# University of Exeter

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

The University of Exeter is a public research university in Devon, United Kingdom, and a member of the Russell Group, ranked #169 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely institutional rather than a packaged developer program: there is no dedicated public developer portal. Confirmed surfaces include the Open Research Exeter (ORE) DSpace repository, which exposes standard DSpace OAI-PMH and REST interfaces for harvesting research outputs and metadata; federated identity via a Shibboleth/SAML Identity Provider; the MyExeter mobile application backend; and an official GitHub organization that publishes some middleware and research code (including WSO2 Micro Integrator artifacts).

## Kin Score — 22.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

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

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 (4)

- **Open Research Exeter (ORE) OAI-PMH** — Open Research Exeter (ORE) is the University of Exeter's institutional repository, built on DSpace, holding research papers, theses, and research data. As a DSpace repository it...
- **Open Research Exeter (ORE) DSpace REST API** — The Open Research Exeter DSpace platform exposes the standard DSpace REST API for programmatic access to communities, collections, items, and bitstreams. The repository host is ...
- **University of Exeter Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML SSO)** — The University of Exeter operates a SAML-based federated identity service via a Shibboleth Identity Provider used for single sign-on to library electronic resources and federate...
- **MyExeter Mobile App Backend** — MyExeter is the University of Exeter's student mobile application, served from m.exeter.ac.uk, providing timetables, campus services, and student information. It is backed by un...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Exeter Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, Repository, Identity, United Kingdom

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