Note: From March 2016 Manchester eScholar will be replaced with a new Research Information System called Pure. Once Pure goes live, programmatic access to data related to research outputs via the Manchester eScholar API will be permanently unavailable. To discuss existing integrations with the API please contact us via email at escholar@manchester.ac.uk.
Manchester eScholar Application Program Interfaces (API's)
jQuery widget
The jQuery widget is a plugin that leverages the eScholar search Application Programming Interface (API) enabling developers to easily embed eScholar search into webpages. It is built on jQuery; styling is kept to a minimum so as to facilitate maximum flexibility to the developer. It searches the eScholar public repository, providing instant, access to all eScholar publicly available content. The results can be configured, filtered, styled to suit the desires of the developer.
- Query builder is an interactive tool allowing the easy creation of queries without the need to write code.
- Documentation of the query builder can be had by reading the documentation.
- Examples of queries can be had by viewing the examples.
- Download the escholar.js uncompressed source code (.zip).
- Download the escholar.min.js minified source code (.zip).
- Download the searchDemo.js uncompressed source code (.zip).
- Download the searchDemo.xhtml source code (.zip).
- Learn more about jQuery (opens in new window).
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is an infrastructure for exposing content to external harvesters. A harvester is a client application that issues OAI-PMH requests and is operated by a service provider as a means of collecting metadata from repositories. These service providers sometimes provide access to and represent harvested content in richer, more user-targeted formats. All publicly available eScholar content is OAI-PMH compliant. Whereas access to all publicly available eScholar content is provided free of cost, some service providers may charge a fee for accessing harvested content.
- Manchester eScholar OAI-PMH documentation
- Learn more about OAI-PMH (opens in new window)
Bulk download
Content submitted to Manchester eScholar may contain supporting full text and/or supplementary files. Where these are available, individuals may download these on a file-by-file basis. Service providers on the other hand, may require to download a large number of these files in a semi-automated fashion. To support this, Manchester eScholar provides a bulk download service.