Case Western Reserve University

aid: case-western-reserve-university
name: Case Western Reserve University
x-type: university
x-category: Private Research University
description: 'Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, founded 1826 and
  a member of the Association of American Universities. It operates no public developer portal and no public API program:
  api.case.edu, developer.case.edu and developers.case.edu do not resolve, case.edu/llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt
  both return 404, and its GitHub organization (github.com/cwru) holds six repositories of which four are archived web-template
  tooling last touched in 2016-17. What CWRU does operate, and what this profile records, is a small set of genuinely institution-run
  identity and harvesting surfaces — a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider on login.case.edu registered in InCommon (urn:mace:incommon:case.edu,
  scoped to case.edu and eight school subdomains), an Apereo CAS single sign-on service on the same host, and an open OAI-PMH
  2.0 provider for Scholarly Commons at commons.case.edu — alongside tenancies it holds on other people''s platforms (bepress
  Digital Commons, Ex Libris Primo through the OhioLINK consortium, Tableau Server, Leepfrog CourseLeaf, Microsoft Entra ID)
  and its registration in the Crossref and ROR registries. Every entry below carries an x-operator saying who actually runs
  the thing described. No vendor contract is saved under CWRU''s name.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Private Research University
- Association of American Universities
- Research
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- SAML
- OAI-PMH
- Research Repository
- Library
- Course Catalog
- Crossref
- Cleveland
- Ohio
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:shibboleth-idp
  name: CWRU Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'CWRU''s own Shibboleth Identity Provider, entityID urn:mace:incommon:case.edu. Every SingleSignOnService binding
    in the production descriptor is on CWRU''s own registrable domain — https://login.case.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO,
    .../POST/SSO and .../POST-SimpleSign/SSO — and the descriptor asserts nine shibmd:Scope values, all case.edu subdomains
    (case.edu, artsci, dental, engineering, law, management, med, nursing, sass). The metadata is distributed unauthenticated
    through the InCommon per-entity metadata service (MDQ), registrationAuthority https://incommon.org, validUntil 2026-09-15.
    canvas.case.edu was observed redirecting into this IdP. This is the strongest institution-operated, machine-readable contract
    CWRU publishes. Caveat worth knowing: CWRU''s own metadata URL https://login.case.edu/idp/shibboleth answers 200 but serves
    a stale DEV descriptor (entityID https://login-dev.case.edu/idp, "Still using old keypairs - fine for dev for now"), so
    the MDQ copy is the authoritative one.'
  humanURL: https://case.edu/utech/departments/information-security
  baseURL: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Acase.edu
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - InCommon
  - eduGAIN
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/case-western-reserve-university-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/case-western-reserve-university-domain-standards.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://login.case.edu/
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Acase.edu
      status: 200
      content_type: application/samlmetadata+xml
      bytes: 9543
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:apereo-cas
  name: CWRU Apereo CAS single sign-on (login.case.edu)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'CWRU runs an Apereo CAS deployment at login.case.edu as its campus single sign-on service. The CAS 3.0 protocol
    validation endpoint /cas/p3/serviceValidate answers unauthenticated with a well-formed cas:serviceResponse in the http://www.yale.edu/tp/cas
    namespace. It is an institution-operated authentication service on the institution''s own domain, not a data API: a valid
    service ticket is required for any substantive response, and there is no public client registration. The CAS OIDC module
    is deployed but refuses unauthenticated discovery (/cas/oidc/.well-known/openid-configuration returns 401).'
  humanURL: https://login.case.edu/cas/login
  baseURL: https://login.case.edu/cas/
  tags:
  - Single Sign-On
  - CAS
  - Apereo
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/case-western-reserve-university-authentication.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://login.case.edu/cas/login
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://login.case.edu/cas/p3/serviceValidate
      status: 200
      content_type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:scholarly-commons-oai-pmh
  name: Scholarly Commons @ CWRU — OAI-PMH 2.0 provider
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'An open OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata provider on CWRU''s own host. Identify reports repositoryName "Scholarly Commons
    @ Case Western Reserve University", repositoryIdentifier commons.case.edu, earliestDatestamp 2000-01-19, sample identifier
    oai:commons.case.edu:bejte-1005. ListMetadataFormats and ListSets both return 200, and ListSets enumerates CWRU-specific
    collections (publication:begun, publication:baker-nord-works, publication:beguncenter-reports and more). Recorded as `tenant`
    rather than `institution`: the host, the repository name, the collections and the content are CWRU''s, but the software
    is bepress Digital Commons and the Identify adminEmail is dc-support@elsevier.com. Elsevier''s generic Digital Commons
    contract is deliberately NOT saved under CWRU''s slug — the harvestable OAI-PMH surface is the institutional fact, and
    it is real.'
