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ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH

The only API surface Oxford actually documents. An OAI-PMH 2.0 data provider over the institutional open-access repository, serving ten metadata formats including DataCite kernel 4.6, OpenAIRE 4.0, three RIOXX profiles (one released under CC0), EThOS uketd_dc, and customised profiles for Oxford's own SOLO discovery layer, BASE and Unpaywall. Sixteen sets allow selective harvesting by type of work. Oxford publishes harvesting etiquette, an identifier migration rule for the 2018 platform change, an update schedule, a deletion policy and a Tuesday 07:00-09:00 UK maintenance window. Selective harvesting by publication date is explicitly not supported.

ORA — Oxford University Research Archive OAI-PMH is one of 10 APIs that University of Oxford publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Research Repository, Open Access, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2.

1 operations 1 paths 0 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2.0
Base URL
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/oai2
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

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.

OAI-PMH 1

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting verbs.

GET
/
Issue an OAI-PMH verb
oaiRequest 7 params → 200503

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

university-of-oxford-ora-oai-pmh-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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