# ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/ora-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Oxford — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-oxford/  
**Base URL:** https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2  
**Documentation:** https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api

ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH is one of 10 APIs that [University of Oxford](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-oxford/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Open Access, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The only API surface Oxford actually documents. An OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider over the institutional open-access repository, serving ten metadata formats including DataCite kernel 4.6, OpenAIRE 4.0, three RIOXX profiles (one released under CC0), EThOS uketd_dc, and customised profiles for Oxford's own SOLO discovery layer, BASE and Unpaywall. Sixteen sets allow selective harvesting by type of work. Oxford publishes harvesting etiquette, an identifier migration rule for the 2018 platform change, an update schedule, a deletion policy and a Tuesday 07:00-09:00 UK maintenance window. Selective harvesting by publication date is explicitly not supported.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-oxford-ora-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
- **TermsOfService** — https://ora.ox.ac.uk/terms_of_use
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Oxford APIs (9)

- [ORA — Research Archive Search & Record API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/ora-search/)
- [Digital Bodleian IIIF API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/bodleian-iiif/)
- [Oxford Text Archive OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/oxford-text-archive-oai-pmh/)
- [University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity Provider](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Oxford Continuing Education WordPress REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/conted-wp-rest/)
- [Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal (Figshare tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/sds-figshare-tenancy/)
- [SOLO library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/solo-primo-tenancy/)
- [Oxford Canvas VLE (Instructure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/canvas-tenancy/)
- [Oxford recruitment (CoreHR tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/recruit-corehr-tenancy/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Open Access, Metadata

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