Loughborough University

Loughborough University Library Discovery (VuFind)

VuFind discovery layer at vufind.lboro.ac.uk, the public search interface over the Koha catalogue, on managed hosting by PTFS Europe (CNAME lboro-vufind.infrastructure.servers.ptfse.net). VuFind's Search API is present at /api/v1 but is not open: /api/v1/search and /api/v1/record both return HTTP 403 with {"status":"ERROR","statusMessage":"Permission denied"}. The VuFind OAI-PMH responder at /OAI/Server and the HTML surface are behind an Anubis bot challenge and returned an interstitial rather than content on every attempt. Recorded because the surface is real and deployed, not because it is usable — the honest state is deployed-but-closed.

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https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/search/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: loughborough:vufind-discovery
name: Loughborough University Library Discovery (VuFind)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'VuFind discovery layer at vufind.lboro.ac.uk, the public search interface over the Koha
  catalogue, on managed hosting by PTFS Europe (CNAME lboro-vufind.infrastructure.servers.ptfse.net).
  VuFind''s Search API is present at /api/v1 but is not open: /api/v1/search and /api/v1/record both return
  HTTP 403 with {"status":"ERROR","statusMessage":"Permission denied"}. The VuFind OAI-PMH responder at
  /OAI/Server and the HTML surface are behind an Anubis bot challenge and returned an interstitial rather
  than content on every attempt. Recorded because the surface is real and deployed, not because it is
  usable — the honest state is deployed-but-closed.'
humanURL: https://vufind.lboro.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://vufind.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- Search
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/search/