University of Bristol

---
aid: university-of-bristol
name: University of Bristol
description: >-
  The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, United
  Kingdom, ranked #58 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public
  developer/API footprint is research-oriented rather than a centralized
  developer portal: the Bristol Research Portal (Pure, by Elsevier) exposes a
  documented REST API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface over its open-access research
  outputs, and data.bris is the institution's open research data repository with
  DataCite DOIs. Department-level engineering groups (notably HPC and Computer
  Science) publish open-source code on GitHub, but the university does not
  operate a single unified institutional API/developer program.
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-bristol/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-bristol:pure-research-api
    name: Bristol Research Portal (Pure) API
    description: >-
      REST web services API for the University of Bristol Research Portal, which
      is powered by Elsevier Pure. Documented with an OpenAPI 3.0.1 specification,
      it exposes the Pure model (research outputs, persons, projects, datasets,
      organisations) as interconnected resources supporting anonymous Open Data
      read scenarios as well as authenticated CRUD operations.
    humanURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
    baseURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api
    tags: [ Research, Publications, Open Data, Pure, OpenAPI ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/openapi.json
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-bristol-pure-research-api.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-bristol-research-output-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-bristol-person-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-bristol-dataset-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/university-of-bristol-research-output-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/university-of-bristol-person-structure.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/university-of-bristol-dataset-structure.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-bristol-research-output-list-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-bristol-person-list-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-bristol-dataset-list-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/university-of-bristol-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-bristol-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/university-of-bristol-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-bristol:pure-oai-pmh
    name: Bristol Research Portal OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for the "University of Bristol Open Access Interface
      Repository", allowing harvesting of metadata for the institution's
      open-access research publications via the standard OAI-PMH verbs
      (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, etc.).
    humanURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, Publications, OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-bristol:data-bris
    name: data.bris Research Data Repository
    description: >-
      data.bris is the University of Bristol's open research data repository,
      providing public access to multidisciplinary research datasets. Datasets
      are issued British Library DataCite DOIs and the majority are openly
      downloadable. A unified, publicly documented machine API was not confirmed
      live during review; the repository is primarily a web-based discovery and
      download service with DataCite DOI integration.
    humanURL: https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/
    tags: [ Research Data, Open Data, Repository, DataCite, DOI ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/about
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uob-hpc
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/cs-uob
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-bristol/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-bristol-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-bristol-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-bristol-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]