  humanURL: https://commons.case.edu/
  baseURL: https://commons.case.edu/do/oai/
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Digital Commons
  - Metadata Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://commons.case.edu/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/case-western-reserve-university-domain-standards.yml
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://commons.case.edu/do/oai/?verb=Identify
      status: 200
      content_type: text/xml
    vendor_signal: Identify adminEmail dc-support@elsevier.com; bepress Digital Commons /do/oai/ path
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:entra-id-tenant
  name: CWRU Microsoft Entra ID tenant (OIDC + SAML metadata)
  x-operator: federation
  description: 'CWRU''s Microsoft Entra ID tenant, dc1c97ee-7a12-4624-9a01-9ad4f05d1311, resolved from the case.edu domain
    hint. OpenID Connect discovery answers unauthenticated at https://login.microsoftonline.com/case.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration,
    and the WS-Federation/SAML metadata document at the tenant GUID returns 200 / 28,441 bytes. Recorded as `federation` rather
    than discarded as a vendor host: the host and the protocol implementation are Microsoft''s, the tenant and the identities
    inside it are CWRU''s. There is no public client registration and no third-party developer access.'
  humanURL: https://case.edu/utech/
  baseURL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/case.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - OpenID Connect
  - SAML
  - Entra ID
  properties:
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/case.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/case-western-reserve-university-authentication.yml
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/case.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
      status: 200
      bytes: 1964
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:crossref-member
  name: Crossref member registration — Case Western Reserve University (member 7530)
  x-operator: registry
  description: 'CWRU is a registered Crossref member, id 7530, primary-name "Case Western Reserve University", holding six
    DOI prefixes (10.18062, 10.18581, 10.18582, 10.18695, 10.28953, 10.20411) and 475 deposited DOIs (260 current, 215 backfile).
    This is a membership fact about the institution and is recorded per the registry rule. Crossref''s own API contract belongs
    to Crossref and is not saved here. Recorded alongside a deliberate negative: CWRU has no DataCite membership — api.datacite.org
    returns meta.total 0 for both providers?query=case+western and clients?query=case.edu.'
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/members/7530
  tags:
  - Crossref
  - DOI
  - Scholarly Publishing
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/case-western-reserve-university-domain-standards.yml
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://api.crossref.org/members/7530
      status: 200
      content_type: application/json
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:ror-record
  name: ROR organization record — Case Western Reserve University (051fd9666)
  x-operator: registry
  description: CWRU's Research Organization Registry record, https://ror.org/051fd9666, established 1826, domain case.edu,
    located in Cleveland, Ohio, US. External identifiers cross-walk to Crossref Funder IDs 100008136 / 100008564 / 100008565,
    GRID grid.67105.35, ISNI 0000 0001 2164 3847 and Wikidata Q1047060. A registration fact about the institution; ROR's own
    contract is ROR's.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/051fd9666
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/051fd9666
  tags:
  - ROR
  - Persistent Identifiers
  - Registry
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://ror.org/051fd9666
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/051fd9666
      status: 200
      content_type: application/json
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:tableau-server
  name: CWRU Tableau Server deployment (data.case.edu)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'CWRU''s institutional analytics platform, hosted on its own domain at data.case.edu. The unauthenticated Tableau
    REST serverInfo endpoint reports productVersion 2025.1.5 (build 20251.25.0724.1105), prepConductorVersion 2025.1.0 and
    restApiVersion 3.25. Everything else requires a CWRU sign-in — the root URL returns only a Tableau vizportal SPA shell.
    Recorded as `tenant`, not `institution`: the host and the dashboards are CWRU''s, the REST contract is Tableau''s, and
    Tableau''s generic specification is not saved here. This is where CWRU''s institutional data actually lives, which is
    why it is worth recording even though nothing behind it is publicly callable.'
  humanURL: https://data.case.edu/
  baseURL: https://data.case.edu/api/3.25/serverinfo
  tags:
  - Business Intelligence
  - Analytics
  - Tableau
  - Institutional Data
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://data.case.edu/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/case-western-reserve-university-authentication.yml
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://data.case.edu/api/3.19/serverinfo
      status: 200
      content_type: text/xml
    vendor_signal: tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api"; Tableau Server 2025.1.5
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:primo-discovery-view
  name: CWRU library discovery — Ex Libris Primo view 01OHIOLINK_CWRU:CWRUC
  x-operator: tenant
  description: CWRU's library discovery layer is an Ex Libris Primo view operated through the OhioLINK consortium. digital.case.edu
    — a CWRU-owned hostname — redirects to ohiolink-cwru.primo.exlibrisgroup.com with the CWRU-specific view identifier 01OHIOLINK_CWRU:CWRUC
    and collection 81376980700008508. The named view is a real CWRU scope on a shared vendor platform, so the tenancy is recorded;
    the Ex Libris Primo API contract is Ex Libris's and is not saved here. No public, keyless Primo search API is exposed.
