# Taylor & Francis

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/taylor-francis/  
**Website:** https://taylorandfrancis.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 28.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 29.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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

Paid — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **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 ...

## Security (1)

- **Taylor Francis Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Taylor Francis Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Academic, Books, Journals, Metadata, Publishing, Research, Text Mining

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