University of Bristol

aid: university-of-bristol
name: University of Bristol
description: 'The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, United Kingdom, ranked #58 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is research-oriented rather than a centralized developer portal:
  the Bristol Research Portal (Pure, by Elsevier) exposes a documented REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface over its open-access
  research outputs, and data.bris is the institution''s open research data repository with DataCite DOIs. Department-level
  engineering groups (notably HPC and Computer Science) publish open-source code on GitHub, but the university does not operate
  a single unified institutional API/developer program.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-bristol:pure-research-api
  name: Bristol Research Portal (Pure) API
  description: REST web services API for the University of Bristol Research Portal, which is powered by Elsevier Pure. Documented
    with an OpenAPI 3.0.1 specification, it exposes the Pure model (research outputs, persons, projects, datasets, organisations)
    as interconnected resources supporting anonymous Open Data read scenarios as well as authenticated CRUD operations.
  humanURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
  baseURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research
  - Publications
  - Open Data
  - Pure
  - OpenAPI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/openapi.json
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-bristol-pure-research-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-bristol-research-output-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-bristol-person-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-bristol-dataset-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/university-of-bristol-research-output-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/university-of-bristol-person-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/university-of-bristol-dataset-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-bristol-research-output-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-bristol-person-list-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-bristol-dataset-list-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-bristol-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-bristol-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-bristol-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-bristol:pure-oai-pmh
  name: Bristol Research Portal OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for the "University of Bristol Open Access Interface Repository", allowing harvesting
    of metadata for the institution's open-access research publications via the standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
    ListMetadataFormats, etc.).
  humanURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Publications
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-bristol:data-bris
  name: data.bris Research Data Repository
  description: data.bris is the University of Bristol's open research data repository, providing public access to multidisciplinary
    research datasets. Datasets are issued British Library DataCite DOIs and the majority are openly downloadable. A unified,
    publicly documented machine API was not confirmed live during review; the repository is primarily a web-based discovery
    and download service with DataCite DOI integration.
  humanURL: https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/about
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uob-hpc
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/cs-uob
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-bristol/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-bristol-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-bristol-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-bristol-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com