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University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool, United Kingdom, a founding member of the Russell Group and of the civic "red brick" universities. It runs no public developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI, issues no API keys, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own liverpool.ac.uk and liv.ac.uk hosts, are five genuinely institution-run machine surfaces: two EPrints OAI-PMH 2.0 providers — the University of Liverpool Repository (EPrints 3.4.5, eight metadata formats including RIOXX and uketd_dc) and DataCat, the research data catalogue (EPrints 3.4.4) — a keyless EPrints REST read interface on the repository, an Active Directory Federation Services OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization server at fs.liverpool.ac.uk whose discovery document and JWKS are public, and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation and visible in eduGAIN. Its DataCite membership (BL.LPOOL, prefix 10.17638, 16,405 DOIs resolving into its own repository), its ORCID affiliation programme, its ROR record and its Crossref presence through Liverpool University Press are all verifiable from public endpoints. Alongside these it is a tenant on four vendor platforms — Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE, Talis Aspire reading lists, Instructure Canvas and Symplectic Elements — whose contracts belong to those vendors, not to Liverpool. Student records, timetabling, module enrolment and the VLE sit behind SSO and are not publicly documented APIs. One trap worth recording: livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk returns 403 to a desktop-browser User-Agent and 200 to a harvester, so a browser-only probe grades a live repository dead.

University of Liverpool publishes 14 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Russell Group, and United Kingdom.

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

University of Liverpool’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.

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14 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityRussell GroupUnited KingdomResearchResearch RepositoryResearch DataOpen AccessOAI-PMHEPrintsIdentity FederationLibraryMetadata

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 14

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

University of Liverpool Repository OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the University of Liverpool Repository, an EPrints 3.4.5 open-access archive of research outputs (journal articles, conference pape...

University of Liverpool Repository EPrints REST

Keyless, read-only EPrints REST interface on the institutional repository. Verified live 2026-09-01: GET /rest/ returns 200 listing the eprint, user and subject datasets, and GE...

DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of Liverpool research data catalogue (EPrints 3.4.4), exposing metadata for finalised research datasets. Ve...

University of Liverpool AD FS OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

Institution-operated Active Directory Federation Services authorization server on the university's own host, with a public, keyless discovery document. Verified live 2026-09-01:...

University of Liverpool Shibboleth IdP (UK Access Management Federation)

Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the UK Access Management Federation and visible in eduGAIN. entityID urn:mace:eduserv.org.uk:athens:pro...

University of Liverpool Microsoft Entra ID tenant

The institution's own Microsoft Entra ID tenant, discoverable by its domain name. Verified live 2026-09-01: https://login.microsoftonline.com/liverpool.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/op...

DataCite repository membership (BL.LPOOL)

The University of Liverpool is a DataCite repository member and has been since 2015. Verified 2026-09-01: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool returns 200 with name "Univer...

ORCID affiliation programme (UK ORCID consortium)

The University of Liverpool Library operates an ORCID member integration through the Jisc-run UK ORCID consortium, sending affiliation invitations to research staff and PGR stud...

ROR organisation record (04xs57h96)

The institution's entry in the Research Organization Registry. Verified 2026-09-01: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04xs57h96 returns 200 with display names "University of ...

Crossref membership via Liverpool University Press (member 2165)

Liverpool University Press, the University's own publishing house, is Crossref member 2165. Verified 2026-09-01: https://api.crossref.org/members/2165 returns 200 with primary-n...

Library discovery (Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE tenant)

Library resource management and discovery on Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE, operated as a Liverpool tenant. Verified 2026-09-01: https://liverpool.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discover...

Reading lists (Talis Aspire tenant)

Talis Aspire reading lists, operated as a Liverpool tenant at liverpool.rl.talis.com with the canonical institutional URI http://readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk/. Genuinely machine...

Canvas VLE and LTI 1.3 platform (Instructure tenant)

The university's virtual learning environment is Instructure Canvas on the institution CNAME canvas.liverpool.ac.uk, authenticating through Liverpool's own AD FS. Verified 2026-...

Liverpool Elements research information system (Symplectic tenant)

Liverpool Elements, the university's current research information system, runs at elements.liverpool.ac.uk — an institution host resolving to 138.253.242.19. Verified 2026-09-01...

