# American University of Beirut

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/aub/  
**Website:** https://www.aub.edu.lb/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 22.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **AUB ScholarWorks DSpace REST API** — Public RESTful (HAL) API for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository, running on DSpace 9.1. Exposes communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/search, and met...
- **AUB ScholarWorks OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository (DSpace 9.1). Supports the standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRec...
- **AUB Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)** — 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 t...

## Security (1)

- **Aub Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Aub Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Lebanon, Middle East, Research, Libraries, Open Access

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/aub/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.