# Boston University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/boston/  
**Website:** https://www.bu.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 16.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 (2)

- **OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API** — 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 (thes...
- **AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)** — 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 Bedr...

## Security (1)

- **Boston Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Boston Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Library, Open Data, United States

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