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 is listed with 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 11 more developer resources.

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20.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
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4 APIs

Academic Books Journals Metadata Publishing Research Text Mining Scholarly Publishing

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 20.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Book Publishing (ONIX / ISBN / EPUB supply chain)	standard	34.5 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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 ...

Taylor & Francis API pricing

Not yet checked against Taylor & Francis's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Institutional Subscriber freemium	Free
Text and Data Mining paid	Free
Enterprise / Commercial enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Institutional Subscriber Default: 60 requests per minute
Institutional Monthly Quota: 10000 requests per month
TDM Access Default: 30 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Taylor & Francis's documentation. All 5 limits →

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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Contact

Contact

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

LibrarianResources

LibrarianResources

Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
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
- Scholarly Publishing
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: Plans
  url: plans/taylor-francis-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/taylor-francis-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/taylor-francis-finops.yml
- 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

Taylor & Francis API — frequently asked questions

Does Taylor & Francis have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Taylor & Francis, including Taylor & Francis Content API, Taylor & Francis KBART Holdings API and Taylor & Francis SUSHI / COUNTER 5 API, and 1 more.

How do I authenticate with the Taylor & Francis API?

Taylor & Francis uses bearer-token authentication.

How much does the Taylor & Francis API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Taylor & Francis, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Taylor & Francis API ready for AI agents?

Taylor & Francis has a Kin Score of 20.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 3.1 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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