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

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

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Liverpool Context

21 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

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

University Of Liverpool Authentication

none/oauth2/openIdConnect/saml2 · 5 schemes

SECURITY

University Of Liverpool Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

University Of Liverpool Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: university-of-liverpool
name: University of Liverpool
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool, United Kingdom, a founding member
  of the Russell Group and of the civic "red brick" universities. It runs no public developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI,
  issues no API keys, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own liverpool.ac.uk and liv.ac.uk
  hosts, are five genuinely institution-run machine surfaces: two EPrints OAI-PMH 2.0 providers — the University of Liverpool
  Repository (EPrints 3.4.5, eight metadata formats including RIOXX and uketd_dc) and DataCat, the research data catalogue
  (EPrints 3.4.4) — a keyless EPrints REST read interface on the repository, an Active Directory Federation Services OAuth
  2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization server at fs.liverpool.ac.uk whose discovery document and JWKS are public, and a Shibboleth
  SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation and visible in eduGAIN. Its DataCite membership
  (BL.LPOOL, prefix 10.17638, 16,405 DOIs resolving into its own repository), its ORCID affiliation programme, its ROR record
  and its Crossref presence through Liverpool University Press are all verifiable from public endpoints. Alongside these it
  is a tenant on four vendor platforms — Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE, Talis Aspire reading lists, Instructure Canvas and Symplectic
  Elements — whose contracts belong to those vendors, not to Liverpool. Student records, timetabling, module enrolment and
  the VLE sit behind SSO and are not publicly documented APIs. One trap worth recording: livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk returns
  403 to a desktop-browser User-Agent and 200 to a harvester, so a browser-only probe grades a live repository dead.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-liverpool.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-liverpool/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Russell Group
- United Kingdom
- Research
- Research Repository
- Research Data
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- EPrints
- Identity Federation
- Library
- Metadata
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-liverpool:repository-oai
  name: University of Liverpool Repository OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the University of Liverpool Repository, an EPrints 3.4.5 open-access
    archive of research outputs (journal articles, conference papers, theses, reports and books), served from the institution''s
    own host. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns 200 with repositoryName "The University of Liverpool Repository",
    repositoryIdentifier livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk, deletedRecord "persistent", granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, earliestDatestamp
    2016-03-29T13:54:54Z and full metadata, data and submission policy statements. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns eight
    prefixes — didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, primo_dc, rdf, rioxx and uketd_dc (the UK EThOS thesis profile). The EPrints
    software is the University of Southampton''s; the deployment, the host, the DOIs and the data are Liverpool''s, and no
    EPrints product contract is saved under this institution. Note the User-Agent filter on this host: 200 to a harvester
    UA, 403 to a desktop-browser UA.'
  humanURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
  baseURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - EPrints
  - RIOXX
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-liverpool-conformance.yml
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-liverpool-oai-error-codes.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:repository-rest
  name: University of Liverpool Repository EPrints REST
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Keyless, read-only EPrints REST interface on the institutional repository. Verified live 2026-09-01: GET /rest/
    returns 200 listing the eprint, user and subject datasets, and GET /rest/eprint/ returns 200 with 7,456,493 bytes enumerating
    every eprint id in the repository — no key, no token, no registration. The equivalent path on DataCat is configured differently:
    GET https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/rest/ returns 200 but the item fetch /rest/eprint/2481.xml returns 401, so the two
    EPrints deployments do not share an access posture. As with the OAI-PMH interface, the contract is the EPrints product''s
    and is not saved here; the deployment and the data are the institution''s.'
  humanURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
  baseURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/rest/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - REST
  - EPrints
  - Open Access
  - Research
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-liverpool-authentication.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:datacat-oai
  name: DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of Liverpool research data catalogue
    (EPrints 3.4.4), exposing metadata for finalised research datasets. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns 200
    with repositoryName "DataCat: The Research Data Catalogue", repositoryIdentifier datacat.liverpool.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp
