EBSCO

EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e‑journals, magazine subscriptions, e‑books and a discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions. It offers a comprehensive suite of information resources and tools that enable users to search, discover, and access scholarly content across a wide range of subjects and formats, supporting research, education, and professional development worldwide.

EBSCO is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Content API, Publishers API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Research, Library, Education, and Information.

The EBSCO catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

EBSCO’s developer surface includes changelog, authentication, getting-started guide, documentation, and 21 more developer resources.

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33.5/100 thin ▼ -7.3 Agent 36/100 agent ready Heartbeat 14/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
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3 APIs

Company Research Library Education Information

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 33.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 4.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 22.4 — up to +19.4 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 34.5 — up to +13.1 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

EBSCOhost API

API for EBSCOhost services, providing access to search, retrieve, and AI insights for library resources.

EBSCO Content API

The Content API from EBSCO — 1 operation(s) for content.

EBSCO Publishers API

The Publishers API from EBSCO — 1 operation(s) for publishers.

EBSCO API pricing

Rate limits

Entitlement API Live: Live Rate Limit per Client Application - 5000 requests per minute
Entitlement API Sandbox: Sandbox Rate Limit per Client Application - 5000 requests per minute
HoldingsIQ Live Daily: Live Daily Rate Limit per Customer ID - 30000 requests per day

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Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ebsco Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

EBSCO

SLA

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ebsco Context

2 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

EBSCO API Rules

14 rules · 12 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

GetContentChangeAlertsResponse

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetPublishersPublisheridDocumentsDocumentidResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ebsco Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Ebsco Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Leadership

Leadership

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ebsco
name: EBSCO
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.ebsco.com/ebsco-default-og-image.png
description: EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e‑journals, magazine subscriptions, e‑books and a discovery
  service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions. It offers
  a comprehensive suite of information resources and tools that enable users to search, discover, and access scholarly content
  across a wide range of subjects and formats, supporting research, education, and professional development worldwide.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ebsco/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-14'
modified: '2026-10-14'
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
x-docs-hosting: fastly
tags:
- Company
- Research
- Library
- Education
- Information
tags_raw:
- Company
- Research
- Libraries
- Education
- Information
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ebsco-rate-limits.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/ebsco-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/ebsco-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/ebsco-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ebsco-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/ebsco-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ebsco-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ebsco-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ebsco-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/ebsco-status-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ebsco-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/ebsco-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/ebsco-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ebsco-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ebsco-packages.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.ebsco.com/terms-of-use
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.ebsco.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://legal.ebsco.com/privacy-policy
- type: Leadership
  url: https://about.ebsco.com/about/leadership
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.ebsco.com/ebscohost-ai-exchange/docs/getting-started
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.ebsco.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ebsco
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ebsco-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ebsco.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.ebsco.com
apis:
- name: EBSCOhost API
  description: API for EBSCOhost services, providing access to search, retrieve, and AI insights for library resources.
  humanURL: https://developer.ebsco.com/ebscohost-api/docs/overview.md
  aid: ebsco:ebscohost-api
- aid: ebsco:ebsco-content-api
  name: EBSCO Content API
  description: The Content API from EBSCO — 1 operation(s) for content.
  humanURL: https://developer.ebsco.com/ebscohost-api/docs/overview.md
  baseURL: https://apis.ebsco.com/medsapi-dynamed
  tags:
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ebsco-content-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ebsco-get-content-change-alerts-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ebsco-get-publishers-publisherid-documents-documentid-response-schema.json
- aid: ebsco:ebsco-publishers-api
  name: EBSCO Publishers API
  description: The Publishers API from EBSCO — 1 operation(s) for publishers.
  humanURL: https://developer.ebsco.com/ebscohost-api/docs/overview.md
  baseURL: https://apis.ebsco.com/medsapi-dynamed
  tags:
  - Publishers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ebsco-publishers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ebsco-get-content-change-alerts-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/ebsco-get-publishers-publisherid-documents-documentid-response-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Developer portal provides API docs but no OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract was found.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developer.ebsco.com/ebscohost-api/openapi.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-10-14'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 24
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

EBSCO API — frequently asked questions

Does EBSCO have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from EBSCO, including EBSCOhost API, EBSCO Content API and EBSCO Publishers API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the EBSCO API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for EBSCO, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the EBSCO API?

EBSCO documents its authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ebsco Authentication.

Is the EBSCO API ready for AI agents?

EBSCO has a Kin Score of 33.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 36.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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