# LSE Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/lse/identity-federation/  
**Provider:** London School of Economics and Political Science — https://apis.io/providers/lse/  
**Base URL:** https://gate.library.lse.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth  
**Documentation:** https://www.lse.ac.uk/

LSE Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation) is one of 7 APIs that [London School of Economics and Political Science](https://apis.io/providers/lse/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity, Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, and SSO. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs and API documentation.

LSE operates its own SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider for staff, students and library resource access, registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https://lse.ac.uk/idp with the scope lse.ac.uk. The IdP metadata is published as machine-readable XML and returned 200 on 2026-08-19, listing HTTP-Redirect, HTTP-POST and HTTP-POST-SimpleSign SSO bindings plus SAML1 and SAML2 SOAP artifact resolution on port 8443. This is the clearest institution-operated programmable surface LSE has — identity federation is institution-operated by definition. One published Location is malformed (gate.library.lse.ac.uk.lse.ac.uk, NXDOMAIN); a second LSE entity registered at idp.lse.ac.uk self-labels "Test IdP - DO NOT USE" and is not recorded here.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/authentication/lse-authentication.yml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/conformance/lse-domain-standards.yml
- **Documentation** — https://www.ukfederation.org.uk/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other London School of Economics and Political Science APIs (6)

- [LSE Moodle LTI 1.3 Platform](https://apis.io/apis/lse/moodle-lti-platform/)
- [LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/research-online-oai/)
- [LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/library-search/)
- [LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/digital-library/)
- [LSE Archives Catalogue (Epexio)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/archives-catalogue/)
- [LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)](https://apis.io/apis/lse/datacite-doi/)

## Tags

Identity, Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, SSO, UKAMF

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