University of Glasgow

---
aid: university-of-glasgow
name: University of Glasgow
description: >-
  The University of Glasgow is a public research university in Glasgow, Scotland,
  United Kingdom, founded in 1451 and ranked #62 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-accessible developer footprint is centered
  on scholarly infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the
  Enlighten institutional repository and Enlighten Research Data repository both
  run on EPrints and expose OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoints. There is
  no single university-wide API developer portal; departmental engineering teams
  publish open-source code on GitHub, and access to most internal systems is
  gated behind Shibboleth/SAML single sign-on (GUID).
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-glasgow/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - United Kingdom
  - Scotland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-glasgow:enlighten-oai
    name: Enlighten Publications OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten, the University of
      Glasgow's EPrints institutional repository of publications (journal
      articles, theses, conference papers, books and more). Supports standard
      OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, GetRecord).
    humanURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
    baseURL: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Publications, EPrints, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/information.html
  - aid: university-of-glasgow:researchdata-oai
    name: Enlighten Research Data OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Enlighten Research Data, the
      University of Glasgow's EPrints research data repository and registry.
      Returns a valid Identify response and supports standard OAI-PMH verbs for
      harvesting research dataset metadata.
    humanURL: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Research Data, EPrints, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/UoGSoE
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-glasgow/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/it/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-glasgow-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-glasgow-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-glasgow-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: blogs/blogs.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/university-of-glasgow-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]