University of Sheffield

aid: university-of-sheffield
name: University of Sheffield
description: 'The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, United Kingdom, ranked #105 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is centered on open research infrastructure rather
  than a single unified developer portal: research data is published through ORDA (the institution''s figshare-backed research
  data repository, which exposes the standard figshare REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint), and research outputs and theses
  are deposited in the White Rose Research Online (EPrints) and White Rose eTheses Online shared repositories, both of which
  expose OAI-PMH harvesting interfaces. The University also maintains public GitHub organizations for IT Services and research
  software engineering. No general-purpose, self-service developer portal for course, timetable, or student-information APIs
  was found publicly documented.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research Data
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-sheffield:orda
  name: ORDA Research Data Repository (figshare API)
  description: ORDA is the University of Sheffield's online research data catalogue and repository, hosted on the figshare
    platform. Public datasets, their metadata and DOIs are accessible programmatically through the standard figshare REST
    API (api.figshare.com/v2) and through an OAI-PMH endpoint at orda.shef.ac.uk/oai. The API and platform are operated by
    figshare, not by a Sheffield-specific developer portal.
  humanURL: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Repository
  - figshare
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-orda.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-author-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-file-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/university-of-sheffield-article-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-list-articles-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/university-of-sheffield-get-article-example.json
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-sheffield:wrro-oai
  name: White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH
  description: White Rose Research Online (WRRO) is the shared open-access research repository for the Universities of Leeds,
    Sheffield and York, running on EPrints. It exposes an OAI-PMH interface for harvesting metadata of University of Sheffield
    research outputs including articles, chapters and conference papers.
  humanURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Open Access
  - Research Outputs
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/information.html
  - type: Portal
    url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-sheffield:wreo-oai
  name: White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH
  description: White Rose eTheses Online (WREO) is the shared electronic theses repository for the Universities of Leeds,
    Sheffield and York, running on EPrints. It exposes an OAI-PMH interface for harvesting University of Sheffield thesis
    metadata.
  humanURL: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Theses
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/SheffieldUni
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/rcgsheffield
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sheffield/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/sheffielduni
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-sheffield-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-sheffield-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-sheffield-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com