Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

aid: iisc
name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, founded 1909, is India''s premier research-intensive institution
  — a deemed university, an Institute of Eminence, and ranked #211 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates no
  developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI of its own, and this profile does not pretend otherwise. What it does run, on hosts
  under its own iisc.ac.in domain, are three verified institution-operated machine surfaces: a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity
  provider at libraryidp.iisc.ac.in registered in the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED) and carried into eduGAIN;
  an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on the Open Journal Systems instance behind the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science at journal.iisc.ac.in;
  and a self-hosted Moodle LMS at courses.iisc.ac.in whose LTI 1.3 JWKS and token-gated web-services REST endpoint are both
  live. Two older repository surfaces are currently unreadable rather than absent — ETD@IISc (DSpace 6) has returned 502 on
  every path since roughly May 2026, and ePrints@IISc sits behind an Azure WAF that 403s every automated client including
  the Internet Archive. IISc is registered in ROR (04dese585) and the Crossref Open Funder Registry (100007780) but is not
  a DataCite or Crossref member. Its public code lives in departmental GitHub organisations (val-iisc, csl-iisc, cni-iisc),
  not in a central institutional org — github.com/IISc exists but holds zero public repositories.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - 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
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
- India
- Institute of Eminence
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Shibboleth
- Library
- Learning Management
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-09-01'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: iisc:identity-federation
  name: IISc Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN)
  x-operator: institution
  description: Institution-operated Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, self-published as machine-readable metadata on
    IISc's own host and registered in the INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED), which carries it into eduGAIN. Verified
    live 2026-09-01 — GET https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth returns 200 application/xml, a 15,764-byte EntityDescriptor
    with entityID https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth, mdui:DisplayName "Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru"
    and shibmd:Scope iisc.ac.in. It advertises SingleSignOnService on HTTP-POST, HTTP-POST-SimpleSign, HTTP-Redirect and the
    Shibboleth AuthnRequest binding, SingleLogoutService on four bindings, and SAML1/SAML2 SOAP AttributeQuery on port 8443.
    The Redirect/SSO endpoint returns 400 "Stale Request" to a bare GET, which is a running IdP rejecting a malformed AuthnRequest.
    The eduGAIN entity API returns exactly one IISc entity (id 672727, regauth http://inflibnet.ac.in, code INFED, sirtfi_status
    1, first seen 2020-04-12) and it appears in the eduGAIN aggregate. A federation is shared by definition; the IdP behind
    it is IISc's own, and this is the strongest institution-operated machine surface the institute has.
  humanURL: https://infed.in/
  baseURL: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iisc-conformance.yml
- aid: iisc:jiisc-oai
  name: Journal of the Indian Institute of Science OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider for the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, served from
    IISc's own journal.iisc.ac.in host on an Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.22 (Public Knowledge Project) deployment. Verified
    live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName "Journal of the Indian Institute of Science",
    adminEmail journal@apc.iisc.ernet.in, protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2012-12-07T00:50:21Z, deletedRecord persistent,
    granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ and gzip/deflate compression; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns 200 and verb=ListSets
    returns 200 with 51KB of real issue sets. The OJS REST API on the same host is closed — /index.php/iisc/api/v1/issues
    returns 403 api.403.unauthorized. The OJS software and its contract are PKP's and no OJS spec is saved under this institution;
    the deployment, the host, the journal and the metadata are IISc's.
  humanURL: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/oai
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  - Scholarly Publishing
  - Open Journal Systems
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iisc-conformance.yml
- aid: iisc:courses-moodle
  name: IKEN Moodle LMS — web services and LTI 1.3 platform
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'IISc''s own learning management system, a self-hosted Moodle branded "IKEN" at courses.iisc.ac.in, exposing
    two machine surfaces verified live 2026-09-01. The LTI 1.3 Advantage platform endpoints are public — GET /mod/lti/certs.php
    returns 200 application/json with a real JWKS (RSA, RS256, kid ffa71c7514f167fc08f4) and /mod/lti/auth.php returns 200
    — which makes this a genuine, evidenced IMS LTI conformance surface on the institution''s own domain. The Moodle web-services
    REST endpoint at /webservice/rest/server.php is live and token-gated, returning 200 application/json {"exception":"moodle_exception","errorcode":"invalidtoken"}
    to a keyless call, and /lib/ajax/service.php returns a structured Moodle JSON error. No token is issued to the public,
    so no payload could be read and no contract has been generated to stand in for one: the Moodle web-services contract is
    Moodle''s product contract, shared by every deployment, and belongs in Moodle''s own repo rather than here. The deployment,
    the host and the courses are IISc''s.'
