# University of Oxford **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-oxford/ **Website:** https://www.ox.ac.uk/ **APIs profiled:** 10 The University of Oxford is a collegiate public research university in Oxford, United Kingdom, and a Russell Group member. It operates no central developer programme, no API portal, no developer account and no authenticated API of any kind — and the one it used to run, the Open Data Service at data.ox.ac.uk with OxPoints linked data, places, courses and vacancies over REST and SPARQL, was decommissioned without a successor; that domain and the Mobile Oxford API host no longer resolve. What Oxford does operate, entirely inside its library and research-infrastructure estate, is more substantial than that absence suggests: the Bodleian Libraries run a conformant IIIF stack at iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk (Image API 2.1 level 2, Presentation API 2.1 and a Change Discovery 1.0 activity stream over 21,843 items), two independent OAI-PMH data providers (ORA and the Oxford Text Archive), an undocumented but live JSON search API over the institutional repository, and a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation and eduGAIN alongside 35 federated service providers across central IT, departments and colleges. Four of the twelve education-regime domain standards are evidenced directly in what those endpoints return: OAI-PMH, DataCite, ORCID and SAML/Shibboleth. Set against that, four significant surfaces carrying Oxford's name are vendor contracts running under a tenancy and are recorded here as such rather than credited to the University: the Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal at portal.sds.ox.ac.uk is Figshare, SOLO is Ex Libris Primo VE, the VLE is Instructure Canvas, and recruitment is CoreHR. Nothing Oxford operates is documented with a machine-readable contract; every OpenAPI and schema in this repository was derived by API Evangelist from live responses and is marked as such. ## Kin Score — 40.9 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+22.6 from 18.3). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 74.1 | | Contract Quality | 25.8 | | Governance | 22.7 | | Contract Governance | 22.7 | | Operational Transparency | 36.8 | | Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 | | Commercial Clarity | 34.2 | | Access Clarity | 34.2 | Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 32.9 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | no | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | no | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (10) - **ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH** — The only API surface Oxford actually documents. An OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider over the institutional open-access repository, serving ten metadata formats including DataCite kerne... - **ORA — Research Archive Search & Record API** — An undocumented but live JSON search and record API over ORA. GET /objects.json returns a paged, faceted, JSON:API-shaped result set; GET /objects/{uuid}.json returns a single r... - **Digital Bodleian IIIF API** — The strongest institution-operated API surface Oxford runs, and the one entirely absent from this profile before 2026-08-19. Three conformant IIIF specifications on Oxford's own... - **Oxford Text Archive OAI-PMH** — A second, independent OAI-PMH data provider, separate from ORA — the Bodleian Libraries' language-resources repository, running on a self-hosted DSpace installation with an OLAC... - **University of Oxford Shibboleth Identity Provider** — A SAML 2.0 identity provider serving live machine-readable metadata, with Redirect/SSO, POST/SSO, POST-SimpleSign/SSO, POST/SLO and SOAP/Redirect/SLO bindings and a signing cert... - **Oxford Continuing Education WordPress REST API** — The public WordPress REST API of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, live and anonymous on the read paths. Recorded honestly for what it is: a content-management platf... - **Sustainable Digital Scholarship research data portal (Figshare tenancy)** — Oxford's research data portal runs on Figshare under an Oxford-owned hostname. The data, the DOI prefix and the collection are Oxford's; the contract, the API and the engineerin... - **SOLO library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)** — The Bodleian Libraries' discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo VE. Any Primo or Alma REST API reachable under this tenancy is Ex Libris's contract governing Oxford's holdings, not a... - **Oxford Canvas VLE (Instructure tenancy)** — Oxford's virtual learning environment, replacing the retired WebLearn Sakai service. The Canvas LMS REST API and Canvas's LTI and Caliper conformance belong to Instructure. The ... - **Oxford recruitment (CoreHR tenancy)** — Vacancies were once part of Oxford's own open-data programme; they are now a CoreHR application reached through an Oxford vanity hostname. The redirect target leaves the ox.ac.u... ## Security (2) - **University Of Oxford Authentication** — 0 schemes - **University Of Oxford Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Plans (1) - **University Of Oxford Plans Pricing** ## Tags University, Higher Education, Education, Research, United Kingdom, Russell Group, Research Repository, Library, Digital Collections, IIIF, OAI-PMH, Identity Federation, Open Access, Research Computing --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-oxford/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.