--- aid: university-of-manchester name: University of Manchester description: >- The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, ranked #31 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is research-led rather than a centrally branded developer portal: the institution runs an Elsevier Pure CRIS that exposes a live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata feed and a documented Pure REST API, surfaces its outputs through the public Research Explorer portal, federates identity via Shibboleth/SAML in the UK Access Management Federation, publishes open research data through Figshare, and maintains a small public GitHub organization. No unified, self-service developer portal with general-purpose open data or course/timetable APIs was found to be 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-manchester/refs/heads/main/apis.yml tags: - Education - Higher Education - University - Research - Open Data - United Kingdom created: '2026-06-03' modified: '2026-06-03' specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: - aid: university-of-manchester:pure-oai-pmh name: Research Explorer OAI-PMH (Pure) description: >- Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the University of Manchester's Pure-based institutional repository / Current Research Information System (CRIS). The Identify response confirms a "Pure OAI Repository" running protocol version 2.0, exposing research output metadata for harvesting via standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListMetadataFormats, etc.). humanURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/ baseURL: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/oai tags: [ Research, OAI-PMH, Repository, Metadata, Open Access ] properties: - type: Documentation url: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/ - aid: university-of-manchester:pure-rest name: Pure CRIS REST API description: >- The University of Manchester runs Elsevier Pure, which provides a documented REST (CRUD) API for extracting from and writing data into the research information system. A Material-for-MkDocs documentation site is served from the institution's Pure host, covering API keys, authorization, users/roles and file management, and references an OpenAPI 3 contract. Access requires a Pure-issued API key, so it is institution-gated rather than openly self-service. humanURL: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/ tags: [ Research, CRIS, REST, OpenAPI, Authenticated ] properties: - type: Documentation url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/ - type: Authentication url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/ - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/university-of-manchester-pure-rest.yaml - type: x-json-schema url: json-schema/university-of-manchester-researchoutput-schema.json - type: x-json-structure url: json-structure/university-of-manchester-researchoutput-structure.json - type: x-example url: examples/university-of-manchester-research-outputs-list-example.json - type: x-rules url: rules/university-of-manchester-rules.yml - type: x-vocabulary url: vocabulary/university-of-manchester-vocabulary.yml - type: x-json-ld url: json-ld/university-of-manchester-context.jsonld - aid: university-of-manchester:research-explorer name: Research Explorer Portal description: >- Public Pure portal exposing the University of Manchester's researcher profiles, research outputs, projects, research units, impacts and theses. It is a discovery front end over the Pure CRIS rather than a documented programmatic API, but it is the canonical public surface of the institution's research data. humanURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/ baseURL: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/ tags: [ Research, Discovery, Portal, Pure ] properties: - type: Documentation url: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/ - aid: university-of-manchester:figshare name: Research Data Repository (Figshare) description: >- The University of Manchester uses Figshare as its institutional research data repository for depositing and openly publishing research datasets. Figshare exposes a public, documented REST API; Manchester's deposits are discoverable through it, though the University does not operate the API surface itself. humanURL: https://www.openresearch.manchester.ac.uk/research-services/research-data-management/ baseURL: https://api.figshare.com/v2 tags: [ Research Data, Repository, Figshare, REST, Open Data ] properties: - type: Documentation url: https://docs.figshare.com/ - aid: university-of-manchester:shibboleth-sso name: Shibboleth SAML Identity (SSO) description: >- The University of Manchester provides federated authentication via a Shibboleth SAML2 Identity Provider at shib.manchester.ac.uk, participating in the Jisc UK Access Management Federation. This is institutional SSO infrastructure for staff, students and federated e-resources rather than a public OAuth developer API. humanURL: https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/ tags: [ Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Authentication ] properties: - type: Documentation url: https://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/ common: - type: Website url: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/ - type: GitHub url: https://github.com/University-of-Manchester - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-university-of-manchester/ - type: DeveloperPortal url: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/api/ - type: Authentication url: https://shib.manchester.ac.uk/ - type: Plans url: plans/university-of-manchester-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/university-of-manchester-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/university-of-manchester-finops.yml - type: Review url: review.yml maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com