# McMaster University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mcmaster/  
**Website:** https://www.mcmaster.ca/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| 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 | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (2)

- **McMaster API Service Developer Portal** — Institutional API management developer portal operated by McMaster University Technology Services. Access requires sign-in with a MacID and password plus a short registration st...
- **MacSphere OAI-PMH Repository Interface** — Publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface for MacSphere, McMaster University Libraries' DSpace institutional repository of theses, dissertations, and open-ac...

## Security (1)

- **Mcmaster Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Mcmaster Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Canada, Ontario, Research, Open Access, Library

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