Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University Organization API

The organization API from Pennsylvania State University — 2 operation(s) for organization.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 2

GET /v1/organizations All Organizations #
GET /v1/organizations/{id}/publications Retrieve an organization's publications #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/api_docs
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/authentication/pennsylvania-state-university-authentication.yml
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Documentation
https://docs.scholarsphere.psu.edu/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/openapi/pennsylvania-state-university-organization-api-openapi.yml

SDKs

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SDK
https://github.com/psu-libraries/scholarsphere-client

Other Resources

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Signup
https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/
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GitHub
https://github.com/psu-libraries/researcher-metadata
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x-examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/examples/pennsylvania-state-university-rmd-unauthenticated-example.json
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Errors
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/errors/pennsylvania-state-university-problem-types.yml
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TermsOfService
https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/about
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GitHub
https://github.com/psu-libraries/scholarsphere
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x-examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/examples/pennsylvania-state-university-scholarsphere-unauthenticated-example.json

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OpenAPI Specification

pennsylvania-state-university-organization-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Researcher Metadata Database Organization API
  description: An API that serves as the authority on faculty and research metadata at Penn State University in the swagger-2.0 specification.
  version: v1
tags:
- name: Organization
paths:
  /v1/organizations:
    get:
      summary: All Organizations
      description: Returns all visible organizations to which the given API token has access.
      operationId: findOrganizations
      tags:
      - Organization
      security:
      - api_key: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: organization response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      properties:
                        id:
                          type: string
                          example: '123'
                          description: The ID of the object
                        type:
                          type: string
                          example: organization
                          description: The type of object
                        attributes:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - name
                          properties:
                            name:
                              type: string
                              example: College of Engineering
                              description: The name of the organization
                      type: object
                      required:
                      - id
                      - type
                      - attributes
                required:
                - data
        '401':
          description: unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorModelV1'
  /v1/organizations/{id}/publications:
    parameters:
    - name: id
      in: path
      description: The ID of an organization
      required: true
      schema:
        type: integer
    - name: offset
      in: query
      description: The number of items to skip before starting to collect the result set
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int32
    - name: limit
      in: query
      description: The numbers of items to return
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int32
    get:
      summary: Retrieve an organization's publications
      description: Returns publications that were authored by users while they were members of the organization
      operationId: findOrganizationPublications
      tags:
      - Organization
      security:
      - api_key: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: user publication response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/PublicationV1'
        '401':
          description: unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorModelV1'
        '404':
          description: not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorModelV1'
components:
  schemas:
    ErrorModelV1:
      type: object
      required:
      - code
      - message
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
        code:
          type: integer
          format: int32
    PublicationV1:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      - type
      - attributes
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: '123'
          description: The ID of the object
        type:
          type: string
          example: publication
          description: The type of the object
        attributes:
          type: object
          required:
          - title
          - publication_type
          - contributors
          - tags
          - pure_ids
          - activity_insight_ids
          properties:
            title:
              type: string
              example: A Scholarly Research Article
              description: The title of the publication
            secondary_title:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: A Comparative Analysis
              description: The sub-title of the publication
            journal_title:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: An Academic Journal
              description: The title of the journal in which the publication was published
            publication_type:
              type: string
              example: Academic Journal Article
              description: The type of the publication
            publisher:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: A Publishing Company
              description: The publisher of the publication
            status:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: Published
              description: The status of the publication
            volume:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: '30'
              description: The volume of the journal in which the publication was published
            issue:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: '12'
              description: The issue of the journal in which the publication was published
            edition:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: '6'
              description: The edition of the journal in which the publication was published
            page_range:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: 110-123
              description: The range of page numbers on which the publication content appears in the journal
            authors_et_al:
              type:
              - boolean
              - 'null'
              example: true
              description: Whether or not the publication has additional, unlisted authors
            abstract:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: A summary of the research
              description: A brief summary of the content of the publication
            doi:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: https://doi.org/example
              description: The Digital Object Identifier URL for the publication
            preferred_open_access_url:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: https://example.org/articles/article-123.pdf
              description: A URL for an open access copy of the publication
            published_on:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: '2010-12-05'
              description: The date on which the publication was published
            citation_count:
              type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
              example: 50
              description: The number of times that the publication has been cited in other works
            supplementary_url:
              type:
              - string
              - 'null'
              example: https://blog.com/post
              description: A URL for supplementary information or a secondary location of the publication
            contributors:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  first_name:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                    example: Anne
                    description: The first name of a person who contributed to the publication
                  middle_name:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                    example: Example
                    description: The middle name of a person who contributed to the publication
                  last_name:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                    example: Contributor
                    description: The last name of a person who contributed to the publication
                  psu_user_id:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                    example: abc1234
                    description: The Penn State user ID of a person who contributed to the publication if they have one
            tags:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                required:
                - name
                properties:
                  name:
                    type: string
                    example: A Topic
                    description: The name of a tag
                  rank:
                    type:
                    - number
                    - 'null'
                    example: 1.25
                    description: The ranking of the tag
            pure_ids:
              type: array
              description: Unique identifiers for corresponding records in the Pure database that represent the publication
              items:
                type: string
                example: abc-def-123-456
            activity_insight_ids:
              type: array
              description: Unique identifiers for corresponding records in the Activity Insight database that represent the publication
              items:
                type: string
                example: '1234567890'
            profile_preferences:
              type: array
              description: An array of settings for each user who is an author of the publication indicating how they prefer to have the publication displayed in a profile
              items:
                type: object
                required:
                - user_id
                - webaccess_id
                - visible_in_profile
                - position_in_profile
                properties:
                  user_id:
                    type: number
                    example: 123
                    description: The ID of the user to which this set of preferences belongs
                  webaccess_id:
                    type: string
                    example: abc123
                    description: The WebAccess ID of the user to which this set of preferences belongs
                  visible_in_profile:
                    type: boolean
                    example: true
                    description: The user's preference for whether or not this publication should be displayed in their profile
                  position_in_profile:
                    type:
                    - number
                    - 'null'
                    example: 8
                    description: The user's preference for what position this publication should occupy in a list of their publications in their profile
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      type: apiKey
      name: X-API-Key
      in: header