Heriot-Watt University

aid: heriot-watt
name: Heriot-Watt University
description: 'Heriot-Watt University is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with additional campuses
  in the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai, and Malaysia. It is ranked #257 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Heriot-Watt''s
  public, machine-readable footprint centers on its Research Portal (powered by Elsevier Pure) for research outputs, projects,
  and expertise, and on Ex Libris Alma/Primo library Discovery and Springshare LibCal services. The university does not operate
  a public developer portal; programmatic interfaces such as the Pure OAI-PMH/REST API and the LibCal API exist as platform
  features but are gated and require credentials or institutional arrangement rather than being openly self-service.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- Research
- Library
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: heriot-watt:research-portal
  name: Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Pure)
  description: Public research information portal powered by Elsevier Pure, exposing Heriot-Watt University publications,
    projects, research data, activities, and researcher profiles. The portal is publicly browsable and searchable. Pure provides
    an OAI-PMH and REST API as platform features, but at this institution those programmatic endpoints are not openly available
    (the OAI/ws endpoints redirect to an error and require credentialed or arranged access).
  humanURL: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - Pure
  - Open Access
  - Publications
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/research/research-portal.htm
- aid: heriot-watt:library-discovery
  name: Heriot-Watt Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo / Alma)
  description: Library Discovery search across the catalogue, ebooks, journal articles, and news, delivered on the Ex Libris
    Alma library management platform with the Primo discovery interface. Ex Libris exposes Primo and Alma REST APIs as platform
    capabilities, but these require an Ex Libris API key and institutional arrangement and are not published as a self-service
    public API.
  humanURL: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/professional-services/information-services/find-resources
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Ex Libris
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/professional-services/information-services/find-resources
- aid: heriot-watt:libcal
  name: Heriot-Watt LibCal (Springshare)
  description: Springshare LibCal service for library room bookings, events, and opening hours. LibCal offers a documented
    REST API behind an admin-configured OAuth client; the API surface is reachable at the institution's LibCal host but requires
    authenticated credentials rather than open public access.
  humanURL: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Bookings
  - Events
  - LibCal
  - Springshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hw.ac.uk/
- type: Status
  url: https://www.hwstatus.info/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://uk.linkedin.com/school/heriot-watt-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/heriot-watt-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/heriot-watt-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/heriot-watt-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com