University of Aberdeen

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: '0.19'
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: 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