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/spiral-dspace-rest/  
**Provider:** Imperial College London — https://apis.io/providers/imperial-college-london/  
**Base URL:** https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/

Spiral Open Access Repository (DSpace 7 REST API) is one of 5 APIs that [Imperial College London](https://apis.io/providers/imperial-college-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Research Data, Institutional Repository, Open Access, and DSpace. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Imperial's institutional open-access repository, exposed over the DSpace 7 HAL+JSON REST API at https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api. The read-oriented subset is genuinely public: /core/communities, /core/collections and /discover/search/objects all answer 200 unauthenticated. /core/items as a collection answers 401 — item access is by UUID. Collapsed from three separate apis[] entries (core / discover / root) into one on 2026-08-19: those were an artifact of refine-openapis splitting one contract by tag, and carrying them as three surfaces tripled Imperial's apparent footprint for a single vendor-operated API.

## Machine-readable artifacts (13)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/openapi/imperial-college-london-core-api-openapi.yml
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/openapi/imperial-college-london-discover-api-openapi.yml
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/openapi/imperial-college-london-root-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012406
- **Website** — https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
- **x-json-schema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/json-schema/imperial-college-london-item-schema.json
- **x-json-schema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/json-schema/imperial-college-london-community-schema.json
- **x-json-structure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/json-structure/imperial-college-london-item-structure.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/examples/imperial-college-london-searchObjects-example.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/examples/imperial-college-london-getCommunity-example.json
- **x-spectral-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/rules/imperial-college-london-rules.yml
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/imperial-college-london-vocabulary.yml
- **x-json-ld-context** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/json-ld/imperial-college-london-context.jsonld

## Other Imperial College London APIs (4)

- [Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Spiral OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting Endpoint](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/spiral-oai-pmh/)
- [Imperial Canvas LTI 1.3 / OIDC Platform Endpoints](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/canvas-lti-platform/)
- [Imperial Blackboard Learn REST API](https://apis.io/apis/imperial-college-london/blackboard-learn-rest/)

## Tags

Research Data, Institutional Repository, Open Access, DSpace

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