# University of Birmingham

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-birmingham/  
**Website:** https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The University of Birmingham is a public research university in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and a founding member of the Russell Group, ranked #94 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is limited and decentralized: there is no central developer portal or published API program. Confirmed machine-readable interfaces are concentrated in the library/research-repository ecosystem (EPrints-based repositories exposing OAI-PMH endpoints) plus a small open research API from the English Constructicon linguistics project. The institutional GitHub organization exists but currently exposes no public repositories.

## Kin Score — 31.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 58.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

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

## APIs (4)

- **UBIRA eData OAI-PMH** — Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) interface for UBIRA eData, the University's EPrints-based research data repository. Returns Dublin Core metad...
- **UBIRA eTheses OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham eTheses EPrints repository, providing access to metadata for full-text electronic theses produced by resea...
- **ePapers OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham ePapers EPrints repository, holding open access working papers, technical reports and other grey literatur...
- **University of Birmingham Constructions API** — The Constructions API from University of Birmingham — 2 operation(s) for constructions.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Birmingham Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (1)

- **University Of Birmingham Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Birmingham Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, United Kingdom, Research, Open Data, Library, OAI-PMH

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