University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in 1495 and ranked #236 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centred on the Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA), an open-access institutional repository running DSpace 8 that exposes both a DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. The university also operates an Elsevier Pure research portal and maintains a verified GitHub organization. No general-purpose public developer portal with course, timetable, or student-information-system APIs was found; integration-style APIs appear to be internal/gated.

University of Aberdeen publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The University of Aberdeen catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of Aberdeen’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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19.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

2 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryDSpaceOAI-PMHUnited KingdomScotland

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 19.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 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 0 / 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 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Aberdeen Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: university-of-aberdeen
name: University of Aberdeen
description: 'The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in
  1495 and ranked #236 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centred
  on the Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA), an open-access institutional repository running DSpace 8 that exposes
  both a DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint. The university also operates an Elsevier Pure research
  portal and maintains a verified GitHub organization. No general-purpose public developer portal with course, timetable,
  or student-information-system APIs was found; integration-style APIs appear to be internal/gated.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  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/university-of-aberdeen.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-aberdeen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- DSpace
- OAI-PMH
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-aberdeen:aura-dspace-rest
  name: AURA DSpace REST API
  description: The Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA) runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a public HATEOAS REST API for discovering
    communities, collections, items, bitstreams, and related metadata in the open-access institutional repository. The API
    root advertises endpoints for core resources, discovery/search, statistics, and configuration.
  humanURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api
- aid: university-of-aberdeen:aura-oai-pmh
  name: AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
  description: AURA provides an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (repository name "Aura") for harvesting Dublin Core and other metadata
    formats describing the University of Aberdeen's open-access research outputs. Standard verbs such as Identify, ListRecords,
    ListSets, and GetRecord are supported.
  humanURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/university-of-aberdeen-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-aberdeen-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uofa
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-aberdeen/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-aberdeen-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-aberdeen-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-aberdeen-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

University of Aberdeen

Kin Score

APIs 2

AURA DSpace REST API

AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting

Pricing Plans 1

University Of Aberdeen Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

University Of Aberdeen Rate Limits

FinOps 1

University Of Aberdeen Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

University Of Aberdeen Context

Security Posture 2

University Of Aberdeen Domain Security

University Of Aberdeen Vulnerability Disclosure

Resources