Pennsylvania State University

aid: pennsylvania-state-university
name: Pennsylvania State University
description: 'Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a public, land-grant research university with its primary campus
  at University Park, PA, and is ranked #69 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is centered
  on a Penn State IT web developer portal (docs.developer.psu.edu) that catalogs internal REST services such as PSU ID, Academic
  Course, Cornerstone, Sponsored Accounts, and ASR Lookup, though those API reference pages sit behind Shibboleth/WebAccess
  single sign-on. Publicly reachable APIs include the Office of Physical Plant LionSpaceFIS facilities REST API and the University
  Libraries Researcher Metadata Database (RMD), which exposes researcher/publication metadata via an OpenAPI-described REST
  API gated by a license key. Penn State also maintains public open-source GitHub organizations.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Facilities
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: pennsylvania-state-university:fis
  name: LionSpaceFIS REST API
  description: Public REST API from the Penn State Office of Physical Plant exposing the university's facilities/space data
    (the successor to the legacy FIS Facilities Information System). Provides buildings, rooms, campuses, buildingEvents,
    and roomEvents entities with filtering, wildcard, and comparison operators, plus a health endpoint. Confirmed publicly
    reachable (GET /fis-api/v1/campuses and /fis-api/health both return 200).
  humanURL: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/
  baseURL: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/v1
  tags:
  - Facilities
  - Buildings
  - Campuses
  - Space
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pennsylvania-state-university-fis.yaml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pennsylvania-state-university-building-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/pennsylvania-state-university-room-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/pennsylvania-state-university-building-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/pennsylvania-state-university-room-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/pennsylvania-state-university-listBuildings-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/pennsylvania-state-university-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/pennsylvania-state-university-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/pennsylvania-state-university-context.jsonld
- aid: pennsylvania-state-university:rmd
  name: Researcher Metadata Database (RMD) API
  description: Penn State University Libraries' faculty and research metadata service, maintained with OSVPR and West Arete.
    Publishes cleaned researcher metadata (publications, presentations, performances, advising, news, and biographical content)
    through a RESTful API described with the OpenAPI standard. A license key is required to query the data; interactive API
    docs are served at /api_docs.
  humanURL: https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/api_docs
  tags:
  - Research
  - Metadata
  - Publications
  - Library
  - OpenAPI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/api_docs
  - type: Signup
    url: https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/psu-libraries/researcher-metadata
- aid: pennsylvania-state-university:developer-portal
  name: Penn State IT Web Developer Services
  description: Penn State Information Technology operates a web developer portal that catalogs internal REST services and
    events and lets developers find, subscribe to, and request elevated access for APIs. Documented services include PSU ID
    Service, Academic Course Service, Cornerstone Service, Sponsored Accounts Service, and ASR Lookup Service. The portal
    landing page is reachable, but individual API reference pages redirect to Shibboleth/WebAccess single sign-on and are
    not publicly viewable.
  humanURL: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Courses
  - Internal
  - Gated
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.psu.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/PennState
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/psu-libraries
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/penn-state-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pennsylvania-state-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pennsylvania-state-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/pennsylvania-state-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com