University of Aberdeen

---
aid: university-of-aberdeen
name: University of Aberdeen
description: >-
  The University of Aberdeen is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland,
  United Kingdom, founded in 1495 and ranked #236 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centred on the Aberdeen
  University Research Archive (AURA), an open-access institutional repository running
  DSpace 8 that exposes both a DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
  endpoint. The university also operates an Elsevier Pure research portal and maintains
  a verified GitHub organization. No general-purpose public developer portal with
  course, timetable, or student-information-system APIs was found; integration-style
  APIs appear to be internal/gated.
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/university-of-aberdeen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-aberdeen:aura-dspace-rest
    name: AURA DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      The Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA) runs DSpace 8.1 and exposes a
      public HATEOAS REST API for discovering communities, collections, items,
      bitstreams, and related metadata in the open-access institutional repository.
      The API root advertises endpoints for core resources, discovery/search,
      statistics, and configuration.
    humanURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api
    tags: [ Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, DSpace, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api
  - aid: university-of-aberdeen:aura-oai-pmh
    name: AURA OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
    description: >-
      AURA provides an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (repository name "Aura") for harvesting
      Dublin Core and other metadata formats describing the University of Aberdeen's
      open-access research outputs. Standard verbs such as Identify, ListRecords,
      ListSets, and GetRecord are supported.
    humanURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Research, Open Access, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uofa
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-aberdeen/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-aberdeen-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-aberdeen-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-aberdeen-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]