American University of Beirut

aid: aub
name: American University of Beirut
description: 'The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1866,
  and ranked #250 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. AUB''s public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered
  on its University Libraries: the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository runs on DSpace 9.1, which exposes a public RESTful
  API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint. Authentication across AUB web services is provided by a Shibboleth
  SAML 2.0 identity provider. AUB does not publish a centralized developer portal; most other institutional systems (SIS,
  service desk) are gated behind SSO and are not publicly documented APIs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aub/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Lebanon
- Middle East
- Research
- Libraries
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: aub:scholarworks-rest
  name: AUB ScholarWorks DSpace REST API
  description: Public RESTful (HAL) API for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository, running on DSpace 9.1. Exposes
    communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/search, and metadata over HTTP/JSON. The service root self-describes
    as repository "AUB ScholarWorks".
  humanURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/
  baseURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Libraries
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/AUB-Scholarworks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/REST+API
- aid: aub:scholarworks-oai
  name: AUB ScholarWorks OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository (DSpace 9.1). Supports
    the standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) and exposes scholarly output of the AUB community
    for harvesting by aggregators.
  humanURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/
  baseURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - Libraries
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/AUB-Scholarworks
- aid: aub:shibboleth-idp
  name: AUB Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
  description: AUB's institutional single sign-on is provided by a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. The SAML metadata
    is published at the entity endpoint and is used to federate access to AUB web services. This is an authentication/identity
    standard endpoint rather than a public data API.
  humanURL: https://servicedesk.aub.edu.lb/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=30424
  baseURL: https://idp.aub.edu.lb/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://servicedesk.aub.edu.lb/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=30424
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aub.edu.lb/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/AUB-CMPS
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/american-university-of-beirut
- type: Authentication
  url: https://idp.aub.edu.lb/idp/shibboleth
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aub-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aub-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aub-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com