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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is a British academic publisher offering REST APIs for searching and accessing journal articles, books, metadata, and bibliographic records from over 2,700 Taylor & Francis and Routledge publications. Their API surfaces include content download APIs for books and chapters, KBART holdings automation for library systems, COUNTER 5 SUSHI usage reporting, and text and data mining access for institutional subscribers across humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine.

Taylor & Francis publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Academic, Books, Journals, Metadata, and Publishing.

Taylor & Francis’ developer surface includes developer portal, authentication, getting-started guide, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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28.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
AccessPaid
4 APIs
AcademicBooksJournalsMetadataPublishingResearchText Mining

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 28.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 6.5 / 17
Access Clarity 8.5 / 17
Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 5.5 / 9
Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Taylor & Francis Content API

The Taylor & Francis Content API provides programmatic access to eBook and chapter downloads from the taylorfrancis.com platform. Using DOI-based identifiers, institutional subs...

Taylor & Francis KBART Holdings API

The Taylor & Francis KBART Holdings API enables library management systems to automatically retrieve and synchronise institutional journal and eBook entitlements. Librarians gen...

Taylor & Francis SUSHI / COUNTER 5 API

Taylor & Francis Online supports automated harvesting of COUNTER Release 5 usage statistics via the SUSHI protocol. Institutional library administrators can retrieve Title, Data...

Taylor & Francis Text and Data Mining API

Taylor & Francis provides API-based text and data mining access to subscribed and open-access content for non-commercial research purposes. Institutions notify Taylor & Francis ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Taylor Francis Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Taylor Francis Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Taylor Francis Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Taylor Francis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 Contact
Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

LibrarianResources
LibrarianResources

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: taylor-francis
name: Taylor & Francis
description: Taylor & Francis Group is a British academic publisher offering REST APIs for searching and accessing journal
  articles, books, metadata, and bibliographic records from over 2,700 Taylor & Francis and Routledge publications. Their
  API surfaces include content download APIs for books and chapters, KBART holdings automation for library systems, COUNTER
  5 SUSHI usage reporting, and text and data mining access for institutional subscribers across humanities, social sciences,
  science, technology, and medicine.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/taylor-francis.png
tags:
- Academic
- Books
- Journals
- Metadata
- Publishing
- Research
- Text Mining
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/taylor-francis/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: taylor-francis:taylor-francis-content-api
  name: Taylor & Francis Content API
  description: The Taylor & Francis Content API provides programmatic access to eBook and chapter downloads from the taylorfrancis.com
    platform. Using DOI-based identifiers, institutional subscribers can retrieve PDF content for monographs and edited volume
    chapters, including open-access titles, via the api.taylorfrancis.com domain.
  humanURL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/
  baseURL: https://api.taylorfrancis.com
  tags:
  - Books
  - Chapters
  - Content
  - DOI
  - Downloads
  - Ebooks
  tags_raw:
  - Books
  - Chapters
  - Content
  - DOI
  - Downloads
  - eBooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/how-to-obtain-institutional-token
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/services-support/authentication-and-remote-access/
- aid: taylor-francis:taylor-francis-kbart-holdings-api
  name: Taylor & Francis KBART Holdings API
  description: The Taylor & Francis KBART Holdings API enables library management systems to automatically retrieve and synchronise
    institutional journal and eBook entitlements. Librarians generate a Customer Reference Number (CRN) token from the Librarian
    Dashboard, which LMS providers use to pull KBART holdings files on an automated schedule.
  humanURL: https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/insights/library-management/enhanced-kbart-features/
  tags:
  - Automation
  - Ebooks
  - Holdings
  - Institutional
  - KBART
  - Library
  tags_raw:
  - Automation
  - eBooks
  - Holdings
  - Institutional
  - KBART
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/insights/library-management/enhanced-kbart-features/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/how-to-obtain-institutional-token
- aid: taylor-francis:taylor-francis-sushi-counter-api
  name: Taylor & Francis SUSHI / COUNTER 5 API
  description: Taylor & Francis Online supports automated harvesting of COUNTER Release 5 usage statistics via the SUSHI protocol.
    Institutional library administrators can retrieve Title, Database, Platform, and Item master reports through a COUNTER-compliant
    REST API using credentials generated from the T&F librarian portal.
  humanURL: https://www.tandfonline.com/page/librarians/usage
  tags:
  - COUNTER
  - Institutional
  - Library
  - Reporting
  - Statistics
  - SUSHI
  - Usage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.tandfonline.com/page/librarians/usage
  - type: Support
    url: https://help.tandfonline.com/s/article/Usage-reports
  - type: ProviderRegistry
    url: https://registry.countermetrics.org/platform/b0d81a4b-9023-42ac-a034-703c23124cae
- aid: taylor-francis:taylor-francis-text-data-mining-api
  name: Taylor & Francis Text and Data Mining API
  description: Taylor & Francis provides API-based text and data mining access to subscribed and open-access content for non-commercial
    research purposes. Institutions notify Taylor & Francis in advance of TDM projects and receive technical assistance to
    access full-text content programmatically across journals and books indexed on tandfonline.com and taylorfrancis.com.
  humanURL: https://taylorandfrancis.com/our-policies/textanddatamining/
  tags:
  - Academic
  - Content
  - Full Text
  - Journals
  - Research
  - Text Mining
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://taylorandfrancis.com/our-policies/textanddatamining/
  - type: Support
    url: https://www.tandfonline.com/page/librarians/usage
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/taylor-francis-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://taylorandfrancis.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.tandfonline.com/
- type: LibrarianResources
  url: https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/services-support/authentication-and-remote-access/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/how-to-obtain-institutional-token
- type: Support
  url: https://help.tandfonline.com/s/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://taylorandfrancis.com/our-policies/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://taylorandfrancis.com/privacy-policy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/tandfonline
- type: Contact
  url: https://taylorandfrancis.com/contact/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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