University of Glasgow

aid: university-of-glasgow
name: University of Glasgow
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1451 and a member
  of the Russell Group. Its programmable footprint is entirely its own — no part of it was found to be a vendor''s contract
  running under the university''s name — but it is small, unadvertised and library-shaped rather than product-shaped. What
  the institution actually operates and runs itself, verified live on 2026-08-30, is the Enlighten repository estate on its
  own EPrints deployment: three OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints (Publications, Research Data and Theses, the last of which was not previously
  catalogued) and an anonymous read REST interface over the same repositories that the university does not describe anywhere.
  Alongside them it operates a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider scoped gla.ac.uk and registered in the UK Access Management
  Federation, which by volume and maintenance is the institution''s largest machine-readable artifact and is a login federation
  rather than a data API. It mints its own DataCite DOIs under prefix 10.5525 and is Crossref member 21131. Two further surfaces
  are live on Glasgow hosts but run a third party''s contract — the self-hosted Moodle VLE''s LTI 1.3 platform endpoints and
  the library''s Innovative Interfaces Sierra API, both credentialed. Its discovery layer and its research guides are vendor
  tenancies on OCLC WorldCat and Springshare LibGuides, recorded here as tenant relationships and deliberately not credited
  to the university. There is no central developer portal, no API key issuance, no changelog, no status page and no developer
  support channel anywhere on gla.ac.uk.'
type: Index
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Six institution-operated surfaces and one identity federation were found, probed and verified live on 2026-08-30,
    and two vendor-platform tenancies were identified and labelled rather than credited. The profile carries no misattribution
    to correct: nothing in this repository was ever a vendor''s contract, so unlike most of the university cohort there was
    no Figshare, Pure, Ex Libris or Dataverse spec to remove. Three findings are new to this run — the Enlighten Theses OAI-PMH
    endpoint, the Enlighten EPrints REST interface, and the Shibboleth identity provider with its UK federation registration.
    The profile remains thin in developer-experience terms — no portal, no changelog, no status page, no support channel,
    no scopes, no versioning policy and no machine-readable error documents — and that thinness is a measurement of the institution
    rather than a gap in coverage. Two claims were checked and did not survive: www.gla.ac.uk/llms.txt is a 301 redirect to
    a law postgraduate page rather than an agent manifest, and no .well-known/security.txt exists.'
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, repositoryName "Enlighten Publications", 7 metadata formats including rioxx
  - url: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, "Enlighten Research Data", records back to 2015-07-24
  - url: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, "Enlighten Theses" — new find, not in the previous profile
  - url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/rest/
    status: 200
    note: EPrints REST dataset index — eprint, user, subject; anonymous read
  - url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/rest/eprint/1.xml
    status: 200
    note: 12,470-byte EPrints 2.0 XML record returned without credentials
  - url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/rest/user/1.xml
    status: 401
    note: user records correctly gated — the public index lists identifiers only
  - url: https://idp.gla.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    note: SAML 2.0 IdP metadata, entityID https://idp.gla.ac.uk/shibboleth, scope gla.ac.uk
  - url: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/https%3A%2F%2Fidp.gla.ac.uk%2Fshibboleth
    status: 200
    note: signed federation metadata, registrationAuthority ukfederation.org.uk
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.5525
    status: 200
    note: prefix held by DataCite client bl.glasgow, provider ihoc "University of Glasgow"
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=university+of+glasgow
    status: 200
    note: Crossref member 21131, 709 deposited DOIs
  - url: https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
    note: live LTI 1.3 platform JWKS, one RS256 key, on a self-hosted Moodle at 130.209.14.69
  - url: https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/webservice/rest/server.php
    status: 200
    note: Moodle Web Services live; returns an invalidtoken EXCEPTION inside a 200
  - url: https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/iii/sierra-api/v6/info/token
    status: 401
    note: Innovative Interfaces Sierra API live and credentialed on the library's own host
  - url: https://gla.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
    status: 200
    note: OCLC WorldCat Discovery tenancy — vendor contract, recorded as tenant
  - url: https://gla.libguides.com/az/databases
    status: 200
    note: Springshare LibGuides tenancy — vendor contract, recorded as tenant
  - url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 301
    note: soft claim — redirects to /schools/law/postgraduate/; not an agent manifest
  - url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://status.gla.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: does not resolve — no public status page
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free and open — no registration, no key, no scopes
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: Public
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-glasgow.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-glasgow/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- Russell Group
- Research Data
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Identity Federation
- Digital Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-glasgow:enlighten-oai
  name: Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: eprints.gla.ac.uk is a CNAME to new-rocky.lib.gla.ac.uk (130.209.34.164), inside the University of
    Glasgow's own network and under its own registrable domain. The Identify response names the repository "Enlighten Publications"
    with adminEmail research-enlighten@glasgow.ac.uk. The repository software is EPrints, a third party's; the deployment,
    the host, the data and the endpoint are the institution's, which is what the operator axis measures.
