Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore is India's premier research-intensive university, founded in 1909, and ranked #211 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. IISc does not operate a formal, centralized public developer portal. Its confirmable public machine-readable footprint is academic: the ePrints@IISc institutional repository (EPrints software) exposes an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the DSpace-based ETD@IISc theses repository is likewise OAI-compliant. Individual labs and centres publish open source on GitHub (for example cni-iisc, csl-iisc, val-iisc), but there is no single official institutional GitHub org with public repositories or a documented REST API program.

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Bitstreams API, Collections API, Communities API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 9 more developer resources.

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37.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

5 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessInstitutional RepositoryOAI-PMHIndia

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Composite quality — 37.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 5

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Iisc Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 4

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

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Library

Library

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: iisc
name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
description: 'The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore is India''s premier research-intensive university, founded
  in 1909, and ranked #211 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. IISc does not operate a formal, centralized public developer
  portal. Its confirmable public machine-readable footprint is academic: the ePrints@IISc institutional repository (EPrints
  software) exposes an OAI-PMH metadata interface, and the DSpace-based ETD@IISc theses repository is likewise OAI-compliant.
  Individual labs and centres publish open source on GitHub (for example cni-iisc, csl-iisc, val-iisc), but there is no single
  official institutional GitHub org with public repositories or a documented REST API program.'
type: Index
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: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/iisc.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- India
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: iisc:eprints-oai
  name: ePrints@IISc OAI-PMH
  description: ePrints@IISc is the open-access institutional repository of IISc research publications, established in 2002
    on EPrints software. It is OAI-compliant and exposes an OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting interface at the standard EPrints
    /cgi/oai2 path for indexing and metadata reuse. The repository is publicly readable; deposit is restricted to the IISc
    research community. The live site is fronted by an Azure Application Gateway that blocks automated requests, so the OAI
    endpoint could not be programmatically verified during this review.
  humanURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
- aid: iisc:iisc-bitstreams-api
  name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Bitstreams API
  description: The Bitstreams API from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore — 2 operation(s) for bitstreams.
  humanURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Bitstreams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-bitstreams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/iisc-item-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/iisc-item-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/iisc-listItems-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/iisc-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/iisc-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/iisc-context.jsonld
- aid: iisc:iisc-collections-api
  name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Collections API
  description: The Collections API from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore — 2 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/iisc-item-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/iisc-item-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/iisc-listItems-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/iisc-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/iisc-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/iisc-context.jsonld
- aid: iisc:iisc-communities-api
  name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Communities API
  description: The Communities API from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore — 2 operation(s) for communities.
  humanURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Communities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-communities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/iisc-item-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/iisc-item-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/iisc-listItems-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/iisc-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/iisc-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/iisc-context.jsonld
- aid: iisc:iisc-items-api
  name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Items API
  description: The Items API from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore — 2 operation(s) for items.
  humanURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
  baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/iisc-item-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/iisc-item-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/iisc-listItems-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/iisc-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/iisc-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/iisc-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/iisc-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/iisc-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://iisc.ac.in/
- type: Library
  url: https://library.iisc.ac.in/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/IISc
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-science/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/iisc-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/iisc-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/iisc-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com