University of Oxford

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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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: 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