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten, the University of Glasgow''s EPrints institutional repository
    of research outputs — journal articles, conference papers, books, book sections and theses. Seven metadata formats are
    offered: oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl, rdf, rioxx (the UK open-access and REF compliance profile) and uketd_dc. Author
    ORCID identifiers are carried inline in the harvestable metadata. Open, unauthenticated, deletedRecord persistent, granularity
    to the second.'
  humanURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Publications
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-glasgow-enlighten-oai-identify-example.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
  - type: x-errors
    url: errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-glasgow-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-glasgow:researchdata-oai
  name: Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: 'researchdata.gla.ac.uk is a CNAME to new-researchdata.lib.gla.ac.uk (130.209.34.138), the institution''s
    own network. Identify names "Enlighten Research Data" with adminEmail research-datamanagement@glasgow.ac.uk. This is the
    surface that in most of this cohort turns out to be a Figshare or Dataverse tenancy — at Glasgow it is not: the repository
    is the university''s own EPrints deployment and the DOIs are minted under the university''s own DataCite prefix.'
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten Research Data, the University of Glasgow's research data repository
    and registry. Records carry DataCite DOIs minted under the university's own prefix in the form 10.5525/gla.researchdata.NNN,
    back to 2015-07-24. Metadata formats oai_dc, didl and rdf. Open and unauthenticated.
  humanURL: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - DataCite
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-glasgow-researchdata-oai-identify-example.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-glasgow-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-glasgow:theses-oai
  name: Enlighten Theses OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: theses.gla.ac.uk is a CNAME to new-theses.lib.gla.ac.uk (130.209.34.163), the institution's own network.
    Identify names "Enlighten Theses" with adminEmail theses@glasgow.ac.uk.
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting over Enlighten Theses, the University of Glasgow's electronic theses repository,
    with records back to 2012-12-10. Offers oai_dc, didl, mets, oai_bibl, rdf and uketd_dc, the UK Electronic Theses Online
    Service profile. Open and unauthenticated. This endpoint was not present in the previous profile of this institution and
    was found by probe on 2026-08-30.
  humanURL: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/information.html
  baseURL: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Theses
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-glasgow-theses-oai-identify-example.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-glasgow:enlighten-rest
  name: Enlighten EPrints REST API
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: Served from the same three institution-owned Enlighten hosts as the OAI-PMH endpoints (eprints, theses
    and researchdata under gla.ac.uk, all on 130.209.34.x). Records are returned in the EPrints 2.0 data namespace with Glasgow
    identifiers such as https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1. No vendor identity appears in any response.
  description: 'An anonymous read interface over the Enlighten repositories that the University of Glasgow does not document
    or advertise anywhere: a dataset index at /rest/, an object index per dataset, a full EPrints 2.0 XML record at /rest/eprint/{id}.xml,
    a field index per record, and a plain text view of any single field. The subject taxonomy is public; the user dataset
    lists identifiers only and each user record returns 401. There is no published OpenAPI — the description carried here
    was derived by API Evangelist from live probes on 2026-08-30 and is marked as such.'
  humanURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/rest
  tags:
  - Repository
  - EPrints
  - Research Outputs
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-glasgow-enlighten-rest-openapi.yml
  - type: x-openapi-original
    url: openapi/_original/university-of-glasgow-enlighten-rest.yml
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-glasgow-eprints-rest-record-example.xml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-glasgow-authentication.yml
  - type: x-errors
    url: errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
  - type: x-lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/university-of-glasgow-lifecycle.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-glasgow-vocabulary.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
- aid: university-of-glasgow:moodle-lti
  name: Moodle VLE — LTI 1.3 Platform and Web Services
  x-operator: institution
  x-vendor: moodle
  x-operator-evidence: moodle.gla.ac.uk is 130.209.14.69, the university's own address space — a self-hosted Moodle, not a
    moodlecloud or vendor-hosted tenancy, so the host rule reads institution. The API contract, the LTI implementation and
    the exception envelope are Moodle's product and are named as such here rather than credited to Glasgow's engineering.
