Imperial College London

aid: imperial-college-london
name: Imperial College London
description: >-
  Imperial College London is a UK public research university (QS World 2025
  #2) specializing in science, engineering, medicine, and business. Its public
  developer footprint is infrastructure-oriented rather than a published API
  program: the institution operates a large GitHub organization for staff and
  student code, the Spiral open-access research repository (DSpace-CRIS), an Ex
  Libris Primo/Alma library discovery system, and Shibboleth/SAML federated
  identity. Imperial does not publish a first-party, self-service developer
  portal with open REST endpoints; most machine-accessible interfaces are
  protocol-standard (OAI-PMH, SAML), vendor-hosted, or require institutional
  authentication.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imperial-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - United Kingdom
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: imperial-college-london:spiral
    name: Spiral Open Access Repository
    description: >-
      Spiral is Imperial College London's open-access institutional
      repository, holding 90,000+ research outputs on the DSpace-CRIS
      platform. As a DSpace deployment it exposes standard OAI-PMH metadata
      harvesting and a DSpace REST API. Endpoint paths follow DSpace
      conventions; large-scale harvesting may be rate-limited.
    humanURL: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
    tags:
      - Repository
      - Open Access
      - DSpace
      - OAI-PMH
      - Research Data
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100012406
      - type: Website
        url: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/imperial-college-london-spiral.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/imperial-college-london-item-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/imperial-college-london-item-structure.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/imperial-college-london-searchObjects-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/imperial-college-london-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/imperial-college-london-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/imperial-college-london-context.jsonld
  - aid: imperial-college-london:shibboleth
    name: Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
    description: >-
      Imperial's SAML 2.0 federated identity provider participates in the UK
      Access Management Federation. It is a standards-based single sign-on
      integration interface rather than a REST API; access requires federation
      membership.
    humanURL: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-services/ict/
    tags:
      - Identity
      - SSO
      - SAML
      - Shibboleth
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/imperial-college-london/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/imperialcollege
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/imperial-college-london-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/imperial-college-london-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/imperial-college-london-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]