# DataCite membership and registered repository

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/datacite-membership/  
**Provider:** University of Aberdeen — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-aberdeen/  
**Base URL:** https://api.datacite.org/providers/hugz  
**Documentation:** https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/open-research/open-data/

DataCite membership and registered repository is one of 10 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 Data, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, DataCite, and Registry. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The University of Aberdeen is a DataCite member — provider symbol HUGZ, memberType consortium_organization, organizationType academicInstitution, country GB, region EMEA — and operates one registered DataCite repository, BL.ABDN, of repositoryType "institutional", created 2016-03-30 and pointed at https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/home. The BL. prefix places the membership inside the British Library DataCite consortium. This is a fact about the institution recorded in a shared registry, not a contract the institution publishes; api.datacite.org is DataCite's and is never held under a university slug.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://api.datacite.org/repositories/bl.abdn
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-aberdeen/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-aberdeen-conformance.yml

## Other University of Aberdeen APIs (9)

- [Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/shibboleth-saml-idp/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID tenant (institutional identity)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/entra-id-tenant/)
- [AURA DSpace REST API (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/aura-dspace-rest/)
- [AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting (tenancy on Edinburgh IS infrastructure)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/aura-oai-pmh/)
- [Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy (research portal, REST + OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/pure-cris-tenancy/)
- [MyAberdeen — Blackboard Learn tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/blackboard-learn-tenancy/)
- [Library discovery — Ex Libris Primo tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/primo-discovery-tenancy/)
- [Crossref membership and DOI prefixes](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR organization registration](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-aberdeen/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Research Data, DOI, Persistent Identifiers, DataCite, Registry

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