# ORA — Research Archive Search & Record API

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

ORA — Research Archive Search & Record API 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. This API exposes 2 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Search, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 2 JSON Schemas.

An undocumented but live JSON search and record API over ORA. GET /objects.json returns a paged, faceted, JSON:API-shaped result set; GET /objects/{uuid}.json returns a single record. The endpoint is self-describing — every response carries the service's own vocabulary of four search fields, four sort orders and sixteen facet fields, including division, department, college, research group and funder. Oxford has never announced, versioned or committed to this surface; it is recorded here because it answers, and it is described in a DERIVED contract that says so.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-oxford-ora-search-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-search-response-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-oxford-ora-object-schema.json
- **Website** — https://ora.ox.ac.uk/

## Other University of Oxford APIs (9)

- [ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-oxford/ora-oai-pmh/)
- [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

Research Repository, Search, Open Access

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