University of St Andrews

aid: university-of-st-andrews
name: University of St Andrews
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of St Andrews is Scotland''s first university, chartered in 1413 with teaching from 1410, and
  a public research institution in Fife with ROR identifier https://ror.org/02wn5qz54. It authors no public API and operates
  no developer portal: probes on 2026-09-01 found no host at api.st-andrews.ac.uk, data.st-andrews.ac.uk, opendata.st-andrews.ac.uk
  or developer.st-andrews.ac.uk, all four NXDOMAIN. What St Andrews genuinely operates itself, on its own registrable domain,
  is metadata and identity infrastructure rather than product APIs. Three surfaces are the institution''s own. Its DSpace
  research repository serves a fully working OAI-PMH 2.0 interface at research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/request with
  twelve metadata formats including the UK electronic-theses profile uketd_dc. Its Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID
  https://idp.st-andrews.ac.uk/shibboleth, has been registered in the UK Access Management Federation since January 2008,
  carries REFEDS Sirtfi assurance, and serves its own live SAML metadata at login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth. And it
  is an enrolled registrant in the scholarly identifier registries, as DataCite provider NAHY and Crossref member 6332. Everything
  else that looks like a St Andrews API is a vendor''s contract running under a St Andrews name: the research portal at research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk
  is an Elsevier Pure tenancy, and the service status page at status.st-andrews.ac.uk is a SorryApp tenancy. Both are recorded
  here as tenant relationships, which they are, and neither vendor''s contract is saved under this slug.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Self-operated protocol endpoints · no institution-authored API product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free and open · no registration on the OAI-PMH or federation metadata endpoints
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-st-andrews.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-st-andrews/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Public Research University
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Persistent Identifiers
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:repository-oai
  name: St Andrews Research Repository OAI-PMH
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for the DSpace-based St Andrews Research Repository, the University''s open-access repository
    of theses, articles and other research outputs. Verified live on 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "St
    Andrews Research Repository", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2006-11-21
    and granularity to the second. verb=ListMetadataFormats returns twelve prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mets, ore, rdf, marc,
    dim, didl, xoai, etdms, uketd_dc) and verb=ListSets returns the community and collection hierarchy under handle prefix
    10023. The host is under the University''s own registrable domain and the repository content, handles and administration
    are the University''s; the application is hosted for St Andrews by University of Edinburgh Information Services (the host
    CNAMEs to research-repository.st-andrews-lb.is.ed.ac.uk), a sector shared service rather than a commercial platform, so
    this is recorded as institution-operated. No spec is saved: OAI-PMH is a protocol with a published standard, not a per-institution
    contract.'
  humanURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/request
  x-operator: institution
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-st-andrews-education-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:identity-federation
  name: University of St Andrews Shibboleth Identity Provider
  description: The University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID https://idp.st-andrews.ac.uk/shibboleth,
    registered in the UK Access Management Federation as entity uk000278 since 2008-01-16 and therefore reachable through
    eduGAIN. The IdP serves its own machine-readable SAML metadata at https://login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth (verified
    200, application/xml, 4,351 bytes, validUntil 2040-07-01). The federation entity declares shibmd:Scope st-andrews.ac.uk,
    SSO bindings over HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign and HTTP-Redirect, an AttributeAuthorityDescriptor exposing SAML 1.0
    and 2.0 SOAP attribute queries, and REFEDS Sirtfi assurance certification. A federation is shared by definition and the
    IdP behind it is the institution's own - this is the strongest institution-operated machine-readable surface St Andrews
    has.
  humanURL: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/it-support/
  baseURL: https://login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
  x-operator: federation
  x-federation: UK Access Management Federation (Jisc) / eduGAIN
  x-entity-id: https://idp.st-andrews.ac.uk/shibboleth
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-st-andrews-education-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:research-portal
  name: St Andrews Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
  description: 'research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk is the University''s research information system and public research portal,
    running on Elsevier Pure - the host CNAMEs to standrews.elsevierpure.com. The research record, the outputs, the projects
    and the dataset DOIs are St Andrews''; the API and the portal software are Elsevier''s, so this is recorded as the tenant
    relationship it is and no Pure contract is saved under this slug. It belongs to all/elsevier. This entry also corrects
    a dead pointer carried since the June 2026 profile: the Pure OAI-PMH endpoint previously recorded at https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai
    no longer exists - risweb 301-redirects to the portal home page, and https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai 301-redirects
    to /error/. No Pure web-service endpoint is publicly reachable.'
