Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University User API

The user API from Pennsylvania State University — 9 operation(s) for user.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 9

GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/organization_memberships Retrieve the user's organization memberships #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/news_feed_items Retrieve a user's news feed items #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/presentations Retrieve a user's presentations #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/grants Retrieve a user's grants #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/performances Retrieve a user's performances #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/etds Retrieve a user's student advising history #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/publications Retrieve a user's publications #
GET /v1/users/{webaccess_id}/profile Retrieve a user's profile #
POST /v1/users/publications Retrieve publications for a group of users #

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-user-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-user-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Researcher Metadata Database User 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:


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