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UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)

The UCL Research Data Repository is UCL's institutional data repository, used to deposit, archive, publish and mint DOIs for research datasets. The data, the curation policy and the DOI prefix (10.5522, registered to UCL as DataCite client BL.UCLD) are UCL's. The platform is not: rdr.ucl.ac.uk CNAMEs directly to figshare.com, re3data records softwareName=figshare, and UCL's holdings are addressed on Figshare's shared host as api.figshare.com/v2/articles?institution=549 and api.figshare.com/v2/oai?set=portal_549. Figshare's contract is deliberately NOT saved under this institution — it is one document that 25 universities in this catalog were previously credited with authoring. The tenancy itself is recorded here because it is a real institutional fact and one of UCL's few remaining programmable surfaces.

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Documentation
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-science-research-support/research-data-management

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Registry
https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013090

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ucl:research-data-repository
name: UCL Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)
description: 'The UCL Research Data Repository is UCL''s institutional data repository, used to deposit,
  archive, publish and mint DOIs for research datasets. The data, the curation policy and the DOI prefix
  (10.5522, registered to UCL as DataCite client BL.UCLD) are UCL''s. The platform is not: rdr.ucl.ac.uk
  CNAMEs directly to figshare.com, re3data records softwareName=figshare, and UCL''s holdings are addressed
  on Figshare''s shared host as api.figshare.com/v2/articles?institution=549 and api.figshare.com/v2/oai?set=portal_549.
  Figshare''s contract is deliberately NOT saved under this institution — it is one document that 25 universities
  in this catalog were previously credited with authoring. The tenancy itself is recorded here because
  it is a real institutional fact and one of UCL''s few remaining programmable surfaces.'
humanURL: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- Figshare
- Open Data
- DOI
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-science-research-support/research-data-management
- type: Registry
  url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100013090
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'DNS: rdr.ucl.ac.uk -> figshare.com. re3data r3d100013090 softwareName=figshare;
  APIs listed on api.figshare.com/v2 with institution=549 / set=portal_549.'
x-vendor: Figshare
x-probe:
  url: https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/
  status: 202
  note: 'AWS WAF challenge (x-amzn-waf-action: challenge), empty body — live, not dead'
  checked: '2026-08-19'