University of Reading

---
aid: university-of-reading
name: University of Reading
description: >-
  The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, England,
  ranked #172 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable
  developer footprint is centered on open research and scholarly metadata rather than
  a formal developer portal. The university operates two EPrints-based repositories —
  CentAUR (the Central Archive University of Reading) and the University of Reading
  Research Data Archive — both of which expose live OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
  endpoints. No general-purpose, self-service developer portal, public REST API
  catalog, or official GitHub organization could be confirmed; administrative,
  identity, and student-information interfaces are gated behind institutional
  affiliation and federated authentication.
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-reading/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-reading:centaur-oai-pmh
    name: CentAUR OAI-PMH Metadata API
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for CentAUR, the Central Archive
      University of Reading institutional repository (EPrints). Supports standard
      OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets,
      GetRecord) for harvesting bibliographic metadata of the university's research
      outputs. Confirmed live; Identify returns repositoryName "CentAUR",
      protocolVersion 2.0.
    humanURL: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata, Research, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/information.html
      - type: API
        url: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
  - aid: university-of-reading:research-data-archive-oai-pmh
    name: Research Data Archive OAI-PMH Metadata API
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the University of Reading Research
      Data Archive (EPrints), a multidisciplinary service for the registration,
      preservation, and publication of research datasets produced at the university.
      The Identify endpoint resolves live (HTTP 200).
    humanURL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Research Data, Open Data, Metadata, EPrints ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/
      - type: API
        url: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.reading.ac.uk/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://uk.linkedin.com/school/university-of-reading/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-reading-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-reading-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-reading-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]