University of Manchester

---
aid: university-of-manchester
name: University of Manchester
description: >-
  The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester,
  England, ranked #31 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public
  developer/API footprint is research-led rather than a centrally branded
  developer portal: the institution runs an Elsevier Pure CRIS that exposes a
  live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata feed and a documented Pure REST API, surfaces its
  outputs through the public Research Explorer portal, federates identity via
  Shibboleth/SAML in the UK Access Management Federation, publishes open
  research data through Figshare, and maintains a small public GitHub
  organization. No unified, self-service developer portal with general-purpose
  open data or course/timetable APIs was found to be publicly documented.
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-manchester/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-manchester:pure-oai-pmh
    name: Research Explorer OAI-PMH (Pure)
    description: >-
      Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of
      Manchester's Pure-based institutional repository / Current Research
      Information System (CRIS). The Identify response confirms a "Pure OAI
      Repository" running protocol version 2.0, exposing research output
      metadata for harvesting via standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
      ListMetadataFormats, etc.).
    humanURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, OAI-PMH, Repository, Metadata, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-manchester:pure-rest
    name: Pure CRIS REST API
    description: >-
      The University of Manchester runs Elsevier Pure, which provides a
      documented REST (CRUD) API for extracting from and writing data into the
      research information system. A Material-for-MkDocs documentation site is
      served from the institution's Pure host, covering API keys, authorization,
      users/roles and file management, and references an OpenAPI 3 contract.
      Access requires a Pure-issued API key, so it is institution-gated rather
      than openly self-service.
    humanURL: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
    tags: [ Research, CRIS, REST, OpenAPI, Authenticated ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-manchester-pure-rest.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/university-of-manchester-researchoutput-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/university-of-manchester-researchoutput-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/university-of-manchester-research-outputs-list-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/university-of-manchester-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-manchester-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/university-of-manchester-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-manchester:research-explorer
    name: Research Explorer Portal
    description: >-
      Public Pure portal exposing the University of Manchester's researcher
      profiles, research outputs, projects, research units, impacts and theses.
      It is a discovery front end over the Pure CRIS rather than a documented
      programmatic API, but it is the canonical public surface of the
      institution's research data.
    humanURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Research, Discovery, Portal, Pure ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-manchester:figshare
    name: Research Data Repository (Figshare)
    description: >-
      The University of Manchester uses Figshare as its institutional research
      data repository for depositing and openly publishing research datasets.
      Figshare exposes a public, documented REST API; Manchester's deposits are
      discoverable through it, though the University does not operate the API
      surface itself.
    humanURL: https://www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/research-services/research-data-management/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Figshare, REST, Open Data ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - aid: university-of-manchester:shibboleth-sso
    name: Shibboleth SAML Identity (SSO)
    description: >-
      The University of Manchester provides federated authentication via a
      Shibboleth SAML2 Identity Provider at shib.manchester.ac.uk, participating
      in the Jisc UK Access Management Federation. This is institutional SSO
      infrastructure for staff, students and federated e-resources rather than a
      public OAuth developer API.
    humanURL: https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/University-of-Manchester
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-university-of-manchester/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-manchester-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-manchester-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-manchester-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]