University of Bath

aid: university-of-bath
name: University of Bath
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, United Kingdom, and a member of the Russell
  Group. It operates no public developer program: a full crawl of its 21,530-URL sitemap on 2026-08-30 returned no developer
  portal, no API reference, and no published OpenAPI under any bath.ac.uk path. Its one genuinely institution-operated machine-readable
  surface is the Research Data Archive at researchdata.bath.ac.uk — EPrints 3.4.7 running on the University''s own infrastructure
  (138.38.44.144) — which serves a live OAI-PMH 2.0 interface, an EPrints REST/XML interface, and DataCite kernel-4 records
  carrying ORCID identifiers and DOIs under the University''s own 10.15125 prefix. Everything else that appears to be a Bath
  API is a vendor contract running under a Bath hostname: purehost.bath.ac.uk and researchportal.bath.ac.uk both CNAME to
  bath-prod.elsevierpure.com and are an Elsevier Pure tenancy; the library catalogue is an Ex Libris Alma/Primo tenancy; library.bath.ac.uk
  is Springshare LibGuides; status.bath.ac.uk is Better Stack. The programme and unit catalogue is entirely behind CAS authentication
  at auth.bath.ac.uk, and the student records system behind Microsoft Entra ID. An Azure API Management portal exists only
  as a non-production "test" instance and is not recorded as a surface. This profile is deliberately thin because the footprint
  is thin.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-operated repository endpoints · no commercial API product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open harvesting endpoints · no signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-bath.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bath/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Russell Group
- Research Data
- Research Repository
- Open Data
- Library
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
x-ror: https://ror.org/002h8g185
x-doi-prefix: '10.15125'
artifacts:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-bath-conformance.yml
x-enrichment:
  pipeline: pipeline-university.md
  run: '2026-08-30'
  note: Re-profiled under the operator axis. The June 2026 profile credited this institution with 21 OpenAPI definitions and
    43 collections, plus schemas, structures, examples, rulesets, a vocabulary, a JSON-LD context, an authentication profile,
    an agentic-access profile and a capability map — every one of them derived from a single Elsevier Pure contract (info.title
    "Pure API", info.contact pure-support@elsevier.com, servers [/ws/api]) that nine other institutions in this cohort ship
    verbatim. 88 files were removed. The Pure deployment itself is kept, correctly labelled as a tenant relationship. Expect
    this repo's score to fall; the previous number was Elsevier's engineering, not Bath's.
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Bath operates exactly one institution-owned programmable surface and it was fully probed: the researchdata.bath.ac.uk
    EPrints Research Data Archive, whose OAI-PMH endpoint answers Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListRecords, and whose
    DataCite payload carries real DOIs and ORCID iDs. Four further surfaces exist and are recorded as tenant relationships,
    not as Bath''s contracts. Three things could not be resolved and are named rather than assumed: (1) idp.bath.ac.uk did
    not answer on 443 from this network across two attempts, and metadata.ukfederation.org.uk was equally unreachable, so
    Bath''s UK Access Management Federation / eduGAIN entry — the one class this cohort most often misses — is unconfirmed;
    (2) the programme and unit catalogue at www.bath.ac.uk/catalogues/ redirects to CAS at auth.bath.ac.uk and is not publicly
    readable; (3) status.bath.ac.uk answers /api/v2/status.json with 200 but returns text/html of the same byte length as
    its homepage — a soft-404 SPA shell, not a status API, and it is not credited.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite
    status: 200
  - url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/rest/
    status: 200
  - url: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 500
  - url: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/524/openapi.yaml
    status: 401
  - url: https://bath.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/catalogues/
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.bath.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 0
  - url: https://status.bath.ac.uk/api/v2/status.json
    status: 200
apis:
- aid: university-of-bath:researchdata-oai
  name: Research Data Archive OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Bath Research Data Archive, an EPrints 3.4.7
    repository the University runs on its own infrastructure (researchdata.bath.ac.uk resolves through researchdata-1.bath.ac.uk
    to 138.38.44.144, inside Bath''s own address space). Confirmed live 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName "University
    of Bath Research Data Archive", adminEmail research-data@bath.ac.uk, earliest datestamp 2022-03-21. Seven metadata prefixes
    are advertised — didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_datacite, oai_dc, rdf, uketd_dc. This is the one surface in this repo whose
    contract and operation are both the institution''s.'
  humanURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - EPrints
  - DataCite
  - ORCID
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-bath-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-bath:researchdata-rest
  name: Research Data Archive REST/XML
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'EPrints REST/XML interface for the University of Bath Research Data Archive, on the same institution-operated
    host. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: /rest/ returns an "EPrints REST: Datasets" index exposing the eprint, user and subject
    datasets. The interface is EPrints open-source software, deployed and run by the University rather than consumed as a
    hosted service, so both the host and the operation are Bath''s. No OpenAPI is published for it and none is generated here.'
  humanURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/rest
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - REST
  - Repository
  - EPrints
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-bath:pure-ws-api
  name: Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) Web Service — Bath tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'The University''s Elsevier Pure research information system exposes the Pure Web Service under a Bath hostname.
    The DEPLOYMENT is Bath''s and the data is Bath''s; the CONTRACT is Elsevier''s. purehost.bath.ac.uk CNAMEs to bath-prod.elsevierpure.com
    and then eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, and the OpenAPI it serves is titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com
    and a relative server of /ws/api — the identical document nine other institutions in this cohort also shipped as their
    own. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: the documentation index returns 200 and /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns 401 "Please provide
    a valid API key for access". The contract is deliberately NOT stored in this repo; it belongs to Elsevier Pure.'
  humanURL: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html
  baseURL: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - Pure
  - Elsevier
  - Tenant
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html
- aid: university-of-bath:pure-oai
  name: Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) OAI-PMH — Bath tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface served by the University''s Elsevier Pure tenancy, advertising the OpenAIRE
    CERIF 1.2 profile alongside mods, qdc, nl_didl, oai_dc, xmetadiss and uketd_dc. Live but DEFECTIVE as of 2026-08-30: ListMetadataFormats
    and ListRecords return 200, while the mandatory Identify verb returns an Elsevier HTML 500 page. The June 2026 profile
    of this repo recorded Identify as confirmed live (Pure 5.33.3-3); it is not live now, which is why this pipeline probes
    verbs rather than base URLs.'
  humanURL: https://www.bath.ac.uk/services/pure/
  baseURL: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Pure
  - Elsevier
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/overview-of-pure/
- aid: university-of-bath:primo-discovery
  name: Library Discovery (Ex Libris Alma/Primo) — Bath tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: The University of Bath library catalogue runs on Ex Libris Alma with Primo VE discovery. The public front end
    at bath.primo.exlibrisgroup.com redirects to the Bath view (vid=44BAT_INST:NDE) and returns 200. The host is Ex Libris's,
    the view is Bath's, and the programmatic Primo/Alma REST APIs are Ex Libris's contract behind an Ex Libris API key — they
    are not published under this institution.
  humanURL: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/using-the-library-catalogue/
  baseURL: https://bath.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Ex Libris
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/using-the-library-catalogue/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/uniofbathdmc
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-bath/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://library.bath.ac.uk/home
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/courses/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/topics/open-research/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/professional-services/research-computing/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/student-guidance-on-uploading-documents-to-genai-tools-or-third-party-websites/
- type: AITooling
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/support-for-students-to-use-genai-tools-effectively-and-responsibly/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/legal-information/data-protection-and-privacy-statement-summary/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/legal-information/digital-accessibility-policy/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/services/pure/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.bath.ac.uk/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-bath-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-bath-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-bath-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-bath-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-bath-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com