Ohio State University

Ohio State University is a large public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States, ranked #208 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a single centralized public developer portal; instead its public, programmatically accessible footprint is fragmented across units. The most clearly documented public APIs come from University Libraries' Knowledge Bank institutional repository, which exposes a DSpace 7.6 REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface. Institution-wide web authentication is provided through a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On service, with most enterprise data and the data.world-backed Data Catalog gated to Ohio State affiliates.

Ohio State University publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Library.

The Ohio State University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Ohio State University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, and 7 more developer resources.

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21.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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3 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchLibraryInstitutional RepositoryOpen AccessUnited States

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Composite quality — 21.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ohio State University Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ohio-state-university
name: Ohio State University
description: 'Ohio State University is a large public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States, ranked
  #208 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a single centralized public developer portal; instead
  its public, programmatically accessible footprint is fragmented across units. The most clearly documented public APIs come
  from University Libraries'' Knowledge Bank institutional repository, which exposes a DSpace 7.6 REST API and an OAI-PMH
  metadata harvesting interface. Institution-wide web authentication is provided through a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On
  service, with most enterprise data and the data.world-backed Data Catalog gated to Ohio State affiliates.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ohio-state-university.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ohio-state-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- Open Access
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ohio-state-university:kb-rest
  name: Knowledge Bank DSpace REST API
  description: Public REST API for the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University Libraries' DSpace 7.6 institutional repository.
    Exposes communities, collections, items, and bitstreams as JSON (HAL) for the digital scholarship and creative works of
    Ohio State faculty, staff, and students. Verified live returning DSpace 7.6 metadata.
  humanURL: https://library.osu.edu/kb
  baseURL: https://kb.osu.edu/server/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - Open Access
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.osu.edu/kb
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/osulibraries/DSpaceOSUKB
- aid: ohio-state-university:kb-oai
  name: Knowledge Bank OAI-PMH Interface
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Knowledge Bank institutional repository. Supports the standard
    OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, etc.) for harvesting Dublin Core and other metadata formats. Verified live
    with an earliest datestamp of 2003.
  humanURL: https://library.osu.edu/kb/faqs
  baseURL: https://kb.osu.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://library.osu.edu/kb/faqs
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/osulibraries/DSpaceOSUKB
- aid: ohio-state-university:websso
  name: Web Single Sign-On (Shibboleth)
  description: Institution-wide web authentication and authorization service operated by the Office of Technology and Digital
    Innovation, built on Shibboleth and currently supporting the SAML 2.0 standard with InCommon Federation membership. Used
    by campus and cloud-based applications to authenticate Ohio State name.# accounts. Intended for registered campus service
    owners rather than open public consumption.
  humanURL: https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/services/web-single-sign
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/services/web-single-sign
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dst-docs.it.osu.edu/websso/public/faq.html
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ohio-state-university-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.osu.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/osulibraries
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-ohio-state-university/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/services/web-single-sign
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ohio-state-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ohio-state-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ohio-state-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Ohio State University

Kin Score

APIs 3

Knowledge Bank DSpace REST API

Knowledge Bank OAI-PMH Interface

Web Single Sign-On (Shibboleth)

Pricing Plans 1

Ohio State University Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Ohio State University Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Ohio State University Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Ohio State University Context

Security Posture 1

Ohio State University Domain Security

Resources