# ePrints Soton REST Interface

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-southampton/eprints-rest/  
**Provider:** University of Southampton — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-southampton/  
**Base URL:** https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/rest  
**Documentation:** https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/

ePrints Soton REST Interface is one of 6 APIs that [University of Southampton](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-southampton/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Repository, Research, REST, EPrints, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

Read-only REST interface over the ePrints Soton data model, exposing the repository's eprint, user and subject datasets. Unauthenticated. Individual records dereference by identifier with a format extension and return native EPrints XML (namespace http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0) including nested documents and files with their own stable identifiers. Verified 2026-08-30: the dataset index returned 200 (524 bytes) and eprint 498754 returned 200 text/xml (5106 bytes) carrying populated ORCID iDs and the DOI 10.5258/SOTON/WSI-WP013. Treat it as a repository export rather than a designed API — there is no pagination, versioning, rate-limit header or published contract, and the unfiltered listing at /rest/eprint/ streamed past 11 MB without completing at a 25-second timeout. Use OAI-PMH for bulk work. Same Anubis User-Agent gate as the OAI-PMH surface.

## Operations (2)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/` | List the datasets this repository exposes |
| GET | `/eprint/{eprintid}.xml` | Retrieve one repository record as EPrints XML |

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-southampton/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-southampton-eprints-rest-openapi.yml
- **ResearchRepository** — https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
- **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-southampton/refs/heads/main/rules/university-of-southampton-rules.yml
- **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-southampton/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-southampton-errors.yml

## Other University of Southampton APIs (5)

- [University of Southampton Open Data Service (Linked Data)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-southampton/open-data-linked-data/)
- [Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-southampton/shibboleth-saml-idp/)
- [ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-southampton/eprints-oai-pmh/)
- [Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-southampton/pure-cris-tenancy/)
- [Figshare research data repository tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-southampton/figshare-tenancy/)

## Tags

Repository, Research, REST, EPrints, Metadata, Open Access

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