# McGill University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mcgill/  
**Website:** https://www.mcgill.ca/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ranked #64 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on research-data infrastructure rather than a unified developer portal: the McGill University Dataverse is published through the Borealis (Scholars Portal) Dataverse platform, which exposes the full Dataverse Native and Search REST APIs over the McGill collection. Identity is federated through a Shibboleth SAML single sign-on service. Most other institutional systems (course catalogue, Minerva/Banner registration, library discovery) are gated behind authentication or web UIs and do not publish open, documented public APIs.

## Kin Score — 33.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 56.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **McGill Shibboleth SAML Single Sign-On** — McGill University Authentication Service, a Shibboleth Identity Provider offering SAML 2.0 federated single sign-on for McGill web applications and federation partners. This is ...
- **McGill University Dataverses API** — The Dataverses API from McGill University — 2 operation(s) for dataverses.
- **McGill University Info API** — The Info API from McGill University — 2 operation(s) for info.
- **McGill University Search API** — The Search API from McGill University — 2 operation(s) for search.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Mcgill Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (2)

- **Mcgill Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Mcgill Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Mcgill Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research Data, Open Data, Canada, Quebec

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