University of Manchester

aid: university-of-manchester
name: University of Manchester
description: 'The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, ranked #31 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is research-led rather than a centrally branded developer portal:
  the institution runs an Elsevier Pure CRIS that exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata feed and a documented Pure REST API,
  surfaces its outputs through the public Research Explorer portal, federates identity via Shibboleth/SAML in the UK Access
  Management Federation, publishes open research data through Figshare, and maintains a small public GitHub organization.
  No unified, self-service developer portal with general-purpose open data or course/timetable APIs was found to be publicly
  documented.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-manchester/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-manchester:pure-oai-pmh
  name: Research Explorer OAI-PMH (Pure)
  description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Manchester's Pure-based institutional repository
    / Current Research Information System (CRIS). The Identify response confirms a "Pure OAI Repository" running protocol
    version 2.0, exposing research output metadata for harvesting via standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats,
    etc.).
  humanURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-manchester:pure-rest
  name: Pure CRIS REST API
  description: The University of Manchester runs Elsevier Pure, which provides a documented REST (CRUD) API for extracting
    from and writing data into the research information system. A Material-for-MkDocs documentation site is served from the
    institution's Pure host, covering API keys, authorization, users/roles and file management, and references an OpenAPI
    3 contract. Access requires a Pure-issued API key, so it is institution-gated rather than openly self-service.
  humanURL: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
  tags:
  - Research
  - CRIS
  - REST
  - OpenAPI
  - Authenticated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-manchester-pure-rest.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/university-of-manchester-researchoutput-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/university-of-manchester-researchoutput-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/university-of-manchester-research-outputs-list-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-manchester-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-manchester-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-manchester-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-manchester:research-explorer
  name: Research Explorer Portal
  description: Public Pure portal exposing the University of Manchester's researcher profiles, research outputs, projects,
    research units, impacts and theses. It is a discovery front end over the Pure CRIS rather than a documented programmatic
    API, but it is the canonical public surface of the institution's research data.
  humanURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Discovery
  - Portal
  - Pure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-manchester:figshare
  name: Research Data Repository (Figshare)
  description: The University of Manchester uses Figshare as its institutional research data repository for depositing and
    openly publishing research datasets. Figshare exposes a public, documented REST API; Manchester's deposits are discoverable
    through it, though the University does not operate the API surface itself.
  humanURL: https://www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/research-services/research-data-management/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - Figshare
  - REST
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
- aid: university-of-manchester:shibboleth-sso
  name: Shibboleth SAML Identity (SSO)
  description: The University of Manchester provides federated authentication via a Shibboleth SAML2 Identity Provider at
    shib.manchester.ac.uk, participating in the Jisc UK Access Management Federation. This is institutional SSO infrastructure
    for staff, students and federated e-resources rather than a public OAuth developer API.
  humanURL: https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/University-of-Manchester
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-university-of-manchester/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-manchester-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-manchester-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-manchester-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com