University of Leeds

---
aid: university-of-leeds
name: University of Leeds
description: >-
  The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, United
  Kingdom, ranked #60 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. With more than
  34,000 students and over 7,000 staff, it is a member of the Russell Group of
  research-intensive universities. Its public developer/API footprint is
  modest and centered on the Libraries: a live EPrints-based Research Data Leeds
  Repository exposing an OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, IIIF-enabled Cultural Collections
  delivered via a Digirati-built digital library infrastructure, and an active
  GitHub organisation (uol-library). Library discovery runs on Ex Libris
  Alma/Primo, whose APIs are vendor-provided rather than institution-documented.
  No central, self-service developer portal was found.
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-leeds/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - United Kingdom
  - Research Data
  - Libraries
  - OAI-PMH
  - IIIF
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-leeds:research-data-oai
    name: Research Data Leeds Repository (OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      The institutional research data repository for the University of Leeds,
      powered by EPrints 3. It exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting
      Dublin Core and related metadata records describing deposited research
      datasets, plus Atom and RSS feeds. Verified live (HTTP 200) on
      2026-06-03 via verb=Identify and verb=ListMetadataFormats.
    humanURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Research Data, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Metadata, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-leeds:iiif-cultural-collections
    name: Cultural Collections IIIF
    description: >-
      The University of Leeds Libraries' Cultural Collections are IIIF-enabled
      through a digital library infrastructure built in partnership with
      Digirati (IIIF Image API at the access end, OCFL at the preservation end).
      Tens of thousands of digitised manuscripts, rare books, artworks and coins
      expose IIIF Manifest URLs from their catalogue records. No published
      developer reference or fixed manifest base URL was confirmed; manifests are
      discovered per-record from the Special Collections catalogue.
    humanURL: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
    tags: [ IIIF, Libraries, Digital Collections, Images, Cultural Heritage ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/uol-library/eprints-iiif-manifest
  - aid: university-of-leeds:library-discovery
    name: Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo)
    description: >-
      University of Leeds Libraries discovery and resource management run on the
      Ex Libris Alma library services platform with the Primo discovery layer
      (migrated from Innovative Sierra). Programmatic access is available only
      through the vendor's Alma/Primo REST and SRU APIs, which require
      institution-issued keys; Leeds publishes no public developer documentation
      for these endpoints.
    humanURL: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Libraries, Discovery, Alma, Primo, Ex Libris ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1100/search-resources
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/uol-library
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-leeds/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-leeds-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-leeds-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-leeds-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]