University of Bath

---
aid: university-of-bath
name: University of Bath
description: >-
  The University of Bath is a public research university in Bath, United Kingdom,
  ranked #150 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable
  developer footprint is centered on scholarly metadata rather than a commercial
  developer program: an Elsevier Pure research portal exposing an OAI-PMH interface,
  an EPrints 3.4 Research Data Archive with OAI-PMH and a REST interface, and an
  Ex Libris Alma/Primo library discovery platform. The University operates an Azure
  API Management developer portal, but the publicly reachable instance is a non-production
  ("test") environment with no openly documented production APIs. Administrative and
  identity services are gated behind institutional affiliation.
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-bath/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - United Kingdom
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Library
  - Metadata
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
artifacts:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-bath-pure-api.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/university-of-bath-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/university-of-bath-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-bath-context.jsonld
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-bath:pure-oai
    name: Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the University of Bath Open
      Access Repository, served by the institution's Elsevier Pure research
      information system. Confirmed live via the Identify verb (Pure 5.33.3-3,
      earliest datestamp November 2014).
    humanURL: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/overview-of-pure/
    baseURL: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, Metadata, OAI-PMH, Repository, Pure ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/overview-of-pure/
  - aid: university-of-bath:researchdata-oai
    name: Research Data Archive OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Bath Research
      Data Archive, an EPrints 3.4 institutional data repository. Confirmed live;
      the archive footer advertises OAI 2.0 support at this base URL.
    humanURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Research, Open Data, OAI-PMH, Repository, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-bath:researchdata-rest
    name: Research Data Archive REST/Feeds
    description: >-
      EPrints REST/XML interface and Atom/RSS feeds for the University of Bath
      Research Data Archive, exposing dataset records and search. The /rest path
      resolves (HTTP 200); EPrints provides RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds.
    humanURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/rest
    tags: [ Research, Open Data, REST, Repository, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-bath:primo-discovery
    name: Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)
    description: >-
      The University of Bath library catalogue runs on Ex Libris Alma with the
      Primo discovery service. Primo VE exposes search/discovery interfaces (Primo
      REST/Search APIs) typically requiring an Ex Libris API key; the public Primo
      front end at bath.primo.exlibrisgroup.com resolves (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/using-the-library-catalogue/
    baseURL: https://bath.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/
    tags: [ Library, Discovery, Primo, Alma, Ex Libris ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/guides/using-the-library-catalogue/
  - aid: university-of-bath:apim-portal
    name: Azure API Management Developer Portal (non-production)
    description: >-
      The University operates a Microsoft Azure API Management developer portal.
      The publicly reachable instance is a non-production "test" environment
      (portal.apim.test.bath.ac.uk, HTTP 200) with sign-in/sign-up but no openly
      documented production APIs. Listed for transparency; no production endpoints
      are confirmed.
    humanURL: https://portal.apim.test.bath.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Developer Portal, Azure APIM, Gated ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://portal.apim.test.bath.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.bath.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uniofbathdmc
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-bath/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://portal.apim.test.bath.ac.uk/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-bath-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-bath-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-bath-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]