# UCL Discovery — OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ucl/discovery-oai/  
**Provider:** UCL — https://apis.io/providers/ucl/  
**Base URL:** https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/cgi/oai2  
**Documentation:** https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/

UCL Discovery — OAI-PMH is one of 6 APIs that [UCL](https://apis.io/providers/ucl/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Research, and EPrints. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

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

## Other UCL APIs (5)

- [UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/research-data-repository/)
- [UCL Profiles / IRIS (Symplectic Elements tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/profiles/)
- [UCL Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/library-discovery/)
- [UCL site search (Funnelback tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/site-search/)
- [UCL Identity Provider — UK Access Management Federation](https://apis.io/apis/ucl/identity-federation/)

## Tags

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

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