University of Sheffield

---
aid: university-of-sheffield
name: University of Sheffield
description: >-
  The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield,
  United Kingdom, ranked #105 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its
  public developer and API footprint is centered on open research
  infrastructure rather than a single unified developer portal: research data
  is published through ORDA (the institution's figshare-backed research data
  repository, which exposes the standard figshare REST API and an OAI-PMH
  endpoint), and research outputs and theses are deposited in the
  White Rose Research Online (EPrints) and White Rose eTheses Online shared
  repositories, both of which expose OAI-PMH harvesting interfaces. The
  University also maintains public GitHub organizations for IT Services and
  research software engineering. No general-purpose, self-service developer
  portal for course, timetable, or student-information APIs was found 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-sheffield/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-sheffield:orda
    name: ORDA Research Data Repository (figshare API)
    description: >-
      ORDA is the University of Sheffield's online research data catalogue and
      repository, hosted on the figshare platform. Public datasets, their
      metadata and DOIs are accessible programmatically through the standard
      figshare REST API (api.figshare.com/v2) and through an OAI-PMH endpoint at
      orda.shef.ac.uk/oai. The API and platform are operated by figshare, not by
      a Sheffield-specific developer portal.
    humanURL: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, figshare, OAI-PMH, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Portal
        url: https://orda.shef.ac.uk/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-sheffield-orda.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-article-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-author-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/university-of-sheffield-file-schema.json
      - type: JSONStructure
        url: json-structure/university-of-sheffield-article-structure.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-sheffield-list-articles-example.json
      - type: Example
        url: examples/university-of-sheffield-get-article-example.json
      - type: Rules
        url: rules/university-of-sheffield-rules.yml
      - type: Vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/university-of-sheffield-vocabulary.yml
      - type: JSONLD
        url: json-ld/university-of-sheffield-context.jsonld
  - aid: university-of-sheffield:wrro-oai
    name: White Rose Research Online OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      White Rose Research Online (WRRO) is the shared open-access research
      repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, running on
      EPrints. It exposes an OAI-PMH interface for harvesting metadata of
      University of Sheffield research outputs including articles, chapters and
      conference papers.
    humanURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Open Access, Research Outputs ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/information.html
      - type: Portal
        url: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/
  - aid: university-of-sheffield:wreo-oai
    name: White Rose eTheses Online OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      White Rose eTheses Online (WREO) is the shared electronic theses
      repository for the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, running on
      EPrints. It exposes an OAI-PMH interface for harvesting University of
      Sheffield thesis metadata.
    humanURL: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, EPrints, Theses, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
      - type: Portal
        url: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/SheffieldUni
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/rcgsheffield
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sheffield/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/sheffielduni
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-sheffield-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-sheffield-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-sheffield-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]