# University of Sheffield

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-sheffield/  
**Website:** https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

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.

## Kin Score — 41.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 70.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (12)

- **White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH** — 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 inte...
- **White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH** — 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 interfac...
- **University of Sheffield altmetric API** — The altmetric API from University of Sheffield — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **University of Sheffield articles API** — The articles API from University of Sheffield — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **University of Sheffield authors API** — The authors API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **University of Sheffield collections API** — The collections API from University of Sheffield — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **University of Sheffield institutions API** — The institutions API from University of Sheffield — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **University of Sheffield oauth API** — The oauth API from University of Sheffield — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **University of Sheffield other API** — The other API from University of Sheffield — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **University of Sheffield profiles API** — The profiles API from University of Sheffield — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **University of Sheffield projects API** — The projects API from University of Sheffield — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **University of Sheffield symplectic API** — The symplectic API from University of Sheffield — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Sheffield Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **University Of Sheffield Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **University Of Sheffield Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Sheffield Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, Open Access, OAI-PMH, United Kingdom

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