# LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/lse/research-online-oai/  
**Provider:** London School of Economics and Political Science — https://apis.io/providers/lse/  
**Base URL:** https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/oai2  
**Documentation:** https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/

LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH) is one of 7 APIs that [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://apis.io/providers/lse/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Research, EPrints, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- **Registry** — https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011218
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml

## Other London School of Economics and Political Science APIs (6)

- [LSE Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/identity-federation/)
- [LSE Moodle LTI 1.3 Platform](https://apis.io/apis/lse/moodle-lti-platform/)
- [LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/library-search/)
- [LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/digital-library/)
- [LSE Archives Catalogue (Epexio)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/archives-catalogue/)
- [LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/datacite-doi/)

## Tags

Research Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Research, EPrints, Metadata

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