Open Research Exeter (ORE) DSpace REST API

The Open Research Exeter DSpace platform exposes the standard DSpace REST API for programmatic access to communities, collections, items, and bitstreams. The repository host is reachable but sits behind a bot-mitigation gateway, so the REST API surface could not be fully verified live during this review and is documented per DSpace defaults.

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aid: university-of-exeter:ore-rest
name: Open Research Exeter (ORE) DSpace REST API
description: The Open Research Exeter DSpace platform exposes the standard DSpace REST API for programmatic
  access to communities, collections, items, and bitstreams. The repository host is reachable but sits
  behind a bot-mitigation gateway, so the REST API surface could not be fully verified live during this
  review and is documented per DSpace defaults.
humanURL: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/
baseURL: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/server/api
tags:
- Research
- Repository
- REST
- Open Data
- DSpace
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/researchdatamanagement/after/discovery/