King's College London

aid: kings-college-london
name: King's College London
description: 'King''s College London (KCL) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, ranked #41 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Like most research universities, King''s does not operate a centralized public developer
  portal; its machine-readable footprint is concentrated in research and library infrastructure. The King''s Research Portal
  (Pure) exposes a live OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the King''s research data repository is hosted on Figshare, which
  provides a public REST API and OAI-PMH endpoint. King''s also runs an e-Research group with a large public GitHub organization.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- OAI-PMH
- Library
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: kings-college-london:pure-oai
  name: King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the King's Research Portal, the front end of Pure, King's research
    information system and institutional repository. The interface returns a live OAI-PMH response (repositoryName "Pure OAI
    Repository") supporting standard verbs such as Identify, ListRecords and ListMetadataFormats over an OpenAIRE CERIF profile.
  humanURL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/explore/kings-research-portal
  baseURL: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - Pure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/explore/kings-research-portal
  - type: Website
    url: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/
- aid: kings-college-london:figshare-repository
  name: King's College London Research Repository (Figshare)
  description: King's research data repository hosted on Figshare. Public access to the repository's records is available
    through the Figshare public REST API (api.figshare.com/v2) and a Figshare OAI-PMH endpoint, both of which return live
    responses. The KCL-branded repository front end is at kcl.figshare.com.
  humanURL: https://kcl.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Figshare
  - OAI-PMH
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Website
    url: https://kcl.figshare.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kings-college-london-figshare-repository.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/kings-college-london-article-schema.json
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/kings-college-london-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/kings-college-london-rules.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/kcl-eresearch
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/king's-college-london/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kings-college-london-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kings-college-london-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kings-college-london-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: x-json-ld
  url: json-ld/kings-college-london-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com