London School of Economics and Political Science

aid: lse
name: London School of Economics and Political Science
description: 'The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, United
  Kingdom, ranked #38 in the QS World University Rankings 2025 and renowned for the social sciences. LSE does not operate
  a unified public developer portal. Its confirmed public, machine-readable footprint centers on library and open-research
  infrastructure: the LSE Research Online institutional repository (EPrints) exposes metadata via OAI-PMH, the LSE Digital
  Library (Quartex) offers IIIF manifests and OAI-PMH harvesting on request, and discovery runs on Ex Libris Alma/Primo. Identity
  for student/staff systems is federated via SAML2 (Shibboleth / UK Access Management Federation). Most administrative and
  student APIs are gated behind institutional credentials rather than openly documented.'
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/lse.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- United Kingdom
- Library
- Open Research
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- IIIF
- Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: lse:research-online-oai
  name: LSE Research Online OAI-PMH
  description: LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository, built on EPrints 3, containing journal articles, working
    papers, theses, reports, datasets and other research outputs. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for harvesting Dublin
    Core (and other) metadata at scale. The endpoint was returning HTTP 500 at the time of review, but the OAI-PMH base URL
    is registered with re3data, SHERPA and ROAR.
  humanURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Research
  - EPrints
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: Registry
    url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011218
- aid: lse:digital-library
  name: LSE Digital Library (IIIF / OAI-PMH)
  description: The LSE Digital Library provides access to digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections
    via the Quartex platform. IIIF manifests are available per item, and metadata can be downloaded at scale via OAI-PMH;
    large-scale access is arranged by contacting the library.
  humanURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
  baseURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/
  tags:
  - Library
  - IIIF
  - OAI-PMH
  - Digital Collections
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
- aid: lse:library-search
  name: LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo)
  description: LSE Library discovery and resource management run on Ex Libris Alma and Primo. Programmatic access (Primo Search/PNX,
    Alma REST APIs) follows the standard Ex Libris developer model and is governed by institutional configuration and credentials
    rather than a public LSE-branded API.
  humanURL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/catalogues
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Alma
  - Primo
  - Catalogue
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/catalogues
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
- aid: lse:identity-saml
  name: LSE Identity / SAML2 Single Sign-On
  description: LSE student, staff and learning systems (e.g. Moodle, LSE for You) are protected by SAML2 single sign-on, federated
    through the UK Access Management Federation (Shibboleth). This is an authentication interface for affiliated users and
    federation members, not an open self-service API.
  humanURL: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/selectidp.php
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/selectidp.php
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lse-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-london-school-of-economics-and-political-science/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/LSEnews
- type: Authentication
  url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/selectidp.php
- type: Plans
  url: plans/lse-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/lse-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/lse-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/feed/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/lse-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com