University of St Andrews

aid: university-of-st-andrews
name: University of St Andrews
description: 'The University of St Andrews is Scotland''s first university (founded 1413) and ranked #90 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint is modest and oriented toward research-data interoperability and operational
  transparency rather than a centralized developer portal. Confirmed public, machine-readable interfaces include a JSON service-status
  API, an OAI-PMH endpoint for the Pure research information system behind the St Andrews Research Portal, and an OAI-PMH
  interface for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository. The university also maintains a Research Computing GitHub
  organization for software produced for and by its researchers.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:status
  name: Service Status API
  description: JSON API for the University of St Andrews service status page, hosted on the Sorry (StatusGator/Sorry App)
    platform. Exposes overall page status, system components, and notices (incidents and maintenance). Rate limited to 10
    requests per second; collections paginate at 25 records per page.
  humanURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  baseURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api/v1
  tags:
  - Status
  - Monitoring
  - JSON
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-st-andrews-status.yaml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-st-andrews-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/university-of-st-andrews-rules.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/university-of-st-andrews-context.jsonld
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:pure-oai
  name: Pure Research Portal OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) endpoint for the University of St Andrews
    Pure research information system, which underpins the public St Andrews Research Portal. Allows harvesting of research
    outputs, projects, people, and dataset metadata in standard XML formats.
  humanURL: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/support/pure/
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:repository-oai
  name: St Andrews Research Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH endpoint for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository, the institution's open-access repository
    of theses, articles, and other research outputs. Supports metadata harvesting via standard verbs and formats (e.g. oai_dc,
    mods, xoai) and set-based selective harvesting.
  humanURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/dspace-oai/request
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/StAResComp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-st-andrews/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-st-andrews-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-st-andrews-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-st-andrews-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com