University of Nottingham

aid: university-of-nottingham
name: University of Nottingham
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom — a founding Russell
  Group member with campuses in the UK, Malaysia (UNM) and Ningbo, China (UNNC). It runs no public developer portal and publishes
  no OpenAPI, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does operate, on its own nottingham.ac.uk hosts, is three
  genuinely institution-run machine surfaces: a self-hosted DSpace 8.2 / DSpace-CRIS repository at repository.nottingham.ac.uk
  exposing a keyless read-only HAL+JSON REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider (oai_dc, qdc, mets, rdf, dim, etdms, uketd_dc
  and RIOXX v3.0, plus an OpenAIRE CERIF 1.1 base URL), and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider registered in the UK Access
  Management Federation for all three campuses. Its ORCID member integration and its DataCite prefix 10.17639 (1,609 DOIs
  resolving to its own repository) are verifiable from public endpoints. Alongside these it is a tenant on two vendor platforms
  — a Worktribe-hosted Repository@Nottingham OAI-PMH interface and Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE library discovery (NUsearch) —
  whose contracts belong to those vendors, not to Nottingham. Student records, timetabling, module enrolment and the VLE are
  behind SSO and are not publicly documented APIs. Notably, the repository''s human Angular UI is behind an AWS WAF human-verification
  challenge while its machine API is entirely open.'
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-nottingham.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-nottingham/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Russell Group
- United Kingdom
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Library
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-nottingham:repository-rest
  name: Repository@Nottingham DSpace REST API
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Keyless, read-only HAL+JSON REST API of the university''s self-hosted DSpace 8.2 / DSpace-CRIS (cris-2024.02.04)
    institutional repository, served from the university''s own domain at repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api. The root
    document advertises the full DSpace link set — core/communities, core/collections, core/items, core/bitstreams, discover/search/objects,
    discover/browses, config/properties, statistics and authn. Verified live on 2026-08-30: GET /server/api returns 200 application/hal+json
    naming "University of Nottingham Repository"; GET /server/api/core/communities and GET /server/api/discover/search/objects
    both return 200 with real records. The contract itself is the DSpace product''s, shared by every DSpace deployment — so
    no OpenAPI is saved under this institution — but the deployment, the host and the data are Nottingham''s. The Angular
    human UI on the same host is behind an AWS WAF human-verification challenge (405) while this API path is open.'
  humanURL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/research/open-access/
  baseURL: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - DSpace
  - REST
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api
- aid: university-of-nottingham:repository-dspace-oai
  name: Repository@Nottingham OAI-PMH (DSpace, institution-hosted)
  x-operator: institution
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider of the institution-hosted DSpace repository. Verified live 2026-08-30
    — verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName "University of Nottingham Repository", repositoryIdentifier repository.nottingham.ac.uk
    and an OpenAIRE CERIF 1.1 Compatibility block naming a second base URL at /server/oai/openairecris. verb=ListMetadataFormats
    returns eight prefixes including RIOXX v3.0 and uketd_dc (the UK EThOS thesis profile); verb=ListSets enumerates community
    and collection sets covering Nottingham eTheses, eDissertations (UK and UNM) and the CRIS. This is the endpoint that succeeded
    the retired EPrints OAI-PMH interfaces at eprints./etheses.nottingham.ac.uk, which now 301 into this host.
  humanURL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/research/
  baseURL: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - RIOXX
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-nottingham-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-nottingham:identity-federation
  name: University of Nottingham Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered and published as machine-readable metadata
    in the UK Access Management Federation aggregate. EntityID https://idp.nottingham.ac.uk/shibboleth, DisplayName "University
    of Nottingham", with SSO endpoints under /shibboleth-idp/profile/SAML2/{POST,POST-SimpleSign,Redirect}/SSO and SOAP artifact
    resolution on port 8443. Two further campus IdPs are registered — https://idp.nottingham.edu.my/idp/shibboleth (Malaysia)
    and https://idp.nottingham.edu.cn/idp/shibboleth (Ningbo, China) — along with institution-operated SAML service providers
    for the DSpace repository (rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk), the Survey of English Place-Names (epns.nottingham.ac.uk, simpleSAMLphp)
    and International Human Rights Reports (ihrr.nottingham.ac.uk). Non-production entities (testidp., devidp., rdmc-test.)
