University of Glasgow

Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten, the University of Glasgow's EPrints institutional repository of research outputs — journal articles, conference papers, books, book sections and theses. Seven metadata formats are offered: oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl, rdf, rioxx (the UK open-access and REF compliance profile) and uketd_dc. Author ORCID identifiers are carried inline in the harvestable metadata. Open, unauthenticated, deletedRecord persistent, granularity to the second.

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Documentation
https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html

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Website
https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/
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APIsJSON
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-glasgow:enlighten-oai
name: Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: eprints.gla.ac.uk is a CNAME to new-rocky.lib.gla.ac.uk (130.209.34.164), inside
  the University of Glasgow's own network and under its own registrable domain. The Identify response
  names the repository "Enlighten Publications" with adminEmail research-enlighten@glasgow.ac.uk. The
  repository software is EPrints, a third party's; the deployment, the host, the data and the endpoint
  are the institution's, which is what the operator axis measures.
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten, the University of Glasgow''s EPrints institutional
  repository of research outputs — journal articles, conference papers, books, book sections and theses.
  Seven metadata formats are offered: oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl, rdf, rioxx (the UK open-access and
  REF compliance profile) and uketd_dc. Author ORCID identifiers are carried inline in the harvestable
  metadata. Open, unauthenticated, deletedRecord persistent, granularity to the second.'
humanURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Publications
- EPrints
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
- type: x-examples
  url: examples/university-of-glasgow-enlighten-oai-identify-example.xml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
- type: x-errors
  url: errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-glasgow-vocabulary.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/