# University of Reading

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-reading/  
**Website:** https://www.reading.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 18.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **University Of Reading Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **University Of Reading Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Reading Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Repository, Metadata, United Kingdom

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-reading/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.