University of Nottingham

Repository@Nottingham DSpace REST API

Keyless, read-only HAL+JSON REST API of the university's self-hosted DSpace 8.2 / DSpace-CRIS (cris-2024.02.04) institutional repository, served from the university's own domain at repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api. The root document advertises the full DSpace link set — core/communities, core/collections, core/items, core/bitstreams, discover/search/objects, discover/browses, config/properties, statistics and authn. Verified live on 2026-08-30: GET /server/api returns 200 application/hal+json naming "University of Nottingham Repository"; GET /server/api/core/communities and GET /server/api/discover/search/objects both return 200 with real records. The contract itself is the DSpace product's, shared by every DSpace deployment — so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution — but the deployment, the host and the data are Nottingham's. The Angular human UI on the same host is behind an AWS WAF human-verification challenge (405) while this API path is open.

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https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-nottingham/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-nottingham:repository-rest
name: Repository@Nottingham DSpace REST API
x-operator: institution
description: 'Keyless, read-only HAL+JSON REST API of the university''s self-hosted DSpace 8.2 / DSpace-CRIS
  (cris-2024.02.04) institutional repository, served from the university''s own domain at repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api.
  The root document advertises the full DSpace link set — core/communities, core/collections, core/items,
  core/bitstreams, discover/search/objects, discover/browses, config/properties, statistics and authn.
  Verified live on 2026-08-30: GET /server/api returns 200 application/hal+json naming "University of
  Nottingham Repository"; GET /server/api/core/communities and GET /server/api/discover/search/objects
  both return 200 with real records. The contract itself is the DSpace product''s, shared by every DSpace
  deployment — so no OpenAPI is saved under this institution — but the deployment, the host and the data
  are Nottingham''s. The Angular human UI on the same host is behind an AWS WAF human-verification challenge
  (405) while this API path is open.'
humanURL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/research/open-access/
baseURL: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- DSpace
- REST
- Open Access
- Metadata
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api