London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)

LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository — LSE's research outputs, LSE's metadata, LSE's registered OAI-PMH base URL and admin contact (lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk). It is not LSE's engineering: the host CNAMEs to lse-eprints-cs.com, EPrints Services' managed hosting, and the software self-reports as EPrints 3.4.6. The OAI-PMH 2.0 interface returned a valid Identify response on 2026-08-19 (it was returning HTTP 500 at the June 2026 review and has since recovered), with deletedRecord=persistent and earliestDatestamp 2010-10-01. Item-level export returns 401 and the search endpoint is behind a Cloudflare challenge. The Identify response still carries EPrints' default unconfigured rights text, so harvesters are told to assume no rights are granted.

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Documentation
https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

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Registry
https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011218
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lse:research-online-oai
name: LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'LSE Research Online is LSE''s institutional repository — LSE''s research outputs, LSE''s
  metadata, LSE''s registered OAI-PMH base URL and admin contact (lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk). It is
  not LSE''s engineering: the host CNAMEs to lse-eprints-cs.com, EPrints Services'' managed hosting, and
  the software self-reports as EPrints 3.4.6. The OAI-PMH 2.0 interface returned a valid Identify response
  on 2026-08-19 (it was returning HTTP 500 at the June 2026 review and has since recovered), with deletedRecord=persistent
  and earliestDatestamp 2010-10-01. Item-level export returns 401 and the search endpoint is behind a
  Cloudflare challenge. The Identify response still carries EPrints'' default unconfigured rights text,
  so harvesters are told to assume no rights are granted.'
humanURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Research
- EPrints
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Registry
  url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011218
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml