University of Liverpool

---
aid: university-of-liverpool
name: University of Liverpool
description: >-
  The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool,
  United Kingdom, a founding member of the Russell Group, ranked #165 in the QS
  World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer
  footprint is centered on scholarly and research-data infrastructure rather
  than a unified developer portal: the EPrints-based University of Liverpool
  Repository and the DataCat research data catalogue both expose live OAI-PMH
  metadata-harvesting interfaces. No general-purpose public API developer
  portal, course/timetable API, or self-service API key program was found to be
  publicly documented at the time of review; most institutional systems
  (SSO/IdP, student administration, mobile backends) sit behind authentication
  and are not publicly cataloged.
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-liverpool/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-liverpool:repository-oai
    name: University of Liverpool Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for the University of Liverpool
      Repository, an EPrints-based open-access archive of research outputs
      (journal articles, conference papers, theses, reports, and books).
      Verified live, serving multiple metadata formats including oai_dc, mets,
      didl, rdf, rioxx, and uketd_dc.
    humanURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
    baseURL: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Research, EPrints, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
  - aid: university-of-liverpool:datacat-oai
    name: DataCat Research Data Catalogue OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for DataCat, the University of
      Liverpool research data catalogue (EPrints-based), exposing metadata
      records for finalised research datasets. Verified live and responding to
      the Identify verb.
    humanURL: http://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
    baseURL: https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Research Data, Metadata, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: http://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/information.html
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/livuni
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-liverpool/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-liverpool-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-liverpool-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-liverpool-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]