# London School of Economics and Political Science

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lse/  
**Website:** https://www.lse.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, a member of the Russell Group and the University of London, ranked in the QS World University Rankings top 40 and specialised in the social sciences. LSE operates no public developer portal, no open data portal, no course-catalog or timetable API, and no official GitHub organisation — github.com/lse is an unrelated systems-programming lab. Re-profiled on 2026-08-19 against the operator axis, its genuinely institution-operated machine-readable footprint is two things: a SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https://lse.ac.uk/idp, and an IMS LTI 1.3 platform on its own Moodle VLE serving a live JWKS, OAuth 2.0 token endpoint and OIDC authorization endpoint. Everything else that appears to be an LSE API is a vendor contract running under an LSE tenancy — EPrints Services hosts the research repository, Ex Libris Primo VE the library discovery layer, Quartex the digital library, Epexio the archive catalogue, and DataCite the DOI registration. Those tenancies are real institutional facts and are recorded as such; the contracts behind them belong to the vendors, not to LSE.

## Kin Score — 33.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+11.5 from 22.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 24.9 |
| Governance | 15.2 |
| Contract Governance | 15.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 13.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 29.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (7)

- **LSE Shibboleth Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)** — LSE operates its own SAML2 Shibboleth identity provider for staff, students and library resource access, registered in the UK Access Management Federation under entityID https:/...
- **LSE Moodle LTI 1.3 Platform** — LSE runs its own Moodle virtual learning environment at moodle.lse.ac.uk on its own registrable domain, resolving directly to AWS with no vendor CNAME (managed hosting is provid...
- **LSE Research Online (EPrints, OAI-PMH)** — LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository — LSE's research outputs, LSE's metadata, LSE's registered OAI-PMH base URL and admin contact (lseresearchonline@lse.ac.uk)...
- **LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)** — LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and then eu00.primo.exlibrisgroup.com, under LSE's insti...
- **LSE Digital Library (Quartex — IIIF / OAI-PMH)** — The LSE Digital Library publishes digitised and born-digital material from LSE Library collections. The host CNAMEs to lse.custom.url.quartexcollections.com, an LSE tenancy on A...
- **LSE Archives Catalogue (Epexio)** — The LSE Library archive catalogue at archives.lse.ac.uk runs on Epexio, a hosted archival discovery platform, served from AWS behind a certificate issued to LSE's own hostname. ...
- **LSE DOI Registration (DataCite)** — LSE is a registered DataCite provider — member identifier lcqr, "London School of Economics", memberType consortium_organization, region EMEA, registered 2020-09-01, linked to R...

## Security (2)

- **Lse Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Lse Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Lse Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, United Kingdom, Russell Group, Social Sciences, Identity Federation, Learning Management, Research Repository, Library, Open Research, OAI-PMH, SAML, LTI, IIIF

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lse/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.