UBIRA eTheses (EPrints OAI-PMH)

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham eTheses EPrints repository, holding full-text electronic theses produced by research postgraduates. Identify returns repositoryName "UBIRA ETheses", adminEmail ubira@lists.bham.ac.uk and an earliestDatestamp of 2019-01-17. No authentication required. An EPrints REST interface is also live at /rest/.

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aid: university-of-birmingham:etheses
name: UBIRA eTheses (EPrints OAI-PMH)
x-operator: institution
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham eTheses EPrints
  repository, holding full-text electronic theses produced by research postgraduates. Identify returns
  repositoryName "UBIRA ETheses", adminEmail ubira@lists.bham.ac.uk and an earliestDatestamp of 2019-01-17.
  No authentication required. An EPrints REST interface is also live at /rest/.
humanURL: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Theses
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- EPrints
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/rest/