Imperial College London

aid: imperial-college-london
name: Imperial College London
description: 'Imperial College London is a UK public research university (QS World 2025 #2) specializing in science, engineering,
  medicine, and business. Its public developer footprint is infrastructure-oriented rather than a published API program: the
  institution operates a large GitHub organization for staff and student code, the Spiral open-access research repository
  (DSpace-CRIS), an Ex Libris Primo/Alma library discovery system, and Shibboleth/SAML federated identity. Imperial does not
  publish a first-party, self-service developer portal with open REST endpoints; most machine-accessible interfaces are protocol-standard
  (OAI-PMH, SAML), vendor-hosted, or require institutional authentication.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- United Kingdom
- Open Access
- Repository
- Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: imperial-college-london:spiral
  name: Spiral Open Access Repository
  description: Spiral is Imperial College London's open-access institutional repository, holding 90,000+ research outputs
    on the DSpace-CRIS platform. As a DSpace deployment it exposes standard OAI-PMH metadata harvesting and a DSpace REST
    API. Endpoint paths follow DSpace conventions; large-scale harvesting may be rate-limited.
  humanURL: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012406
  - type: Website
    url: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/imperial-college-london-spiral.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/imperial-college-london-item-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/imperial-college-london-item-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/imperial-college-london-searchObjects-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/imperial-college-london-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/imperial-college-london-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/imperial-college-london-context.jsonld
- aid: imperial-college-london:shibboleth
  name: Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
  description: Imperial's SAML 2.0 federated identity provider participates in the UK Access Management Federation. It is
    a standards-based single sign-on integration interface rather than a REST API; access requires federation membership.
  humanURL: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/imperial-college-london/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/imperialcollege
- type: Plans
  url: plans/imperial-college-london-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/imperial-college-london-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/imperial-college-london-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com