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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom, ranked #71 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. As a research-intensive institution it operates Repository@Nottingham (powered by Worktribe) which exposes a publicly accessible OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface for its research outputs, alongside legacy EPrints repositories (Nottingham ePrints, eTheses). Most institutional systems (student records, timetabling, library discovery, identity) are gated behind SSO and are not publicly documented developer APIs. The university maintains several official GitHub organizations publishing open-source code.

University of Nottingham publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

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

University of Nottingham’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 10 more developer resources.

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20.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFree
2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessOAI-PMHUnited Kingdom

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 20.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

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

Repository@Nottingham OAI-PMH

Publicly accessible OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface for Repository@Nottingham, the university's institutional research repository p...

Nottingham ePrints / eTheses OAI-PMH (gated)

Legacy EPrints repositories (Nottingham ePrints, Nottingham eTheses, Nottingham eDissertations) historically exposed OAI-PMH endpoints at /perl/oai2. As of verification these en...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Nottingham Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Nottingham Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

University Of Nottingham Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Nottingham Context

8 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

University Of Nottingham Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-nottingham
name: University of Nottingham
description: 'The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom, ranked #71 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. As a research-intensive institution it operates Repository@Nottingham (powered by Worktribe)
  which exposes a publicly accessible OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface for its research outputs, alongside legacy EPrints
  repositories (Nottingham ePrints, eTheses). Most institutional systems (student records, timetabling, library discovery,
  identity) are gated behind SSO and are not publicly documented developer APIs. The university maintains several official
  GitHub organizations publishing open-source code.'
type: Index
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: Consumer
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
- Research
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-nottingham:repository-oai
  name: Repository@Nottingham OAI-PMH
  description: Publicly accessible OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) interface for Repository@Nottingham,
    the university's institutional research repository powered by Worktribe. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
    ListMetadataFormats, etc.) returning Dublin Core and other metadata for research outputs. Confirmed live returning valid
    OAI-PMH XML.
  humanURL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/
  baseURL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/oaiprovider
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: university-of-nottingham:eprints-oai
  name: Nottingham ePrints / eTheses OAI-PMH (gated)
  description: Legacy EPrints repositories (Nottingham ePrints, Nottingham eTheses, Nottingham eDissertations) historically
    exposed OAI-PMH endpoints at /perl/oai2. As of verification these endpoints are protected by an AWS WAF human-verification
    challenge and do not return harvestable metadata over a direct programmatic request, so they are documented here as gated
    rather than openly available.
  humanURL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Research
  - Gated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/information.html
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-nottingham-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/dts/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/UniversityOfNottingham
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Health-Informatics-UoN
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-nottingham/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/UniofNottingham
- 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
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com