ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface
Live, open OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting for ePrints Soton, the University's institutional research repository. Verified 2026-08-30: Identify returned repositoryName 'ePrints Soton', repositoryIdentifier eprints.soton.ac.uk, adminEmail eprints@soton.ac.uk, earliestDatestamp 2021-12-11T15:30:50Z, deletedRecord 'persistent' and granularity to the second; ListMetadataFormats offered eight prefixes including rioxx (RIOXX v2.0, the UK research-output profile), uketd_dc, mets, didl and rdf; ListSets and GetRecord both returned real data. Records carry ORCID iDs and institution-minted DataCite DOIs under the University's own 10.5258 prefix. The repository's metadataPolicy grants free re-use of metadata in any medium for not-for-profit purposes with attribution.Correction to the previous profile: this endpoint was recorded as returning HTTP 403 and presumed to be filtering automated requests. That was a probe artifact. The host runs Anubis 1.24.0, which challenges browser-like User-Agent strings with 401 and denies crawler agents such as Googlebot with 403, but serves plain and harvester User-Agents normally with 200. The endpoint is live and fully functional.
ePrints Soton OAI-PMH Interface is one of 6 APIs that University of Southampton publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Repository, Research, Metadata, and EPrints. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, version 2.0.
Schemas 3
The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Identify (7 properties), OAIPMHResponse (4 properties), OAIError (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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