# Ohio State University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ohio-state-university/  
**Website:** https://www.osu.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 19.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 (3)

- **Knowledge Bank DSpace REST API** — Public REST API for the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University Libraries' DSpace 7.6 institutional repository. Exposes communities, collections, items, and bitstreams as JSON (HA...
- **Knowledge Bank OAI-PMH Interface** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Knowledge Bank institutional repository. Supports the standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, etc.) for harvesting ...
- **Web Single Sign-On (Shibboleth)** — Institution-wide web authentication and authorization service operated by the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation, built on Shibboleth and currently supporting the SAML ...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Ohio State University Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Library, Institutional Repository, Open Access, United States

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