Enlighten EPrints REST API
An anonymous read interface over the Enlighten repositories that the University of Glasgow does not document or advertise anywhere: a dataset index at /rest/, an object index per dataset, a full EPrints 2.0 XML record at /rest/eprint/{id}.xml, a field index per record, and a plain text view of any single field. The subject taxonomy is public; the user dataset lists identifiers only and each user record returns 401. There is no published OpenAPI — the description carried here was derived by API Evangelist from live probes on 2026-08-30 and is marked as such.
Enlighten EPrints REST API is one of 8 APIs that University of Glasgow publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Repository, EPrints, Research Outputs, Metadata, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, authentication docs, and API documentation.
This API exposes 8 operations across 8 paths. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 3.4.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/rest, https://theses.gla.ac.uk/rest, https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/rest.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Enlighten EPrints REST API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
basicAuth— EPrints HTTP Basic authentication, required for user records and for any write operation. Read access to eprint, subject and the dataset indexes needs no crede…
Paths & Operations 8
Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 8 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Dataset and object traversal over the EPrints repository.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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