    Moodle's generic specification is deliberately NOT saved under this institution.
  description: 'The University of Glasgow''s virtual learning environment, self-hosted on Moodle, exposes a live LTI 1.3 Advantage
    platform surface — a public JWKS at /mod/lti/certs.php carrying one RS256 signing key, an OIDC authorisation endpoint
    and a token endpoint — plus the Moodle Web Services REST endpoint. Both are credentialed: access is by tool registration
    or token issued by the institution, with no public self-service. This is the university''s only confirmed LTI conformance
    and one of only two surfaces here where the institution runs the host and a third party wrote the contract.'
  humanURL: https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/webservice/rest/server.php
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - LTI
  - Virtual Learning Environment
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-glasgow-authentication.yml
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-glasgow-moodle-lti-jwks-example.json
  - type: x-errors
    url: errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-glasgow:sierra-library-api
  name: Library Sierra API (Innovative Interfaces)
  x-operator: institution
  x-vendor: innovative-interfaces
  x-operator-evidence: eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk is 130.209.19.231, the University of Glasgow Library's own host, and the page
    title is "University of Glasgow Library". The API path /iii/sierra-api/v6/ and the version scheme are Innovative Interfaces'
    product; the deployment and the host are the institution's. Innovative Interfaces' generic specification is deliberately
    NOT saved under this institution.
  description: The library management system's Sierra REST API, live on the University of Glasgow Library's own catalogue
    host. /iii/sierra-api/v6/info/token returned 401 on 2026-08-30 — present and credentialed rather than absent. Keys are
    issued by the library to named partners; there is no public registration path and no public documentation on gla.ac.uk.
    Recorded because a live credentialed endpoint is a finding, not a gap.
  humanURL: https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/iii/sierra-api/v6
  tags:
  - Library
  - Library Catalog
  - Integrated Library System
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-glasgow-authentication.yml
  - type: x-errors
    url: errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/
- aid: university-of-glasgow:worldcat-discovery
  name: WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-vendor: oclc
  x-operator-evidence: gla.on.worldcat.org is an institution-specific subdomain on OCLC's shared worldcat.org platform, reached
    from the University of Glasgow Library's own pages. The holdings and the institutional configuration are Glasgow's; the
    API contract, the keys and the OAuth scheme are OCLC's. This entry records the tenancy, which is a real institutional
    fact, without crediting Glasgow for OCLC's engineering. OCLC's generic specification is deliberately NOT saved here.
  description: The University of Glasgow Library's discovery layer, operated for the university by OCLC on a Glasgow-scoped
    WorldCat subdomain. Programmatic access exists but runs entirely on OCLC's WorldCat Search API, keys and authentication.
  humanURL: https://gla.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
  tags:
  - Library Catalog
  - Discovery
  - Vendor Tenancy
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://gla.on.worldcat.org/advancedsearch
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/
- aid: university-of-glasgow:libguides
  name: LibGuides (Springshare tenancy)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-vendor: springshare
  x-operator-evidence: gla.libguides.com is an institution-specific subdomain on Springshare's shared libguides.com platform,
    linked from the University of Glasgow Library. The guide content and the databases A-Z are Glasgow's; the LibGuides API
    and its site keys are Springshare's. Springshare's generic specification is deliberately NOT saved here.
  description: The library's research guides and databases A-Z, operated for the university by Springshare on a Glasgow-scoped
    LibGuides subdomain. Any machine access runs on Springshare's LibGuides API with site credentials issued by Springshare.
  humanURL: https://gla.libguides.com/az/databases
  tags:
  - Library
  - Research Guides
  - Vendor Tenancy
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://gla.libguides.com/az/databases
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/University-of-Glasgow-Public
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UoGSoE
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-glasgow/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.gla.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/coursecatalogue/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/arc/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/leads/allstaff/generativeai/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/legal/privacy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/legal/termsofuse/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/it/
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-glasgow-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-glasgow-authentication.yml
- type: x-errors
  url: errors/university-of-glasgow-errors.yml
- type: x-lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/university-of-glasgow-lifecycle.yml
- type: x-vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/university-of-glasgow-vocabulary.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-glasgow-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-glasgow-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-glasgow-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-glasgow-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-glasgow-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com