    2026-04-14T08:58:23Z and deletedRecord "persistent"; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns didl, mets, oai_bibl, oai_dc, rdf
    and uketd_dc; verb=ListSets returns 61,189 bytes of set structure. Institution-hosted and institution-operated; the EPrints
    contract is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
  baseURL: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - Metadata
  - EPrints
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: Errors
    url: errors/university-of-liverpool-oai-error-codes.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:adfs-oauth-oidc
  name: University of Liverpool AD FS OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Institution-operated Active Directory Federation Services authorization server on the university''s own host,
    with a public, keyless discovery document. Verified live 2026-09-01: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
    returns 200 with issuer https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs, authorization, token and userinfo endpoints, RS256 id-token signing,
    nine supported scopes and nine grant types including device_code and jwt-bearer; https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/discovery/keys
    returns 200 with a live RSA signing key. The same deployment publishes SAML 2.0 / WS-Federation metadata at /FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
    (200, application/samlmetadata+xml, 83,212 bytes, entityID http://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/services/trust) and is the SP-initiated
    login target for the university''s Canvas VLE. This is the closest thing the institution has to a published, machine-readable
    API contract of its own, and there is no self-service client registration behind it.'
  humanURL: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/ls/idpinitiatedsignon
  baseURL: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - OpenID Connect
  - OAuth 2.0
  - SAML
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-liverpool-authentication.yml
  - type: Scopes
    url: scopes/university-of-liverpool-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:identity-federation
  name: University of Liverpool Shibboleth IdP (UK Access Management Federation)
  x-operator: federation
  description: Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the UK Access Management Federation
    and visible in eduGAIN. entityID urn:mace:eduserv.org.uk:athens:provider:liv.ac.uk, mdui:DisplayName "University of Liverpool",
    scope liv.ac.uk, registrationAuthority http://ukfederation.org.uk, Sirtfi asserted. The federation MDQ service serves
    the metadata live — 200, 9,390 bytes — and the IdP self-publishes the same document at https://shibboleth3.liv.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    (200, application/xml). SSO endpoints run under https://shibboleth3.liv.ac.uk/idp/profile/SAML2/{Redirect,POST, POST-SimpleSign}/SSO
    with SLO and SAML1 SOAP artifact resolution on port 8443; the Redirect/SSO endpoint returns 400 to a parameterless GET,
    which is a live IdP rejecting a malformed AuthnRequest. Two non-production entities registered under the same institution
    (shibboleth2.liv.ac.uk "University of Liverpool (TEST do not use)" and shibboleth3.liv.ac.uk "University of Liverpool
    - Test") are excluded as placeholders. A federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind this entry is Liverpool's.
  humanURL: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
  baseURL: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aeduserv.org.uk%3Aathens%3Aprovider%3Aliv.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-liverpool-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:entra-tenant
  name: University of Liverpool Microsoft Entra ID tenant
  x-operator: federation
  description: 'The institution''s own Microsoft Entra ID tenant, discoverable by its domain name. Verified live 2026-09-01:
    https://login.microsoftonline.com/liverpool.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration returns 200 with issuer https://login.microsoftonline.com/53255131-b129-4010-86e1-474bfd7e8076/v2.0
    and tenant_region_scope EU. Microsoft operates the platform; the tenant, the directory and the identities are Liverpool''s.
    Recorded as a federation relationship — no Microsoft contract is saved under this institution.'
  humanURL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/it/
  baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/liverpool.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - OpenID Connect
  - Entra ID
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-liverpool-authentication.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:datacite-membership
  name: DataCite repository membership (BL.LPOOL)
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'The University of Liverpool is a DataCite repository member and has been since 2015. Verified 2026-09-01:
    https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool returns 200 with name "University of Liverpool", symbol BL.LPOOL, clientType
    repository, created 2015-04-29 and declared domains liv.ac.uk, liverpool.ac.uk, datacat.liverpool.ac.uk and livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk.
    One DOI prefix, 10.17638, is bound to the client, and 16,405 DOIs are registered under it — the first of which, 10.17638/03200178,
    resolves to https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3200178, i.e. into the institution''s own repository rather
    than a vendor host. This is a fact about the institution recorded through a shared registry; DataCite''s own contract
    is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/
  baseURL: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool
  tags:
  - Registry
  - DataCite
  - DOI
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research Data
- aid: university-of-liverpool:orcid-membership
