# University of Glasgow

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-glasgow/  
**Website:** https://www.gla.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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).

## Kin Score — 22.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| 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 (2)

- **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...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Glasgow Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Repository, OAI-PMH, United Kingdom, Scotland

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