University of Exeter

---
aid: university-of-exeter
name: University of Exeter
description: >-
  The University of Exeter is a public research university in Devon, United
  Kingdom, and a member of the Russell Group, ranked #169 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and
  largely institutional rather than a packaged developer program: there is no
  dedicated public developer portal. Confirmed surfaces include the Open
  Research Exeter (ORE) DSpace repository, which exposes standard DSpace
  OAI-PMH and REST interfaces for harvesting research outputs and metadata;
  federated identity via a Shibboleth/SAML Identity Provider; the MyExeter
  mobile application backend; and an official GitHub organization that
  publishes some middleware and research code (including WSO2 Micro
  Integrator artifacts).
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-exeter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - Identity
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-exeter:ore-oai-pmh
    name: Open Research Exeter (ORE) OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      Open Research Exeter (ORE) is the University of Exeter's institutional
      repository, built on DSpace, holding research papers, theses, and
      research data. As a DSpace repository it provides a standard OAI-PMH
      interface for metadata harvesting. The endpoint host responds but is
      protected by a bot-mitigation gateway, so the live verb responses could
      not be fully confirmed during this review.
    humanURL: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/
    baseURL: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/oai/request
    tags: [ Research, Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Data, DSpace, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/researchdatamanagement/after/discovery/
  - aid: university-of-exeter:ore-rest
    name: Open Research Exeter (ORE) DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      The Open Research Exeter DSpace platform exposes the standard DSpace
      REST API for programmatic access to communities, collections, items,
      and bitstreams. The repository host is reachable but sits behind a
      bot-mitigation gateway, so the REST API surface could not be fully
      verified live during this review and is documented per DSpace defaults.
    humanURL: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/
    baseURL: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/server/api
    tags: [ Research, Repository, REST, Open Data, DSpace ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/researchdatamanagement/after/discovery/
  - aid: university-of-exeter:shibboleth-idp
    name: University of Exeter Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML SSO)
    description: >-
      The University of Exeter operates a SAML-based federated identity
      service via a Shibboleth Identity Provider used for single sign-on to
      library electronic resources and federated services through the UK
      Access Management Federation. Access is gated to institutional members
      and federation service providers; it is not a self-service developer API.
    humanURL: https://libguides.exeter.ac.uk/eresources/shibboleth
    baseURL: https://elibrary.exeter.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, SAML, Shibboleth, SSO, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://libguides.exeter.ac.uk/eresources/shibboleth
  - aid: university-of-exeter:myexeter-app
    name: MyExeter Mobile App Backend
    description: >-
      MyExeter is the University of Exeter's student mobile application,
      served from m.exeter.ac.uk, providing timetables, campus services, and
      student information. It is backed by undocumented private mobile-app
      APIs intended for the official app only; no public developer
      documentation or self-service access is published.
    humanURL: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/students/myexeter/
    baseURL: https://m.exeter.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Mobile, Student, Timetable, Campus, Private ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/students/myexeter/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Uni-of-Exeter
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Uni-of-Exeter
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-exeter/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/UniofExeter
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://libguides.exeter.ac.uk/eresources/shibboleth
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-exeter-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-exeter-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-exeter-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]