  name: ORCID affiliation programme (UK ORCID consortium)
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'The University of Liverpool Library operates an ORCID member integration through the Jisc-run UK ORCID consortium,
    sending affiliation invitations to research staff and PGR students via the ORCID Affiliation Manager and syncing publications
    between ORCID and the Liverpool Elements CRIS. Verified 2026-09-01: the ORCID public API returns 13,225 records carrying
    "University of Liverpool" as an affiliation, and the library documents the programme at https://libguides.liverpool.ac.uk/blog/ORCID-Affiliation-Project
    (200) and https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/researcher-profiles/orcid/ (200). Registry membership, not a Liverpool
    contract — ORCID''s API is ORCID''s.'
  humanURL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/researcher-profiles/orcid/
  baseURL: https://pub.orcid.org/v3.0/expanded-search/?q=affiliation-org-name:%22University%20of%20Liverpool%22
  tags:
  - Registry
  - ORCID
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Research
  - Open Research
- aid: university-of-liverpool:ror-record
  name: ROR organisation record (04xs57h96)
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'The institution''s entry in the Research Organization Registry. Verified 2026-09-01: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04xs57h96
    returns 200 with display names "University of Liverpool" and "Prifysgol Lerpwl", and external identifiers Crossref Funder
    Registry 501100000836, GRID grid.10025.36, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8470 and Wikidata Q499510. Registry membership; ROR''s
    API belongs to ROR.'
  humanURL: https://ror.org/04xs57h96
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04xs57h96
  tags:
  - Registry
  - ROR
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Organisation Identifiers
- aid: university-of-liverpool:crossref-membership
  name: Crossref membership via Liverpool University Press (member 2165)
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'Liverpool University Press, the University''s own publishing house, is Crossref member 2165. Verified 2026-09-01:
    https://api.crossref.org/members/2165 returns 200 with primary-name "Liverpool University Press", location "Liverpool,
    United Kingdom", DOI prefix 10.3828 and 114,739 registered DOIs. A Crossref member query for "liverpool" returns this
    record and no other, so the institution registers no Crossref prefix in its own name; it does hold Crossref Funder Registry
    ID 501100000836. Recorded narrowly, as the press''s membership, not as a university-wide Crossref API.'
  humanURL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/liverpool-university-press/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/2165
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Publishing
  - Persistent Identifiers
- aid: university-of-liverpool:library-discovery
  name: Library discovery (Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Library resource management and discovery on Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE, operated as a Liverpool tenant.
    Verified 2026-09-01: https://liverpool.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LIV_INST:LIV returns 200, and both
    liverpool.alma.exlibrisgroup.com and liverpool.primo.exlibrisgroup.com are registered in the UK Access Management Federation
    as SAML service providers named "University of Liverpool - Alma" and "University of Liverpool - PrimoVE" — under the Ex
    Libris (UK) Limited entity, not Liverpool''s. The Alma and Primo APIs are Ex Libris''s and are not saved here; only the
    tenant relationship is recorded. library.liverpool.ac.uk redirects to OpenAthens (eu.libauth.com/login/saml), and libguides./libanswers.liverpool.ac.uk
    are Springshare tenants on institution CNAMEs.'
  humanURL: https://liverpool.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LIV_INST:LIV
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Tenant
- aid: university-of-liverpool:reading-lists
  name: Reading lists (Talis Aspire tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Talis Aspire reading lists, operated as a Liverpool tenant at liverpool.rl.talis.com with the canonical institutional
    URI http://readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk/. Genuinely machine-readable: https://liverpool.rl.talis.com/index.json returns
    200 application/json (9,166 bytes) of RDF describing the institution as an aiiso:Institution named "University of Liverpool"
    with five faculty organizationalUnits. The Talis Aspire contract and vocabulary are Talis''s; the lists, the structure
    and the data are Liverpool''s. readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk itself presents a certificate that does not match the host,
    so the talis.com hostname is the usable one.'
  humanURL: https://liverpool.rl.talis.com/index.html
  baseURL: https://liverpool.rl.talis.com/index.json
  tags:
  - Library
  - Reading Lists
  - Talis Aspire
  - Linked Data
  - RDF
  - Tenant
- aid: university-of-liverpool:vle-lti
  name: Canvas VLE and LTI 1.3 platform (Instructure tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'The university''s virtual learning environment is Instructure Canvas on the institution CNAME canvas.liverpool.ac.uk,
    authenticating through Liverpool''s own AD FS. Verified 2026-09-01: the root URL 302s into https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/ls/
    with a signed SAMLRequest; https://canvas.liverpool.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks returns 200 application/json with a live
    LTI 1.3 platform RSA key set; https://canvas.liverpool.ac.uk/api/v1/accounts returns 401, so the data API is closed. The
    LTI implementation and the Canvas API contract are Instructure''s; the tenant, the courses and the identity binding are
    Liverpool''s. No Instructure contract is saved here.'
