University of Manchester
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.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles University of Manchester the way a machine reads it — 61 machine-readable artifacts across 40 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — University of Manchester scores 44.9/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile University of Manchester
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for University of Manchester. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 40
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Research Explorer OAI-PMH (Pure)
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 r...
Research Explorer Portal
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 ...
Research Data Repository (Figshare)
The University of Manchester uses Figshare as its institutional research data repository for depositing and openly publishing research datasets. Figshare exposes a public, docum...
Shibboleth SAML Identity (SSO)
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 ...
University of Manchester activity API
The activity API from University of Manchester — 39 operation(s) for activity.
University of Manchester application API
The application API from University of Manchester — 36 operation(s) for application.
University of Manchester authorCollaboration API
The authorCollaboration API from University of Manchester — 9 operation(s) for authorcollaboration.
University of Manchester award API
The award API from University of Manchester — 37 operation(s) for award.
University of Manchester classificationScheme API
The classificationScheme API from University of Manchester — 7 operation(s) for classificationscheme.
University of Manchester concept API
The concept API from University of Manchester — 4 operation(s) for concept.
University of Manchester contract API
The contract API from University of Manchester — 26 operation(s) for contract.
University of Manchester course API
The course API from University of Manchester — 27 operation(s) for course.
University of Manchester dataSet API
The dataSet API from University of Manchester — 30 operation(s) for dataset.
University of Manchester education API
The education API from University of Manchester — 14 operation(s) for education.
University of Manchester equipment API
The equipment API from University of Manchester — 28 operation(s) for equipment.
University of Manchester ethicalReview API
The ethicalReview API from University of Manchester — 22 operation(s) for ethicalreview.
University of Manchester event API
The event API from University of Manchester — 22 operation(s) for event.
University of Manchester externalOrganization API
The externalOrganization API from University of Manchester — 29 operation(s) for externalorganization.
University of Manchester externalPerson API
The externalPerson API from University of Manchester — 22 operation(s) for externalperson.
University of Manchester fingerprint API
The fingerprint API from University of Manchester — 3 operation(s) for fingerprint.
University of Manchester fundingOpportunity API
The fundingOpportunity API from University of Manchester — 21 operation(s) for fundingopportunity.
University of Manchester impact API
The impact API from University of Manchester — 31 operation(s) for impact.
University of Manchester journal API
The journal API from University of Manchester — 22 operation(s) for journal.
University of Manchester keywordGroupConfiguration API
The keywordGroupConfiguration API from University of Manchester — 7 operation(s) for keywordgroupconfiguration.
University of Manchester milestone API
The milestone API from University of Manchester — 24 operation(s) for milestone.
University of Manchester organization API
The organization API from University of Manchester — 34 operation(s) for organization.
University of Manchester person API
The person API from University of Manchester — 58 operation(s) for person.
University of Manchester personExpertise API
The personExpertise API from University of Manchester — 7 operation(s) for personexpertise.
University of Manchester pressMedia API
The pressMedia API from University of Manchester — 24 operation(s) for pressmedia.
University of Manchester prize API
The prize API from University of Manchester — 29 operation(s) for prize.
University of Manchester project API
The project API from University of Manchester — 33 operation(s) for project.
University of Manchester publisher API
The publisher API from University of Manchester — 18 operation(s) for publisher.
University of Manchester researchOutput API
The researchOutput API from University of Manchester — 67 operation(s) for researchoutput.
University of Manchester role API
The role API from University of Manchester — 2 operation(s) for role.
University of Manchester semester API
The semester API from University of Manchester — 8 operation(s) for semester.
University of Manchester specialization API
The specialization API from University of Manchester — 8 operation(s) for specialization.
University of Manchester studentProject API
The studentProject API from University of Manchester — 26 operation(s) for studentproject.
University of Manchester studentThesis API
The studentThesis API from University of Manchester — 26 operation(s) for studentthesis.
University of Manchester thesaurus API
The thesaurus API from University of Manchester — 5 operation(s) for thesaurus.
University of Manchester user API
The user API from University of Manchester — 7 operation(s) for user.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
University Of Manchester Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
University of Manchester API Rules
SPECTRALUniversity of Manchester API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
JSON Structure 4
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
University Of Manchester Activity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Manchester Person Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Manchester Project Structure
JSON STRUCTUREUniversity Of Manchester Researchoutput Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 4
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for University of Manchester — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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