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University of Reading

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.

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

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

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18.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessRepositoryMetadataUnited Kingdom

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 18.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 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 2

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

CentAUR OAI-PMH Metadata API

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for CentAUR, the Central Archive University of Reading institutional repository (EPrints). Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, L...

Research Data Archive OAI-PMH Metadata API

OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Reading Research Data Archive (EPrints), a multidisciplinary service for the registration, preservation, and publicat...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

University Of Reading Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

University Of Reading Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

University Of Reading Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

University Of Reading Context

15 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

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

University Of Reading Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

University Of Reading Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 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 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
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-reading.png
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: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/university-of-reading-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-reading-domain-security.yml
- 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