  humanURL: https://researchguides.case.edu/discovery
  baseURL: https://ohiolink-cwru.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01OHIOLINK_CWRU:CWRUC
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris Primo
  - OhioLINK
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://researchguides.case.edu/discovery
  - type: Website
    url: https://ohiolink-cwru.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01OHIOLINK_CWRU:CWRUC
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://digital.case.edu/
      status: 200
      redirected_to: https://ohiolink-cwru.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01OHIOLINK_CWRU:CWRUC&collectionId=81376980700008508&lang=en
    method: probed
- aid: case-western-reserve-university:courseleaf-bulletin
  name: CWRU General Bulletin — Leepfrog CourseLeaf catalog (bulletin.case.edu)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: The 2026-27 General Bulletin, CWRU's authoritative course catalog, runs on Leepfrog CourseLeaf at bulletin.case.edu
    — a CWRU host, a vendor product. It publishes a sitemap (https://bulletin.case.edu/sitemap.xml, 200, text/xml, 113,675
    bytes) covering the catalog. CourseLeaf's internal AJAX course endpoint /ribbit/index.cgi?page=getcourse.rjs&code=<CODE>
    does return machine-readable XML course data, but bulletin.case.edu/robots.txt explicitly Disallows /ribbit/, so it is
    recorded here as observed and deliberately NOT credited as a published API surface. CWRU exposes no documented, supported
    course or timetable API; the registrar's data is published as HTML reports at case.edu/registrar/general/statistics-and-data
    and the student system is PeopleSoft at sis.case.edu (/psp/P92SCWR), behind sign-on.
  humanURL: https://case.edu/registrar/registration-classes/course-catalog-general-bulletin
  baseURL: https://bulletin.case.edu/
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Registrar
  - CourseLeaf
  - Academic Programs
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://bulletin.case.edu/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://case.edu/registrar/registration-classes/course-catalog-general-bulletin
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-09-01'
    probe:
      url: https://bulletin.case.edu/sitemap.xml
      status: 200
      content_type: text/xml
    robots_disallow: /ribbit/
    method: probed
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'CWRU publishes no public API program and no developer portal, and that absence was probed rather than assumed:
    api.case.edu, developer.case.edu, developers.case.edu, classes.case.edu, its.case.edu, maps.case.edu and status.case.edu
    all fail to resolve (curl exit 0/000), and case.edu/llms.txt and case.edu/.well-known/security.txt both return 404. Nothing
    was blocked to us except LinkedIn (HTTP 999, its standard bot challenge, not a dead page) — every other surface was read
    directly. What IS here was found and verified: the InCommon-registered Shibboleth IdP scoped to case.edu and eight school
    subdomains, an Apereo CAS SSO service on the same host, an open OAI-PMH 2.0 provider for Scholarly Commons, a Microsoft
    Entra ID tenant, a Crossref membership with six prefixes and 475 DOIs, and a ROR record. Four vendor platforms carry CWRU
    tenancies (bepress Digital Commons, Ex Libris Primo via OhioLINK, Tableau Server, Leepfrog CourseLeaf) and every one is
    recorded as a relationship with x-operator tenant — no vendor contract is saved under CWRU''s name. Two honest negatives
    are recorded rather than hidden: CWRU has no DataCite membership at all, and its self-hosted SAML metadata endpoint at
    login.case.edu/idp/shibboleth serves a stale dev descriptor. Marked `covered` because the institution''s real footprint
    is fully mapped, not because it is large.'
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Acase.edu
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.case.edu/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.case.edu/cas/p3/serviceValidate
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.case.edu/cas/oidc/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 401
  - url: https://commons.case.edu/do/oai/?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://login.microsoftonline.com/case.edu/v2.0/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members/7530
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.ror.org/v2/organizations/051fd9666
    status: 200
  - url: https://data.case.edu/api/3.19/serverinfo
    status: 200
  - url: https://digital.case.edu/
    status: 200
  - url: https://bulletin.case.edu/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=case.edu
    status: 200
  - url: https://case.edu/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://case.edu/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.case.edu/
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.case.edu/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-09-01'
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://case.edu/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://case.edu/utech/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cwru
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/case-western-reserve-university/
- type: Blog
  url: https://case.edu/news/
- type: Support
  url: https://cwru.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/126/Portal/Home/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://case.edu/utech/policies/legal-privacy-notice/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://login.case.edu/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://mdq.incommon.org/entities/urn%3Amace%3Aincommon%3Acase.edu
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://commons.case.edu/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://ohiolink-cwru.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01OHIOLINK_CWRU:CWRUC
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://bulletin.case.edu/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://case.edu/registrar/general/statistics-and-data
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://case.edu/utech/departments/research-computing-and-infrastructure-services
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://case.edu/ai/governance-policies
- type: AITooling
  url: https://case.edu/ai/tools-resources
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/case-western-reserve-university-domain-standards.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/case-western-reserve-university-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/case-western-reserve-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/case-western-reserve-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/case-western-reserve-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/case-western-reserve-university-context.jsonld
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://researchguides.case.edu/discovery
maintainers:
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com