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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (Oxford, UK; QS World 2025 #3) is a collegiate research university. Historically it ran a notable open-data and developer program via the IT Services Open Data Service (data.ox.ac.uk) and the Mobile Oxford platform, exposing OxPoints, places, courses, and vacancies via REST, SPARQL, and a JavaScript API; that service is now deprecated and its API/docs/mobile domains no longer resolve. The clearly live, documented public API today is the Bodleian Libraries' ORA (Oxford University Research Archive) OAI-PMH metadata interface.

University of Oxford publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and United Kingdom.

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

University of Oxford’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, status page, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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19.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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1 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchUnited KingdomOpen AccessOAI-PMHRepository

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Composite quality — 19.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 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 1

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

ORA — Oxford University Research Archive API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH v2.0) endpoint for Oxford's institutional open-access repository (theses, datasets, and journal articles). Sup...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Oxford Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Oxford Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

University Of Oxford Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Oxford Context

14 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

University Of Oxford Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status
Status
 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
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-oxford
name: University of Oxford
description: 'The University of Oxford (Oxford, UK; QS World 2025 #3) is a collegiate research university. Historically it
  ran a notable open-data and developer program via the IT Services Open Data Service (data.ox.ac.uk) and the Mobile Oxford
  platform, exposing OxPoints, places, courses, and vacancies via REST, SPARQL, and a JavaScript API; that service is now
  deprecated and its API/docs/mobile domains no longer resolve. The clearly live, documented public API today is the Bodleian
  Libraries'' ORA (Oxford University Research Archive) OAI-PMH metadata interface.'
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-oxford.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-oxford/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- United Kingdom
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-oxford:ora
  name: ORA — Oxford University Research Archive API
  description: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH v2.0) endpoint for Oxford's institutional
    open-access repository (theses, datasets, and journal articles). Supports verbs such as Identify, ListSets, and ListMetadataFormats;
    metadata formats include oai_dc, DataCite, OpenAIRE, RIOXX, and EThOS. Open for normal harvesting; large downloads require
    contacting ORA first.
  humanURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/api
  - type: Website
    url: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-oxford-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ox.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ox-it
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/OxfordRSE
- type: Status
  url: https://status.it.ox.ac.uk/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-oxford/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-oxford-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-oxford-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-oxford-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/university-of-oxford-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com