University of Reading

aid: university-of-reading
name: University of Reading
description: 'The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, England, ranked #172 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on open research and scholarly metadata rather
  than a formal developer portal. The university operates two EPrints-based repositories — CentAUR (the Central Archive University
  of Reading) and the University of Reading Research Data Archive — both of which expose live OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
  endpoints. No general-purpose, self-service developer portal, public REST API catalog, or official GitHub organization could
  be confirmed; administrative, identity, and student-information interfaces are gated behind institutional affiliation and
  federated authentication.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-reading/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Repository
- Metadata
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-reading:centaur-oai-pmh
  name: CentAUR OAI-PMH Metadata API
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for CentAUR, the Central Archive University of Reading institutional
    repository (EPrints). Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, GetRecord)
    for harvesting bibliographic metadata of the university's research outputs. Confirmed live; Identify returns repositoryName
    "CentAUR", protocolVersion 2.0.
  humanURL: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Research
  - EPrints
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: API
    url: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
- aid: university-of-reading:research-data-archive-oai-pmh
  name: Research Data Archive OAI-PMH Metadata API
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Reading Research Data Archive (EPrints), a multidisciplinary
    service for the registration, preservation, and publication of research datasets produced at the university. The Identify
    endpoint resolves live (HTTP 200).
  humanURL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research Data
  - Open Data
  - Metadata
  - EPrints
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/
  - type: API
    url: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.reading.ac.uk/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://uk.linkedin.com/school/university-of-reading/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-reading-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-reading-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-reading-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com