# University of Birmingham Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/identity-provider/  
**Provider:** University of Birmingham — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-birmingham/  
**Base URL:** https://idp2.bham.ac.uk/idp  
**Documentation:** https://idp2.bham.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth

University of Birmingham Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth) is one of 9 APIs that [University of Birmingham](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-birmingham/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, and UK Access Management Federation.

The University's own Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider. The entity descriptor is served directly by IT Services and carries their maintenance history in XML comments; it declares SingleSignOnService endpoints for HTTP-POST, HTTP-Redirect, POST-SimpleSign and the SAML 1.x Shibboleth AuthnRequest profile, SingleLogoutService and an AttributeService over SOAP. The entityID https://idp.bham.ac.uk/shibboleth is registered in the UK Access Management Federation aggregate with OrganizationName "University of Birmingham" and shibmd:Scope bham.ac.uk. This is federated institutional single sign-on, not a self-serve developer credential — there is no way for an unaffiliated caller to obtain access through it.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **IdentityFederation** — https://idp2.bham.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth

## Other University of Birmingham APIs (8)

- [UBIRA eData (EPrints OAI-PMH + REST)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/edata/)
- [UBIRA eTheses (EPrints OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/etheses/)
- [ePapers Repository (EPrints OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/epapers/)
- [BEAR GitLab (self-hosted, /api/v4)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/gitlab/)
- [English Constructicon API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/english-constructicon/)
- [Elsevier Pure research portal (Birmingham tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/pure-research-portal/)
- [FindIt@Bham library discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/findit-primo/)
- [Canvas virtual learning environment (Instructure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/canvas-vle/)

## Tags

Identity Federation, SAML, Shibboleth, Single Sign-On, UK Access Management Federation

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