Michigan State University

aid: michigan-state-university
name: Michigan State University
description: 'Michigan State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United
  States, ranked #89 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most large research institutions, MSU does not operate
  a single consolidated public developer portal; its confirmed public API footprint is concentrated in the MSU Libraries platforms,
  which expose a VuFind REST API (OpenAPI 3.0) for the library catalog and OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoints for the catalog and the digital
  repository. Identity is provided through a Shibboleth/SAML Identity Provider with OAuth 2.0 support, and MSU maintains official
  GitHub organizations for the university and for MSU Libraries. Most administrative, student, and research-profile interfaces
  are gated behind institutional affiliation rather than offered as open self-service APIs.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/michigan-state-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Library
- Open Data
- Metadata
- United States
- Michigan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: michigan-state-university:catalog-rest
  name: MSU Libraries Catalog REST API (VuFind)
  description: VuFind REST API (OpenAPI 3.0.3, VuFind v11.0.4) for the MSU Libraries catalog, providing programmatic search
    of and access to records in the discovery search index.
  humanURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1
  baseURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1
  tags:
  - Library
  - Catalog
  - Search
  - VuFind
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1/?swagger
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/michigan-state-university-catalog-rest.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/michigan-state-university-record-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/michigan-state-university-searchresponse-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/michigan-state-university-record-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/michigan-state-university-search-example.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/michigan-state-university-record-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/michigan-state-university-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/michigan-state-university-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/michigan-state-university-context.jsonld
- aid: michigan-state-university:catalog-oai
  name: MSU Libraries Catalog OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Michigan State University Libraries Catalog" repository,
    exposing bibliographic metadata for harvesting.
  humanURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/OAI/Server?verb=Identify
  baseURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/OAI/Server
  tags:
  - Library
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/OAI/Server?verb=Identify
- aid: michigan-state-university:dlib-oai
  name: MSU Libraries Digital Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "MSU Libraries Digital Repository" (d.lib.msu.edu), exposing
    descriptive metadata for digital collections.
  humanURL: https://d.lib.msu.edu/oai?verb=Identify
  baseURL: https://d.lib.msu.edu/oai
  tags:
  - Library
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  - OAI-PMH
  - Digital Collections
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://d.lib.msu.edu/oai?verb=Identify
- aid: michigan-state-university:idp
  name: MSU Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML / OAuth 2.0)
  description: MSU's federated single sign-on service. The Shibboleth Identity Provider issues SAML 2.0 assertions and the
    institution also supports OAuth 2.0 for application authentication and authorization. Access requires registered service-provider/application
    integration and institutional affiliation rather than open self-service.
  humanURL: https://tech.msu.edu/network/authentication-authorization/
  baseURL: https://idp.idm.msu.edu/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SSO
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - OAuth
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tech.msu.edu/network/authentication-authorization/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.msu.edu
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Michigan-State-University
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/MSU-Libraries
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/michigan-state-university/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://tech.msu.edu/network/authentication-authorization/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://idp.idm.msu.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: Plans
  url: plans/michigan-state-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/michigan-state-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/michigan-state-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com