# University of Liverpool

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

The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool, United Kingdom, a founding member of the Russell Group, ranked #165 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on scholarly and research-data infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the EPrints-based University of Liverpool Repository and the DataCat research data catalogue both expose live OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interfaces. No general-purpose public API developer portal, course/timetable API, or self-service API key program was found to be publicly documented at the time of review; most institutional systems (SSO/IdP, student administration, mobile backends) sit behind authentication and are not publicly cataloged.

## Kin Score — 17.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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)

- **University of Liverpool Repository OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the University of Liverpool Repository, an EPrints-based open-access archive of research outputs (journal articles, conference pape...
- **DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of Liverpool research data catalogue (EPrints-based), exposing metadata records for finalised research data...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Liverpool Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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