University of Birmingham

---
aid: university-of-birmingham
name: University of Birmingham
description: >-
  The University of Birmingham is a public research university in Birmingham,
  United Kingdom, and a founding member of the Russell Group, ranked #94 in the
  QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is
  limited and decentralized: there is no central developer portal or published
  API program. Confirmed machine-readable interfaces are concentrated in the
  library/research-repository ecosystem (EPrints-based repositories exposing
  OAI-PMH endpoints) plus a small open research API from the English
  Constructicon linguistics project. The institutional GitHub organization
  exists but currently exposes no public repositories.
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-birmingham/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - United Kingdom
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-birmingham:edata-oai
    name: UBIRA eData OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
      interface for UBIRA eData, the University's EPrints-based research data
      repository. Returns Dublin Core metadata for archived, DOI-assigned
      datasets. No authentication required.
    humanURL: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://edata.bham.ac.uk/policies.html
  - aid: university-of-birmingham:etheses-oai
    name: UBIRA eTheses OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham
      eTheses EPrints repository, providing access to metadata for full-text
      electronic theses produced by research postgraduates. No authentication
      required.
    humanURL: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Theses, Repository, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-birmingham:epapers-oai
    name: ePapers OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Birmingham
      ePapers EPrints repository, holding open access working papers, technical
      reports and other grey literature. No authentication required.
    humanURL: https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Working Papers, Repository, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-birmingham:english-constructicon
    name: English Constructicon API
    description: >-
      Open research API for the English Constructicon project, a construction
      grammar database hosted at the University of Birmingham. Exposes
      JSON endpoints for listing constructions and retrieving a single
      construction by id. No authentication required.
    humanURL: https://englishconstructicon.bham.ac.uk/database/api/
    baseURL: https://englishconstructicon.bham.ac.uk/database/api/
    tags: [ Research, Linguistics, Construction Grammar, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://englishconstructicon.bham.ac.uk/database/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-birmingham-english-constructicon.yaml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/University-of-Birmingham
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-birmingham/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/unibirmingham
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-birmingham-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-birmingham-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-birmingham-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]