UCL

UCL Discovery — OAI-PMH

UCL Discovery is UCL's open-access institutional repository of research outputs, running EPrints on UCL's own registrable domain, and it exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint at discovery.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/oai2. This is the only surface in this profile whose host, software deployment and endpoint are all UCL's. A direct probe on 2026-08-19 was answered with a Cloudflare challenge interstitial (HTTP 403, 'Just a moment...') rather than an OAI-PMH response, so the endpoint is live but not readable unattended; the endpoint address and the EPrints software are independently confirmed by UCL's entry in the re3data repository registry (r3d100012417). No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract is published for it.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/

Other Resources

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Registry
https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012417
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucl/refs/heads/main/conformance/ucl-education-standards-conformance.yml
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ucl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucl:discovery-oai
name: UCL Discovery — OAI-PMH
description: UCL Discovery is UCL's open-access institutional repository of research outputs, running
  EPrints on UCL's own registrable domain, and it exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint
  at discovery.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/oai2. This is the only surface in this profile whose host, software deployment
  and endpoint are all UCL's. A direct probe on 2026-08-19 was answered with a Cloudflare challenge interstitial
  (HTTP 403, 'Just a moment...') rather than an OAI-PMH response, so the endpoint is live but not readable
  unattended; the endpoint address and the EPrints software are independently confirmed by UCL's entry
  in the re3data repository registry (r3d100012417). No OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract is
  published for it.
humanURL: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Research
- EPrints
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/
- type: Registry
  url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012417
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ucl-education-standards-conformance.yml
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Host discovery.ucl.ac.uk is under UCL's own registrable domain (Cloudflare-proxied,
  UCL-controlled DNS). re3data r3d100012417 records softwareName=EPrints and the OAI-PMH base URL on the
  same host.
x-probe:
  url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  status: 403
  note: Cloudflare challenge — live, not dead
  checked: '2026-08-19'