# CentAUR OAI-PMH Metadata API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/centaur-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** University of Reading — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-reading/  
**Base URL:** https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2  
**Documentation:** https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/

CentAUR OAI-PMH Metadata API is one of 2 APIs that [University of Reading](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-reading/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, and Research. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for CentAUR, the Central Archive University of Reading institutional repository (EPrints). Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, GetRecord) for harvesting bibliographic metadata of the university's research outputs. Confirmed live; Identify returns repositoryName "CentAUR", protocolVersion 2.0.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/information.html
- **API** — https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-reading/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Reading APIs (1)

- [Research Data Archive OAI-PMH Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/research-data-archive-oai-pmh/)

## Tags

Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, Research, EPrints

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