# Enlighten EPrints REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/enlighten-rest/  
**Provider:** University of Glasgow — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-glasgow/  
**Base URL:** https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/rest  
**Documentation:** https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html

Enlighten EPrints REST API is one of 8 APIs that [University of Glasgow](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-glasgow/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Repository, EPrints, Research Outputs, Metadata, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, and API documentation.

An anonymous read interface over the Enlighten repositories that the University of Glasgow does not document or advertise anywhere: a dataset index at /rest/, an object index per dataset, a full EPrints 2.0 XML record at /rest/eprint/{id}.xml, a field index per record, and a plain text view of any single field. The subject taxonomy is public; the user dataset lists identifiers only and each user record returns 401. There is no published OpenAPI — the description carried here was derived by API Evangelist from live probes on 2026-08-30 and is marked as such.

## Operations (8)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/` | List the datasets exposed by the repository |
| GET | `/eprint/` | List every eprint id in the repository |
| GET | `/eprint/{eprintid}.xml` | Retrieve one eprint as an EPrints XML document |
| GET | `/eprint/{eprintid}/` | List the fields held on one eprint |
| GET | `/eprint/{eprintid}/{field}.txt` | Retrieve a single field from one eprint as plain text |
| GET | `/subject/` | List the repository subject taxonomy |
| GET | `/user/` | List user record identifiers |
| GET | `/user/{userid}.xml` | Retrieve one user record (credentialed) |

## Machine-readable artifacts (8)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-glasgow-enlighten-rest-openapi.yml
- **x-openapi-original** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/openapi/_original/university-of-glasgow-enlighten-rest.yml
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-glasgow-eprints-rest-record-example.xml
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-glasgow-authentication.yml
- **x-errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
- **x-lifecycle** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-glasgow-lifecycle.yml
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-glasgow-vocabulary.yml
- **Documentation** — https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html

## Other University of Glasgow APIs (7)

- [Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/enlighten-oai/)
- [Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/researchdata-oai/)
- [Enlighten Theses OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/theses-oai/)
- [Moodle VLE — LTI 1.3 Platform and Web Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/moodle-lti/)
- [Library Sierra API (Innovative Interfaces)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/sierra-library-api/)
- [WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/worldcat-discovery/)
- [LibGuides (Springshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-glasgow/libguides/)

## Tags

Repository, EPrints, Research Outputs, Metadata, Open Access

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