---
aid: kings-college-london
name: King's College London
description: >-
  King's College London (KCL) is a public research university in London, United
  Kingdom, ranked #41 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most
  research universities, King's does not operate a centralized public developer
  portal; its machine-readable footprint is concentrated in research and library
  infrastructure. The King's Research Portal (Pure) exposes a live OAI-PMH
  metadata interface, and the King's research data repository is hosted on
  Figshare, which provides a public REST API and OAI-PMH endpoint. King's also
  runs an e-Research group with a large public GitHub organization.
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/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Open Data
  - OAI-PMH
  - Library
  - United Kingdom
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: kings-college-london:pure-oai
    name: King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the King's Research Portal,
      the front end of Pure, King's research information system and
      institutional repository. The interface returns a live OAI-PMH response
      (repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository") supporting standard verbs such as
      Identify, ListRecords and ListMetadataFormats over an OpenAIRE CERIF
      profile.
    humanURL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/explore/kings-research-portal
    baseURL: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/oai
    tags: [ Research, OAI-PMH, Repository, Metadata, Pure ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/explore/kings-research-portal
      - type: Website
        url: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/
  - aid: kings-college-london:figshare-repository
    name: King's College London Research Repository (Figshare)
    description: >-
      King's research data repository hosted on Figshare. Public access to the
      repository's records is available through the Figshare public REST API
      (api.figshare.com/v2) and a Figshare OAI-PMH endpoint, both of which
      return live responses. The KCL-branded repository front end is at
      kcl.figshare.com.
    humanURL: https://kcl.figshare.com/
    baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2
    tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Figshare, OAI-PMH, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.figshare.com/
      - type: Website
        url: https://kcl.figshare.com/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/kings-college-london-figshare-repository.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/kings-college-london-article-schema.json
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/kings-college-london-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/kings-college-london-rules.yml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/kcl-eresearch
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/king's-college-london/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/kings-college-london-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/kings-college-london-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/kings-college-london-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/kings-college-london-context.jsonld
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com