# AURA DSpace REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/aura-dspace-rest/  
**Provider:** University of Aberdeen — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-aberdeen/  
**Base URL:** https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/

AURA DSpace REST API is one of 2 APIs that [University of Aberdeen](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-aberdeen/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, DSpace, and REST. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA) runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a public HATEOAS REST API for discovering communities, collections, items, bitstreams, and related metadata in the open-access institutional repository. The API root advertises endpoints for core resources, discovery/search, statistics, and configuration.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-aberdeen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Aberdeen APIs (1)

- [AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/aura-oai-pmh/)

## Tags

Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, DSpace, REST

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