# University of Aberdeen

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-aberdeen/  
**Website:** https://www.abdn.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 19.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **AURA DSpace REST API** — 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 me...
- **AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting** — 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...

## Security (2)

- **University Of Aberdeen Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC
- **University Of Aberdeen Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Aberdeen Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, DSpace, OAI-PMH, United Kingdom, Scotland

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