Loughborough University

Loughborough University Research Repository (figshare tenancy)

The Loughborough Research Repository is the university's institutional repository for all research outputs, and it is a figshare tenancy: repository.lboro.ac.uk, lboro.figshare.com and the legacy dspace.lboro.ac.uk all CNAME to figshare.com. The data, the DOIs (DataCite prefixes 10.17028 and 10.26174 under member JHAH, client BL.LBORO) and the corpus are Loughborough's; the API contract is figshare's, published on the shared api.figshare.com/v2 host that every figshare customer uses. Harvesting works over OAI-PMH at https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai with set=portal_2 — confirmed as Loughborough's by pulling ListRecords on that set and finding DOI prefix 10.17028 — but Identify on that endpoint names repositoryName "figshare" and adminEmail info@figshare.com. This is recorded as ONE tenant relationship. It was previously recorded as eleven separate APIs backed by ten per-tag copies of figshare's specification; those have been removed.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.figshare.com/

Other Resources

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x-oai-pmh
https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=Identify&set=portal_2
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x-vendor-repo
https://github.com/api-evangelist/figshare
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/conformance/loughborough-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: loughborough:research-repository
name: Loughborough University Research Repository (figshare tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The Loughborough Research Repository is the university''s institutional repository for all
  research outputs, and it is a figshare tenancy: repository.lboro.ac.uk, lboro.figshare.com and the legacy
  dspace.lboro.ac.uk all CNAME to figshare.com. The data, the DOIs (DataCite prefixes 10.17028 and 10.26174
  under member JHAH, client BL.LBORO) and the corpus are Loughborough''s; the API contract is figshare''s,
  published on the shared api.figshare.com/v2 host that every figshare customer uses. Harvesting works
  over OAI-PMH at https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai with set=portal_2 — confirmed as Loughborough''s by
  pulling ListRecords on that set and finding DOI prefix 10.17028 — but Identify on that endpoint names
  repositoryName "figshare" and adminEmail info@figshare.com. This is recorded as ONE tenant relationship.
  It was previously recorded as eleven separate APIs backed by ten per-tag copies of figshare''s specification;
  those have been removed.'
humanURL: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- type: x-oai-pmh
  url: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=Identify&set=portal_2
- type: x-vendor-repo
  url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/figshare
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/loughborough-conformance.yml