  humanURL: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  x-operator: tenant
  x-platform: Elsevier Pure
  x-vendor-repo: all/elsevier
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Research
  - Research Information
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/support/pure/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.standrew
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:status-api
  name: University of St Andrews Service Status API (SorryApp tenancy)
  description: 'The University publishes IT service status at status.st-andrews.ac.uk, which carries a read-only JSON API
    at /api/v1 with /status, /components and /notices. Verified live on 2026-09-01: /api/v1/status returned 200 naming page
    13609 "University of St Andrews service status" with 110 components and 288 notices. The data is entirely St Andrews''
    - named campus systems, real maintenance windows - but the contract is not. The host CNAMEs to a5b404ba.sorryapp.com on
    Heroku, and the documentation page at /api is SorryApp''s product template, carrying placeholder example values (counts
    of 50 and 100, timestamps of 2023-01-01) that do not match the live deployment. This is the same class as an Atlassian
    Statuspage tenancy, and it is recorded the same way: tenant, relationship kept, vendor contract not saved. Three OpenAPI
    documents describing this API, and the twenty-three schema, example, collection, rule, vocabulary, JSON-LD and agentic-access
    artifacts derived from them, were removed from this repository on 2026-09-01 for exactly this reason.'
  humanURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api/v1
  x-operator: tenant
  x-platform: SorryApp
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Status
  - Operational Transparency
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:datacite-membership
  name: DataCite Membership (provider NAHY)
  description: 'The University of St Andrews is a registered DataCite provider - id nahy, symbol NAHY, memberType consortium_organization,
    country GB, rorId https://ror.org/02wn5qz54, created 2020-09-01 - minting DOIs for its research datasets through repository
    client bl.standrew. Verified 2026-09-01 against https://api.datacite.org/providers/nahy (200) and https://api.datacite.org/clients?provider-id=nahy
    (200). This is a membership, a fact about the institution, not a contract it authored: the DataCite API belongs to all/datacite
    and is not saved here.'
  humanURL: https://commons.datacite.org/repositories/bl.standrew
  x-operator: registry
  x-registry: DataCite
  x-registrant-id: nahy
  x-vendor-repo: all/datacite
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - DOI
  - Research Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/nahy
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:crossref-membership
  name: Crossref Membership (member 6332)
  description: The University of St Andrews Library is Crossref member 6332, holding 688 DOIs (151 current, 537 backfile)
    as of a probe on 2026-09-01 against https://api.crossref.org/members?query=st+andrews (200). A registered membership and
    a fact about the institution; the Crossref API belongs to all/crossref and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  x-operator: registry
  x-registry: Crossref
  x-registrant-id: '6332'
  x-vendor-repo: all/crossref
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - DOI
  - Scholarly Publishing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.crossref.org/members/6332
- aid: university-of-st-andrews:ror-registration
  name: ROR Registration (02wn5qz54)
  description: 'The University of St Andrews is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/02wn5qz54,
    status active, types education and funder, established 1410, domain st-andrews.ac.uk, located in St Andrews, Scotland.
    Cross-registry identifiers carried in the record: Funder Registry 501100000740, GRID grid.11914.3c, ISNI 0000 0001 0721
    1626, Wikidata Q216273. Verified 2026-09-01 against https://api.ror.org/organizations/02wn5qz54 (200). A registration,
    not a contract - the ROR API is ROR''s.'
  humanURL: https://ror.org/02wn5qz54
  x-operator: registry
  x-registry: ROR
  x-registrant-id: 02wn5qz54
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
  tags:
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Organization Identifiers
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/02wn5qz54
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no_public_api
  detail: 'St Andrews authors no public API and operates no developer portal, and after a full probe sweep on 2026-09-01 that
    is the correct measurement rather than a gap in the search. The four conventional developer hostnames - api., data., opendata.
