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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22.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

2 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessRepositoryOAI-PMHUnited KingdomScotland

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 22.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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APIs 2

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

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.

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

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

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: '0.23'
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

University of Glasgow

Kin Score

APIs 2

Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH

Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH

Pricing Plans 1

University Of Glasgow Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

University Of Glasgow Rate Limits

FinOps 1

University Of Glasgow Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

University Of Glasgow Context

Security Posture 1

University Of Glasgow Domain Security

Resources