Heriot-Watt University

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.

Heriot-Watt University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Scotland, and United Kingdom.

The Heriot-Watt University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Heriot-Watt University’s developer surface includes status page and 9 more developer resources.

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17.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

2 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityScotlandUnited KingdomResearchLibraryOpen Access

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 17.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Heriot Watt Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

About

About

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/heriot-watt.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heriot-watt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- Research
- Library
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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: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
  - Event
  - LibCal
  - Springshare
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - Bookings
  - Events
  - LibCal
  - Springshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hw.ac.libcal.com/
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/heriot-watt-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/heriot-watt-domain-security.yml
- 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
- type: About
  url: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/professional-services/information-services/find-resources
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Heriot-Watt University

Kin Score

APIs 2

Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Pure)

Heriot-Watt LibCal (Springshare)

Pricing Plans 1

Heriot Watt Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Heriot Watt Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Heriot Watt Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Heriot Watt Context

Security Posture 2

Heriot Watt Domain Security

Heriot Watt Vulnerability Disclosure

Resources