# Heriot-Watt University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/heriot-watt/  
**Website:** https://www.hw.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 17.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Pure)** — Public research information portal powered by Elsevier Pure, exposing Heriot-Watt University publications, projects, research data, activities, and researcher profiles. The port...
- **Heriot-Watt LibCal (Springshare)** — 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 ...

## Security (2)

- **Heriot Watt Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Heriot Watt Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt

## Plans (1)

- **Heriot Watt Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Scotland, United Kingdom, Research, Library, Open Access

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/heriot-watt/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.