Ohio State University

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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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: 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