McMaster University

aid: mcmaster
name: McMaster University
description: 'McMaster University is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ranked #176 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its developer and API presence is centered on a gated API service developer portal operated by
  University Technology Services, which requires institutional MacID authentication and a registration step before any API
  can be subscribed to; the underlying API catalog is therefore not publicly browsable. The most openly accessible programmatic
  interface is the library''s MacSphere institutional repository, a DSpace platform that exposes a public OAI-PMH metadata-harvesting
  endpoint.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcmaster/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Canada
- Ontario
- Research
- Open Access
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: mcmaster:developer-portal
  name: McMaster API Service Developer Portal
  description: Institutional API management developer portal operated by McMaster University Technology Services. Access requires
    sign-in with a MacID and password plus a short registration step; APIs and products cannot be browsed or subscribed to
    without authentication, so the catalog is gated and not publicly documented.
  humanURL: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
  tags:
  - Developer Portal
  - Authentication
  - Gated
  - API Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
- aid: mcmaster:macsphere-oai
  name: MacSphere OAI-PMH Repository Interface
  description: Publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for MacSphere, McMaster University Libraries'
    DSpace institutional repository of theses, dissertations, and open-access research outputs. Supports the standard OAI-PMH
    verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord) over HTTP returning XML metadata.
  humanURL: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
  baseURL: https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.mcmaster.ca/research/getting-started-macsphere
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mcmaster.ca/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.api.mcmaster.ca/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/mcmaster-university
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/mcmaster-university/
- type: Status
  url: https://uts.mcmaster.ca/status/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mcmaster-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mcmaster-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mcmaster-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/mcmaster-context.jsonld
- type: Blog
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com