University of Liverpool

University of Liverpool Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the University of Liverpool Repository, an EPrints 3.4.5 open-access archive of research outputs (journal articles, conference papers, theses, reports and books), served from the institution's own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns 200 with repositoryName "The University of Liverpool Repository", repositoryIdentifier livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk, deletedRecord "persistent", granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, earliestDatestamp 2016-03-29T13:54:54Z and full metadata, data and submission policy statements. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns eight prefixes — didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, primo_dc, rdf, rioxx and uketd_dc (the UK EThOS thesis profile). The EPrints software is the University of Southampton's; the deployment, the host, the DOIs and the data are Liverpool's, and no EPrints product contract is saved under this institution. Note the User-Agent filter on this host: 200 to a harvester UA, 403 to a desktop-browser UA.

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Documentation
https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-liverpool/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-liverpool-conformance.yml
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Errors
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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-liverpool:repository-oai
name: University of Liverpool Repository OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the University of Liverpool Repository, an
  EPrints 3.4.5 open-access archive of research outputs (journal articles, conference papers, theses,
  reports and books), served from the institution''s own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify
  returns 200 with repositoryName "The University of Liverpool Repository", repositoryIdentifier livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk,
  deletedRecord "persistent", granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, earliestDatestamp 2016-03-29T13:54:54Z
  and full metadata, data and submission policy statements. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns eight prefixes
  — didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, primo_dc, rdf, rioxx and uketd_dc (the UK EThOS thesis profile). The
  EPrints software is the University of Southampton''s; the deployment, the host, the DOIs and the data
  are Liverpool''s, and no EPrints product contract is saved under this institution. Note the User-Agent
  filter on this host: 200 to a harvester UA, 403 to a desktop-browser UA.'
humanURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
baseURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Research
- EPrints
- RIOXX
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-liverpool-conformance.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/university-of-liverpool-oai-error-codes.yml