# Loughborough University Research Repository (figshare tenancy)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/research-repository/  
**Provider:** Loughborough University — https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/  
**Base URL:** https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/  
**Documentation:** https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/

Loughborough University Research Repository (figshare tenancy) is one of 7 APIs that [Loughborough University](https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Data, Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

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

## Other Loughborough University APIs (6)

- [Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/library-catalogue-api/)
- [Loughborough Learn — LTI 1.3 Advantage Platform (Moodle)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/learn-lti-platform/)
- [Loughborough University SAML 2.0 Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/identity-federation/)
- [Loughborough University Library Discovery (VuFind)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/vufind-discovery/)
- [Loughborough University Reading Lists (Talis Aspire tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/reading-lists/)
- [Loughborough University Library Hours and Bookings (Springshare LibCal tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/libcal/)

## Tags

Research Data, Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Metadata

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/loughborough/research-repository/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/.