University of Leeds

aid: university-of-leeds
name: University of Leeds
description: 'The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, United Kingdom, ranked #60 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. With more than 34,000 students and over 7,000 staff, it is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive
  universities. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and centered on the Libraries: a live EPrints-based Research
  Data Leeds Repository exposing an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, IIIF-enabled Cultural Collections delivered via a Digirati-built
  digital library infrastructure, and an active GitHub organisation (uol-library). Library discovery runs on Ex Libris Alma/Primo,
  whose APIs are vendor-provided rather than institution-documented. No central, self-service developer portal was found.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- United Kingdom
- Research Data
- Libraries
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-leeds:research-data-oai
  name: Research Data Leeds Repository (OAI-PMH)
  description: The institutional research data repository for the University of Leeds, powered by EPrints 3. It exposes a
    live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting Dublin Core and related metadata records describing deposited research datasets,
    plus Atom and RSS feeds. Verified live (HTTP 200) on 2026-06-03 via verb=Identify and verb=ListMetadataFormats.
  humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-leeds:iiif-cultural-collections
  name: Cultural Collections IIIF
  description: The University of Leeds Libraries' Cultural Collections are IIIF-enabled through a digital library infrastructure
    built in partnership with Digirati (IIIF Image API at the access end, OCFL at the preservation end). Tens of thousands
    of digitised manuscripts, rare books, artworks and coins expose IIIF Manifest URLs from their catalogue records. No published
    developer reference or fixed manifest base URL was confirmed; manifests are discovered per-record from the Special Collections
    catalogue.
  humanURL: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
  tags:
  - IIIF
  - Libraries
  - Digital Collections
  - Images
  - Cultural Heritage
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uol-library/eprints-iiif-manifest
- aid: university-of-leeds:library-discovery
  name: Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo)
  description: University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management run on the Ex Libris Alma library services
    platform with the Primo discovery layer (migrated from Innovative Sierra). Programmatic access is available only through
    the vendor's Alma/Primo REST and SRU APIs, which require institution-issued keys; Leeds publishes no public developer
    documentation for these endpoints.
  humanURL: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Libraries
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1100/search-resources
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/uol-library
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-leeds/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-leeds-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-leeds-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-leeds-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com