# UK Access Management Federation Identity Provider Entity

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/uk-federation-idp/  
**Provider:** University of Reading — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-reading/  
**Base URL:** http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/%7Bsha1%7D57cf958ecb2c90e4fb339c8cf8a95dcee2d68101  
**Documentation:** https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/

UK Access Management Federation Identity Provider Entity is one of 14 APIs that [University of Reading](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-reading/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, and Single Sign-On. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs.

The University of Reading's own SAML identity provider entity, registered in the UK Access Management Federation and published in eduGAIN. entityID https://reading.ac.uk/oala/metadata, OrganizationName "The University of Reading", scoped to reading.ac.uk and reading.edu.my (the Malaysia campus). Its metadata is retrievable from the federation's MDQ service and was confirmed live on 2026-09-01 (200, application/samlmetadata+xml, 7,773 bytes), advertising a SAML 2.0 HTTP-Redirect SSO endpoint and a Shibboleth 1.0 AuthnRequest endpoint, both resolving to login.openathens.net — the university's chosen implementation is OpenAthens LA, and no Shibboleth IdP host of its own resolves in DNS. A federation is shared by definition; the entity, the scope and the users behind it are the institution's.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **API** — http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/%7Bsha1%7D57cf958ecb2c90e4fb339c8cf8a95dcee2d68101
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-reading/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-reading-authentication.yml
- **x-conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-reading/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-reading-conformance.yml

## Other University of Reading APIs (12)

- [CentAUR OAI-PMH Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/centaur-oai-pmh/)
- [Research Data Archive OAI-PMH Metadata API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/research-data-archive-oai-pmh/)
- [CentAUR Repository REST Listings](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/centaur-eprints-rest/)
- [Research Data Archive REST Listings](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/research-data-archive-eprints-rest/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant OpenID Connect Discovery](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/entra-id-tenant/)
- [DataCite Membership and DOI Prefixes](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/datacite-membership/)
- [ROR Organization Registration](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/ror-registration/)
- [Module Catalogue](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/module-catalogue/)
- [Meteorology Department Climate Data Services](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/met-climate-data/)
- [Elsevier Pure Research Information System (tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/elsevier-pure-cris/)
- [Talis Aspire Online Reading Lists (tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/talis-aspire-reading-lists/)
- [SirsiDynix Enterprise Library Catalogue (tenant)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-reading/library-catalogue/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, eduGAIN, Single Sign-On

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