University of Glasgow

Enlighten Theses OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten Theses, the University of Glasgow's electronic theses repository, with records back to 2012-12-10. Offers oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl, rdf and uketd_dc, the UK Electronic Theses Online Service profile. Open and unauthenticated. This endpoint was not present in the previous profile of this institution and was found by probe on 2026-08-30.

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

Other Resources

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x-examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-glasgow-theses-oai-identify-example.xml
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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
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Website
https://theses.gla.ac.uk/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-glasgow:theses-oai
name: Enlighten Theses OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: theses.gla.ac.uk is a CNAME to new-theses.lib.gla.ac.uk (130.209.34.163), the institution's
  own network. Identify names "Enlighten Theses" with adminEmail theses@glasgow.ac.uk.
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten Theses, the University of Glasgow's electronic
  theses repository, with records back to 2012-12-10. Offers oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl, rdf and uketd_dc,
  the UK Electronic Theses Online Service profile. Open and unauthenticated. This endpoint was not present
  in the previous profile of this institution and was found by probe on 2026-08-30.
humanURL: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Theses
- EPrints
- Metadata
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/information.html
- type: x-examples
  url: examples/university-of-glasgow-theses-oai-identify-example.xml
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/