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name: University of Reading
description: University of Reading public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-reading/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Verified live: two EPrints-based OAI-PMH metadata endpoints (CentAUR
      institutional repository and the Research Data Archive), both returning HTTP
      200, with the CentAUR Identify response confirming repositoryName "CentAUR"
      and OAI-PMH protocol version 2.0. The official website and LinkedIn school
      page resolve. No public self-service developer portal, REST API catalog,
      SignUp flow, or official GitHub organization could be found (candidate GitHub
      org names returned 404). Administrative, identity (Shibboleth/SAML), and
      student-information interfaces appear gated behind institutional affiliation
      and were not publicly documented. No endpoints were fabricated; only
      confirmed URLs are listed.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: Live OAI-PMH Identify; repositoryName "CentAUR", protocolVersion 2.0.
      - url: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: CentAUR institutional repository home (EPrints).
      - url: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: Live OAI-PMH Identify for the Research Data Archive (EPrints).
      - url: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: University of Reading Research Data Archive home.
      - url: https://www.reading.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: Official university website.
      - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/uniofreading
        status: 404
        note: Candidate GitHub org not found; no official org confirmed.