National Tsing Hua University

NTHU Library Discovery (Primo VE tenant)

NTHU Library's discovery service on Ex Libris Primo VE. Notable for what it reveals rather than what it offers: its sign-in link declares authenticationProfile=NTHU_SAML and auth=SAML, which is the only public evidence that NTHU operates its own SAML identity provider. The Primo public PNX search API was probed and returned HTTP 400 for an unauthenticated caller, and the corresponding OAI endpoint returns the same 403 as the research portal.

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Documentation
https://www.lib.nthu.edu.tw/

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Website
https://nthu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=886UST_NTHU
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nthu/refs/heads/main/conformance/nthu-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: nthu:nthu-library-discovery
name: NTHU Library Discovery (Primo VE tenant)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-detail: Hosted on nthu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com — an Ex Libris host, not an NTHU one — under
  the view identifier 886UST_NTHU, shared through the University System of Taiwan consortium. The collection
  is NTHU's; the discovery layer and its APIs are Ex Libris's, and are not saved here.
description: 'NTHU Library''s discovery service on Ex Libris Primo VE. Notable for what it reveals rather
  than what it offers: its sign-in link declares authenticationProfile=NTHU_SAML and auth=SAML, which
  is the only public evidence that NTHU operates its own SAML identity provider. The Primo public PNX
  search API was probed and returned HTTP 400 for an unauthenticated caller, and the corresponding OAI
  endpoint returns the same 403 as the research portal.'
humanURL: https://nthu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=886UST_NTHU
baseURL: https://nthu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- SAML
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://nthu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=886UST_NTHU
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.lib.nthu.edu.tw/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nthu-conformance.yml