# TARA OAI-PMH (Trinity's Access to Research Archive)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/trinity-college-dublin/tara-oai/  
**Provider:** Trinity College Dublin — https://apis.io/providers/trinity-college-dublin/  
**Documentation:** https://www.tcd.ie/library/riss/tara/

TARA OAI-PMH (Trinity's Access to Research Archive) is one of 2 APIs that [Trinity College Dublin](https://apis.io/providers/trinity-college-dublin/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, and DSpace. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

TARA is Trinity College Dublin's open-access institutional repository, built on DSpace. It exposes an OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface for harvesting Dublin Core and other metadata about theses, articles, and other research outputs. The repository is harvested by national and European aggregators (e.g. RIAN, OpenAIRE). The endpoint is reachable interactively but is currently fronted by bot-mitigation that returns HTTP 403 to unattended programmatic clients.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://libguides.tcd.ie/TARA
- **Website** — https://www.tara.tcd.ie/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trinity-college-dublin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Trinity College Dublin APIs (1)

- [TCD Digital Collections (IIIF)](https://apis.io/apis/trinity-college-dublin/digital-collections-iiif/)

## Tags

Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, DSpace

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