Boston University

aid: boston
name: Boston University
description: 'Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, chartered in 1869, ranked #88 in
  the QS World University Rankings 2025. It serves over 34,000 students across three campuses with 300+ programs of study.
  Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely gated: the most clearly public, machine-readable interface is the
  OpenBU institutional repository (DSpace) OAI-PMH endpoint. Boston University also references an internal API portal (webapi.bu.edu)
  and offers gated LLM API key access via Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock through IS&T, but those are not publicly reachable
  or documented without authorization.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Open Data
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: boston:openbu-oai
  name: OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API
  description: OpenBU is Boston University Libraries' open-access institutional repository, built on DSpace. It exposes a
    publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting metadata (theses, dissertations, journal articles, reports and
    more). The Identify verb resolves live with repository name "OpenBU" and supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
    ListSets, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers).
  humanURL: https://open.bu.edu/
  baseURL: https://open.bu.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - Open Data
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.bu.edu/
- aid: boston:ai-api-access
  name: AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)
  description: Boston University IS&T provides gated access to Large Language Model API keys for academic and research use,
    brokering frontier models via Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock (including Anthropic models). Access is restricted
    to faculty, researchers, staff and departments, requires financial-administrator approval and an AI API Key Request Form,
    and IS&T supplies provisioning details and documentation only after approval. No public base URL or open documentation
    is available.
  humanURL: https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/collaboration/conversational-ai/ai-api-access/
  tags:
  - AI
  - LLM
  - Gated
  - Azure OpenAI
  - Amazon Bedrock
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/collaboration/conversational-ai/ai-api-access/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bu.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/bu-ist
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/boston-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/boston-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/boston-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/boston-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com