Loughborough University

aid: loughborough
name: Loughborough University
description: 'Loughborough University is a public research university in Leicestershire, United Kingdom, ranked #224 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. It is well known for sport, engineering, and design programmes and operates a campus
  in London alongside its main Loughborough campus. The university does not publish a first-party developer portal or open-data
  API; its public programmatic footprint is limited to its figshare-powered Loughborough Research Repository (which exposes
  the standard figshare REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint scoped to the institution) and a Shibboleth/SAML
  identity provider used for federated single sign-on.'
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/loughborough/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- United Kingdom
- Research Data
- Open Access
- Repository
- Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: loughborough:research-repository-rest
  name: Loughborough Research Repository (figshare REST API)
  description: The Loughborough Research Repository is the institution's research output and dataset repository, powered by
    figshare. Records are accessible programmatically through the standard figshare v2 REST API filtered to the Loughborough
    institution, returning articles, datasets, theses, and other research outputs.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/articles?institution=2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - Datasets
  - figshare
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/loughborough-research-repository-rest.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/loughborough-article-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/loughborough-article-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/loughborough-get-article-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/loughborough-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/loughborough-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/loughborough-context.jsonld
- aid: loughborough:research-repository-oai
  name: Loughborough Research Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the Loughborough Research Repository, served via figshare and scoped
    to the Loughborough portal set. Supports Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting verbs (ListIdentifiers,
    ListRecords, Identify) for interoperability with aggregators such as CORE and OpenAIRE.
  humanURL: https://docs.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=Identify&set=portal_2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- aid: loughborough:shibboleth-idp
  name: Loughborough Shibboleth/SAML Identity Provider
  description: Loughborough University's Shibboleth-based SAML 2.0 identity provider used for federated single sign-on (the
    UK Access Management Federation) across university and licensed third-party services. The SAML metadata endpoint is publicly
    referenced but is access-controlled and intended for federation members rather than general developer use.
  humanURL: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/it/topics/student-account/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/it/topics/student-account/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/LoughboroughUniversity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://uk.linkedin.com/school/loughborough-university/
- type: Repository
  url: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/loughborough-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/loughborough-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/loughborough-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com