    also appear in the aggregate and are excluded as placeholders. This is a real, machine-readable, institution-run surface
    and it is the one class of university API that is almost never catalogued.
  humanURL: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
  baseURL: https://idp.nottingham.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-nottingham-conformance.yml
- aid: university-of-nottingham:repository-oai
  name: Repository@Nottingham OAI-PMH (Worktribe tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for the Worktribe-hosted Repository@Nottingham research-outputs showcase. Confirmed
    live 2026-08-30 — verb=Identify returns 200 with repositoryName "Repository@Nottingham", adminEmail discovery-access-systems@nottingham.ac.uk
    and sample identifier oai:nottingham-repository.worktribe.com:702877; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns oai_dc, rioxx and
    uketd_dc. nottingham-repository.worktribe.com is an institution-specific subdomain on Worktribe''s platform: the metadata
    and the research outputs are Nottingham''s, the software and the contract are Worktribe''s. Recorded here as a tenant
    relationship — a real institutional fact — rather than credited to Nottingham as its own engineering. No Worktribe contract
    is saved under this institution.'
  humanURL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/
  baseURL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/oaiprovider
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Worktribe
  - Tenant
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: university-of-nottingham:library-discovery
  name: NUsearch library discovery (Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Library discovery and resource management on Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE, operated as a Nottingham tenant across
    all three campuses. Registered in the UK Access Management Federation as SAML service providers https://nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/mng/login
    ("University of Nottingham (UK campus) – Primo"), plus nottingham-uk.alma.exlibrisgroup.com, nottingham-my.* and nottingham-cn.*.cn
    equivalents for the Malaysia and China campuses. nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/ resolves 200 to /discovery/search?vid=44NOTTS_UNUK:44NOTUK.
    The discovery and Alma APIs belong to Ex Libris and are not saved here; only the tenant relationship is recorded.
  humanURL: https://nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Primo
  - Alma
  - Tenant
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/research/open-access/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://citydataconnector.nottingham.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://digitalresearch.nottingham.ac.uk/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studyingeffectively/ai/ai.aspx
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/open-research/open-research.aspx
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UniversityOfNottingham
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Health-Informatics-UoN
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Nottingham-CTU
- type: Support
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/dts/help/it-support.aspx
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/utilities/terms.aspx
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/utilities/privacy/privacy.aspx
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://digitalresearch.nottingham.ac.uk/feed/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-nottingham/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/UniofNottingham
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-nottingham-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-nottingham-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-nottingham-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-nottingham-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-nottingham-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Three institution-operated machine surfaces were found and verified live on 2026-08-30 — a DSpace 8.2 REST API
    and an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on repository.nottingham.ac.uk, and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider published in the
    UK Access Management Federation metadata aggregate — plus five education-regime domain standards evidenced from public
    endpoints (oai-pmh, shibboleth, saml, orcid, datacite). Two vendor platforms are recorded as tenant relationships rather
    than as Nottingham contracts: Worktribe (Repository@Nottingham) and Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE (NUsearch). No OpenAPI, no
    developer portal and no self-service key issuance exist anywhere on the institution''s public surface, and no contract
    has been generated to stand in for one: the DSpace and OAI-PMH contracts are product contracts shared by every deployment
    of that software and belong in the vendor''s own repo, not here. The legacy EPrints OAI-PMH endpoints previously catalogued
    (eprints. and etheses.nottingham.ac.uk /perl/oai2) now 301 into repository.nottingham.ac.uk and are removed. Student records,
    timetabling, module enrolment and the VLE sit behind SSO and were not probeable.'
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api/core/communities?size=2
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api/discover/search/objects?size=1
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/oai/openairecris?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/server/api/config/properties/orcid.application-client-id
    status: 200
  - url: http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://idp.nottingham.ac.uk/shibboleth-idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
    status: 400
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.17639
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/dois?prefix=10.17639
    status: 200
  - url: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/oaiprovider?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://nusearch.nottingham.ac.uk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://repository.nottingham.ac.uk/
    status: 405
  - url: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/perl/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 405
  - url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://citydataconnector.nottingham.ac.uk/api/3/action/package_list
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=university+of+nottingham
    status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com