  humanURL: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/webservice/rest/server.php
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Learning Management
  - Moodle
  - LTI
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/mod/lti/certs.php
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/iisc-conformance.yml
- aid: iisc:etd-dspace-rest
  name: ETD@IISc DSpace 6 REST API
  x-operator: institution
  description: Read-only REST API of ETD@IISc, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations repository IISc runs on DSpace 6 at
    its own etd.iisc.ac.in host, serving the Community / Collection / Item / Bitstream hierarchy as JSON. HOST CURRENTLY DEAD
    — re-probed 2026-09-01 with a browser User-Agent, every path (/, /rest, /rest/communities, /rest/items, /handle/2005/1,
    /oai/request) returns HTTP 502 with a 165-byte "The website is under maintenance" body on three consecutive attempts,
    and the Internet Archive holds no successful capture after 2026-05-16. The four OpenAPI documents below were written by
    API Evangelist against the documented DSpace 6 contract and confirmed against the live host during the 2026-06-03 enrichment
    run; they are stamped x-method generated with an x-host-status block recording the 502, and are retained as the record
    of an institution-operated deployment rather than as a callable surface. This single entry replaces the four separate
    apis[] records the tag split had created, which reported one deployment as four APIs.
  humanURL: https://library.iisc.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/rest
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - DSpace
  - Theses
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-communities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/iisc-bitstreams-api-openapi.yml
  - 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:eprints-oai
  name: ePrints@IISc OAI-PMH
  x-operator: institution
  description: ePrints@IISc is the open-access institutional repository of IISc research publications, established in 2002
    on EPrints software and self-hosted on the institute's own eprints.iisc.ac.in domain. It is OAI-compliant and advertises
    the standard EPrints OAI-PMH interface at /cgi/oai2. UNVERIFIABLE, NOT ABSENT — the host sits behind an Azure Web Application
    Firewall which returned 403 with an "Azure WAF" body to every automated client tried on 2026-09-01 (Chrome on macOS, Chrome
    on Windows, Googlebot and bare curl), and the Internet Archive's own 2026 captures (2026-01-14, 2026-02-26) also recorded
    403. The repository remains readable to human browsers; no OAI-PMH response body has ever been read, so this is recorded
    as an unverified surface and is not counted as an OAI-PMH conformance hit.
  humanURL: https://library.iisc.ac.in/
  baseURL: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - EPrints
  - Open Access
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- aid: iisc:ror-registration
  name: ROR registration — Indian Institute of Science
  x-operator: registry
  description: IISc is registered in the Research Organization Registry as https://ror.org/04dese585. Verified 2026-09-01
    — https://api.ror.org/organizations/04dese585 returns 200 with names "Indian Institute of Science" / "IISc", established
    1909, domains ["iisc.ac.in"], and external ids grid.34980.36, ISNI 0000 0001 0482 5067, Wikidata Q948720 and Crossref
    Funder ids 100007780, 100008044 and 100007871; last modified 2026-08-25. ROR is an identifier registry IISc is registered
    in — a fact about the institution — and ROR's own contract is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://ror.org/04dese585
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org/organizations/04dese585
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - ROR
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://ror.org/04dese585
- aid: iisc:crossref-funder-registry
  name: Crossref Open Funder Registry entry — Indian Institute of Science
  x-operator: registry
  description: IISc holds Crossref Open Funder Registry id 100007780. Verified 2026-09-01 — https://api.crossref.org/funders/100007780
    returns 200 naming "Indian Institute of Science" with a hierarchy of its own centres including the Center for Infrastructure,
    Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (100008044) and the Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics (100009935).
