diff --git a/dspace-api/pom.xml b/dspace-api/pom.xml
index 24a6f9536a..9e77119f24 100644
--- a/dspace-api/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-api/pom.xml
@@ -698,6 +698,12 @@
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- To extract metadata from Json response, e.g. SimpleJsonPathMetadataContributor -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
+			<artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
+			<version>${json-path.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
             <artifactId>guava</artifactId>