University of St Andrews

St Andrews Research Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository, the University's open-access repository of theses, articles and other research outputs. Verified live on 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "St Andrews Research Repository", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2006-11-21 and granularity to the second. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns twelve prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, ore, rdf, marc, dim, didl, xoai, etdms, uketd_dc) and verb=ListSets returns the community and collection hierarchy under handle prefix 10023. The host is under the University's own registrable domain and the repository content, handles and administration are the University's; the application is hosted for St Andrews by University of Edinburgh Information Services (the host CNAMEs to research-repository.st-andrews-lb.is.ed.ac.uk), a sector shared service rather than a commercial platform, so this is recorded as institution-operated. No spec is saved: OAI-PMH is a protocol with a published standard, not a per-institution contract.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-st-andrews:repository-oai
name: St Andrews Research Repository OAI-PMH
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository, the University''s
  open-access repository of theses, articles and other research outputs. Verified live on 2026-09-01:
  verb=Identify returns repositoryName "St Andrews Research Repository", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail
  Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2006-11-21 and granularity to the second. verb=ListMetadataFormats
  returns twelve prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, ore, rdf, marc, dim, didl, xoai, etdms, uketd_dc)
  and verb=ListSets returns the community and collection hierarchy under handle prefix 10023. The host
  is under the University''s own registrable domain and the repository content, handles and administration
  are the University''s; the application is hosted for St Andrews by University of Edinburgh Information
  Services (the host CNAMEs to research-repository.st-andrews-lb.is.ed.ac.uk), a sector shared service
  rather than a commercial platform, so this is recorded as institution-operated. No spec is saved: OAI-PMH
  is a protocol with a published standard, not a per-institution contract.'
humanURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/request
x-operator: institution
x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
tags:
- Research
- Repository
- DSpace
- Metadata
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-st-andrews-education-standards.yml