# Michigan State University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/michigan-state-university/  
**Website:** https://www.msu.edu  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 34.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **MSU Libraries Catalog OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Michigan State University Libraries Catalog" repository, exposing bibliographic metadata for harvesting.
- **MSU Libraries Digital Repository OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "MSU Libraries Digital Repository" (d.lib.msu.edu), exposing descriptive metadata for digital collections.
- **MSU Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML / OAuth 2.0)** — 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 an...
- **Michigan State University Record API** — The Record API from Michigan State University — 3 operation(s) for record.
- **Michigan State University Search API** — The Search API from Michigan State University — 3 operation(s) for search.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Michigan State University Agentic Access** — 6 operations

## Security (1)

- **Michigan State University Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Michigan State University Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Library, Open Data, Metadata, United States, Michigan

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