    This is a funder-registry membership, not Crossref DOI-deposit membership — https://api.crossref.org/members?query=Indian+Institute+of+Science
    returns total-results 0 — and it is recorded rather than scored as crossref conformance.
  humanURL: https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/
  baseURL: https://api.crossref.org/funders/100007780
  tags:
  - Registry
  - Identifiers
  - Crossref
  - Funding
  properties:
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.crossref.org/funders/100007780
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://iisc.ac.in/
- type: Library
  url: https://library.iisc.ac.in/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://libraryopac.iisc.ac.in/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.serc.iisc.ac.in/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
  url: https://iisc.ac.in/academics/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/val-iisc
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/csl-iisc
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/cni-iisc
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/indian-institute-of-science/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iisc-conformance.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/iisc-capability-edges.yml
  name: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/iisc-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/iisc-domain-security.yml
- 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
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Three institution-operated machine surfaces were found and verified live on 2026-09-01, all on hosts under IISc''s
    own iisc.ac.in domain — a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at libraryidp.iisc.ac.in registered in INFED and carried
    into eduGAIN, an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on the Open Journal Systems instance at journal.iisc.ac.in, and a self-hosted Moodle
    LMS at courses.iisc.ac.in exposing a public LTI 1.3 JWKS and a token-gated web-services REST endpoint. Four education-regime
    domain standards are evidenced from public endpoints — shibboleth, saml, oai-pmh and lti — and eight are recorded as not
    conformant with the negative probe that established each. Two repository surfaces are unreadable rather than absent and
    are reported as such rather than deleted: ETD@IISc (DSpace 6) has returned 502 on every path since roughly 2026-05-16,
    and ePrints@IISc is 403 behind an Azure WAF to every automated client including the Internet Archive. No vendor or tenant
    relationship was found anywhere on IISc''s surface — no Figshare, Pure, Ex Libris, Dataverse or Symplectic tenancy exists
    — so this profile records none; every surface here is institution-operated or a registry the institute is registered in
    (ROR 04dese585, Crossref Open Funder Registry 100007780). IISc is not a DataCite or Crossref member and no institutional
    ORCID integration is publicly evidenced. There is no developer portal, no llms.txt, no security.txt, no sitemap.xml and
    no public WordPress REST API (iisc.ac.in/wp-json returns 401 rest_not_logged_in); the four DSpace OpenAPIs in this repo
    were written by API Evangelist and are stamped as such. github.com/IISc is a real organisation with zero public repositories
    and has been dropped as a pointer in favour of the three departmental orgs that actually publish code.'
  generated: '2026-09-01'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
    status: 400
  - url: https://libraryidp.iisc.ac.in/idp/status
    status: 403
  - url: https://technical.edugain.org/api.php?action=list_entities
    status: 200
  - url: https://mds.edugain.org/edugain-v2.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/oai?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/api/v1/issues
    status: 403
  - url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/mod/lti/certs.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/mod/lti/auth.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/webservice/rest/server.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://courses.iisc.ac.in/enrol/lti/
    status: 404
  - url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/rest/communities
    status: 502
  - url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/rest/items
    status: 502
  - url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 502
  - url: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/1
    status: 502
  - url: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 403
  - url: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/
    status: 403
  - url: https://libraryopac.iisc.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://library.iisc.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.serc.iisc.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://iisc.ac.in/
    status: 200
  - url: https://iisc.ac.in/academics/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.iisc.ac.in/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?per_page=1
    status: 401
  - url: https://iisc.ac.in/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://iisc.ac.in/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://iisc.ac.in/sitemap.xml
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.ror.org/organizations/04dese585
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/funders/100007780
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.crossref.org/members?query=Indian+Institute+of+Science
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/providers?query=Indian%20Institute%20of%20Science
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.datacite.org/clients?query=iisc
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/users/IISc
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/val-iisc
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/csl-iisc
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/cni-iisc
    status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com