    and developer.st-andrews.ac.uk - are all NXDOMAIN. The institution''s genuinely own machine-readable surfaces are protocol
    endpoints rather than products: a working DSpace OAI-PMH 2.0 interface with twelve metadata formats, a UK Access Management
    Federation Shibboleth IdP that serves its own SAML metadata, and registrant records in DataCite, Crossref and ROR. Three
    negative findings are recorded rather than smoothed over. First, https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/llms.txt returns 200 with
    content-type text/plain but its body is byte-identical to sitemap.xml - it is an XML sitemap misfiled under an llms.txt
    name, so no llms.txt credit is taken. Second, https://timetables.st-andrews.ac.uk/ returns 200 on every path including
    /robots.txt with the same 24,707-byte Angular shell (title "Publish", a Scientia web-timetabling product): a soft-200
    SPA, not a machine surface, and its bundle exposes no institution API endpoint. Third, the Pure OAI-PMH endpoint recorded
    in this repository since June 2026 is gone - risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai 301s to the portal home page and research-portal
    /ws/oai 301s to /error/. Two live vendor tenancies remain recorded as relationships: Elsevier Pure for the research portal
    and SorryApp for the status page. The status API''s three OpenAPI documents and their derived artifacts were removed on
    2026-09-01 because the contract is SorryApp''s product template, not St Andrews'' engineering; the repository therefore
    holds no contract, which is the honest state.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: OAI-PMH 2.0, repositoryName "St Andrews Research Repository", granularity to the second
  - url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
    note: twelve prefixes including uketd_dc, mods, mets, ore, rdf, marc, etdms
  - url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/oai/request?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
    note: community/collection set hierarchy under handle prefix 10023
  - url: https://login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
    note: live SAML metadata, application/xml, entityID https://idp.st-andrews.ac.uk/shibboleth
  - url: http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
    status: 200
    note: carries uk000278 St Andrews IdP (registered 2008-01-16, Sirtfi) plus the MacTutor SP
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers/nahy
    status: 200
    note: DataCite provider NAHY, consortium_organization, rorId 02wn5qz54, client bl.standrew
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=st+andrews
    status: 200
    note: single match, member 6332 University of St. Andrews Library, 688 DOIs
  - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/02wn5qz54
    status: 200
    note: active, types education + funder, domain st-andrews.ac.uk
  - url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/api/v1/status
    status: 200
    note: live; host CNAMEs to a5b404ba.sorryapp.com - SorryApp tenancy, contract not St Andrews'
  - url: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/
    status: 200
    note: CNAMEs to standrews.elsevierpure.com - Elsevier Pure tenancy
  - url: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 301
    note: redirects to /error/ - no Pure web service is publicly reachable
  - url: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 301
    note: dead - redirects to the research portal home page; pointer removed from this profile
  - url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 200
    note: body is byte-identical to sitemap.xml - a misfiled sitemap, not an llms.txt
  - url: https://timetables.st-andrews.ac.uk/
    status: 200
    note: Angular SPA shell returned for every path including /robots.txt - soft-200, no API
  - url: https://api.st-andrews.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://data.st-andrews.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://opendata.st-andrews.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://developer.st-andrews.ac.uk/
    status: 0
    note: NXDOMAIN
  - url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 403
    note: no RFC 9116 security.txt served
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/StAResComp
    status: 200
    note: University of St Andrews Research Computing, 60 public repos
  probed: '2026-09-01'
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  name: St Andrews Research Repository (DSpace)
  x-operator: institution
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  name: St Andrews Research Portal
  x-operator: tenant
  x-platform: Elsevier Pure
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://login.st-andrews.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
  name: University of St Andrews Shibboleth IdP metadata
  x-operator: institution
  x-entity-id: https://idp.st-andrews.ac.uk/shibboleth
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml
  name: UK Access Management Federation aggregate (carries entity uk000278)
  x-operator: federation
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://github.com/StAResComp
  name: University of St Andrews Research Computing
  x-operator: institution
  x-public-repos: 60
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/StAResComp
  x-operator: institution
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://timetables.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  name: St Andrews web timetables (Scientia Publish - SPA, no API)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/information-governance-and-management-information-security/use-of-generative-ai---llm.pdf
  name: Use of generative AI (LLM) - information security policy
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/academic-policies-assessment-examination-and-award-good-academic-practice/generative-ai-faqs-students-guidance.pdf
  name: Generative AI FAQs - student guidance on good academic practice
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: Status
  url: https://status.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  x-operator: tenant
  x-platform: SorryApp
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: Blog
  url: https://openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
  name: St Andrews Open Research
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://openresearch.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/feed/
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: Support
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/it-support/
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/terms/
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/terms/data-protection/
  x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-st-andrews/
  x-liveness: live-999-2026-09-01
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-st-andrews-education-standards.yml
  name: Education-regime domain standard conformance
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/university-of-st-andrews-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-st-andrews-domain-security.yml
- 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
x-enrichment:
  pipeline: pipeline-university.md
  run: '2026-09-01'
  note: Re-profiled under the university pipeline's operator axis. Operator attribution settled per surface before any artifact
    was kept; the SorryApp status contract and its derived artifact set were removed as vendor engineering, the dead Pure
    OAI pointer was replaced by the tenant relationship it actually stands for, and three institution-operated or registrant
    surfaces (Shibboleth IdP, DataCite, Crossref, ROR) were added. The composite score is expected to fall; that is the correction
    working.