  humanURL: https://canvas.liverpool.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://canvas.liverpool.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks
  tags:
  - VLE
  - LMS
  - LTI
  - Canvas
  - Instructure
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-liverpool-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-liverpool:research-information
  name: Liverpool Elements research information system (Symplectic tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Liverpool Elements, the university''s current research information system, runs at elements.liverpool.ac.uk
    — an institution host resolving to 138.253.242.19. Verified 2026-09-01: the landing page returns 401 (Auth Required) at
    /homepage.html?em=false, so there is no public read surface and no published contract. Elements is Symplectic''s product;
    the CRIS records, the ORCID sync and the researcher profiles are Liverpool''s. Recorded as a tenant relationship for completeness
    — no Symplectic contract is saved here, and nothing about this system is machine-readable without credentials.'
  humanURL: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/researcher-profiles/
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - CRIS
  - Symplectic Elements
  - Tenant
  - Gated
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://liverpool.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44LIV_INST:LIV
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/research-it/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/the-university/reports-policies-and-governance/ai-at-liverpool/policies-and-guidance/
- type: AITooling
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/about/the-university/reports-policies-and-governance/ai-at-liverpool/support-and-activities/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/open-research/
- type: Support
  url: https://libanswers.liverpool.ac.uk/
- type: Blog
  url: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/feed/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/legal/data_protection/privacy-notices/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/legal/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/accessibility/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/livuni
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-liverpool/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-liverpool-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-liverpool-authentication.yml
- type: Scopes
  url: scopes/university-of-liverpool-scopes.yml
- type: Errors
  url: errors/university-of-liverpool-oai-error-codes.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-liverpool-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-liverpool-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-liverpool-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-liverpool-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Five institution-operated machine surfaces were found and verified live on 2026-09-01 — two EPrints OAI-PMH 2.0
    providers (livrepository and datacat), a keyless EPrints REST read interface, an AD FS OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect authorization
    server with public discovery and JWKS at fs.liverpool.ac.uk, and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 IdP published in the UK Access
    Management Federation and eduGAIN — plus a Microsoft Entra ID tenant and four registry memberships (DataCite BL.LPOOL/10.17638,
    ORCID via the UK consortium, ROR 04xs57h96, Crossref through Liverpool University Press). Seven of the twelve education-regime
    domain standards are evidenced from public endpoints: oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, orcid, datacite, crossref and lti (the
    last on a tenant). Four vendor platforms are recorded as tenant relationships rather than as Liverpool contracts: Ex Libris
    Alma/Primo VE, Talis Aspire, Instructure Canvas and Symplectic Elements. No OpenAPI, no developer portal, no self-service
    key issuance and no course/timetable API exist anywhere on the institution''s public surface, and none has been generated
    to stand in for one — the EPrints, DSpace-style, Canvas and Elements contracts are product contracts shared by every deployment
    of that software and belong in the vendor''s own repo, not here. Two negative findings worth keeping: livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk
    answers 403 to a desktop-browser User-Agent and 200 to a harvester, and the institution''s WordPress newsroom gates /wp-json
    while leaving RSS open. No .well-known/security.txt, llms.txt or apis.json is served on www.liverpool.ac.uk (all 404).'
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/rest/eprint/
    status: 200
  - url: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/adfs/discovery/keys
    status: 200
  - url: https://fs.liverpool.ac.uk/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: http://mdq.ukfederation.org.uk/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aeduserv.org.uk%3Aathens%3Aprovider%3Aliv.ac.uk
    status: 200
  - url: https://shibboleth3.liv.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/liverpool.ac.uk/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.lpool
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/04xs57h96
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/2165
    status: 200
  - url: https://liverpool.rl.talis.com/index.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://canvas.liverpool.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks
    status: 200
  - url: https://canvas.liverpool.ac.uk/api/v1/accounts
    status: 401
  - url: https://elements.liverpool.ac.uk/
    status: 401
  - url: https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
    status: 401
  - url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://data.liverpool.ac.uk/
    status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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