# Loughborough University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/loughborough/  
**Website:** https://www.lboro.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

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.

## Kin Score — 42.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 72.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Loughborough Research Repository OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the Loughborough Research Repository, served via figshare and scoped to the Loughborough portal set. Supports Open Archives Initiative P...
- **Loughborough University altmetric API** — The altmetric API from Loughborough University — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **Loughborough University articles API** — The articles API from Loughborough University — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **Loughborough University authors API** — The authors API from Loughborough University — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **Loughborough University collections API** — The collections API from Loughborough University — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **Loughborough University institutions API** — The institutions API from Loughborough University — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **Loughborough University oauth API** — The oauth API from Loughborough University — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Loughborough University other API** — The other API from Loughborough University — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **Loughborough University profiles API** — The profiles API from Loughborough University — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **Loughborough University projects API** — The projects API from Loughborough University — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **Loughborough University symplectic API** — The symplectic API from Loughborough University — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Loughborough Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Loughborough Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Loughborough Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Loughborough Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, United Kingdom, Research Data, Open Access, Repository, Identity

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