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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in 1451 and ranked #62 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-accessible developer footprint is centered on scholarly infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the Enlighten institutional repository and Enlighten Research Data repository both run on EPrints and expose OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoints. There is no single university-wide API developer portal; departmental engineering teams publish open-source code on GitHub, and access to most internal systems is gated behind Shibboleth/SAML single sign-on (GUID).

University of Glasgow publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The University of Glasgow catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

University of Glasgow’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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21.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessRepositoryOAI-PMHUnited KingdomScotland

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 21.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten, the University of Glasgow's EPrints institutional repository of publications (journal articles, theses, conference papers...

Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten Research Data, the University of Glasgow's EPrints research data repository and registry. Returns a valid Identify respons...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Glasgow Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Glasgow Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

University Of Glasgow Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

University Of Glasgow Context

18 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

University Of Glasgow Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-glasgow
name: University of Glasgow
description: 'The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, founded in 1451
  and ranked #62 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-accessible developer footprint is centered
  on scholarly infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the Enlighten institutional repository and Enlighten
  Research Data repository both run on EPrints and expose OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoints. There is no single university-wide
  API developer portal; departmental engineering teams publish open-source code on GitHub, and access to most internal systems
  is gated behind Shibboleth/SAML single sign-on (GUID).'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-glasgow:enlighten-oai
  name: Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten, the University of Glasgow's EPrints institutional repository
    of publications (journal articles, theses, conference papers, books and more). Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify,
    ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, GetRecord).
  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
- aid: university-of-glasgow:researchdata-oai
  name: Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten Research Data, the University of Glasgow's EPrints research
    data repository and registry. Returns a valid Identify response and supports standard OAI-PMH verbs for harvesting research
    dataset metadata.
  humanURL: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-glasgow-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UoGSoE
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-glasgow/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/it/
- 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: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-glasgow-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com