University of Leeds

White Rose Research Online (OAI-PMH) — consortium tenancy

RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. Leeds' scholarly publications repository is White Rose Research Online, a shared EPrints platform operated by the White Rose University Consortium on behalf of Leeds, Sheffield and York. It exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (verified 2026-08-30, earliest datestamp 2007-08-05). Leeds' outputs are in it and Leeds co-owns the consortium, but the host is not under a Leeds registrable domain and the deposits of two other universities share the same endpoint — so the interface is recorded as a tenancy and no White Rose specification is stored under this slug. This is the correct handling of a shared contract: the relationship is kept, the credit is not taken.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-leeds:white-rose-research-online
name: White Rose Research Online (OAI-PMH) — consortium tenancy
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'eprints.whiterose.ac.uk is on whiterose.ac.uk, not leeds.ac.uk. OAI Identify returns
  repositoryName "White Rose Research Online" with adminEmail eprints@whiterose.ac.uk. The University
  of Leeds is one of three co-owning institutions (with Sheffield and York) of the White Rose University
  Consortium, not the operator of the host. audit-university-contracts.py returns a cohort-derived verdict
  of `vendor` on this host — "same host claimed by 2 other institution(s)" — and that computation is correct.
  It is recorded as `tenant` rather than `vendor` because White Rose is not a commercial platform with
  customers: Leeds co-owns the consortium and the deposits are Leeds''. The BEHAVIOUR is identical either
  way, and it is the behaviour that matters: no White Rose contract is saved under this slug and no credit
  is taken for its engineering.'
description: 'RELATIONSHIP, NOT A CONTRACT. Leeds'' scholarly publications repository is White Rose Research
  Online, a shared EPrints platform operated by the White Rose University Consortium on behalf of Leeds,
  Sheffield and York. It exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (verified 2026-08-30, earliest datestamp
  2007-08-05). Leeds'' outputs are in it and Leeds co-owns the consortium, but the host is not under a
  Leeds registrable domain and the deposits of two other universities share the same endpoint — so the
  interface is recorded as a tenancy and no White Rose specification is stored under this slug. This is
  the correct handling of a shared contract: the relationship is kept, the credit is not taken.'
humanURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- EPrints
- Consortium
- Open Access
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/