Queen's University at Kingston

aid: queens-university-at-kingston
name: Queen's University at Kingston
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Queen''s University at Kingston is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada — a member of the
  U15 group of Canadian research universities, serving more than 25,000 students. Its machine-readable footprint is small,
  and stating it honestly matters more than inflating it: Queen''s operates no public developer portal, no institution-run
  open-data API, and no published course, timetable, or registrar contract. api.queensu.ca, developer.queensu.ca and data.queensu.ca
  do not resolve. What Queen''s genuinely operates and publishes on its own domain is federated identity — a Shibboleth Identity
  Provider serving SAML 2.0 metadata at login.queensu.ca — and an authored llms.txt directing AI agents to official sources.
  Its two research-data surfaces are real institutional facts but are tenant deployments, not Queen''s engineering: QSpace,
  the institutional repository, now runs as DSpace 8.4 on Scholaris, the shared service of the Ontario Council of University
  Libraries, and the Queen''s University Dataverse Collection lives inside Borealis, the national Dataverse operated by Scholars
  Portal. Both expose live REST and OAI-PMH interfaces, and both contracts belong to their platforms. An earlier profile of
  this repository carried 36 OpenAPI definitions titled after Queen''s; every one of them was the Dataverse product''s own
  contract, and they have been removed.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: none
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: No institution-operated API — programmable access is through tenant platforms
  confidence: high
  source:
  - apis.yml
  - live probes
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Free — public repository reads are keyless; deposit and identity are affiliation-gated
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/queens-university-at-kingston.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-at-kingston/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Canada
- Ontario
- U15
- Public Research University
- Research Data
- Institutional Repository
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
- Library
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: queens-university-at-kingston:identity-federation
  name: Queen's University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 Metadata)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Queen''s runs its own Shibboleth Identity Provider and publishes SAML 2.0 IdP metadata as application/xml
    at a stable, unauthenticated URL on its own registrable domain. The EntityDescriptor carries entityID https://login.queensu.ca/idp/shibboleth
    and a shibmd:Scope of queensu.ca. This is the single most substantive machine-readable surface Queen''s operates itself:
    it is the credential authority every federated Queen''s service resolves to, including its repository tenants, whose REST
    APIs advertise `shibboleth realm="DSpace REST API"` and redirect to this IdP. Consumed by relying parties and federation
    operators, not by general developers — there is no self-service registration.'
  humanURL: https://www.queensu.ca/its/
  baseURL: https://login.queensu.ca/idp
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - Shibboleth
  - SAML
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: SAMLMetadata
    url: https://login.queensu.ca/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/queens-university-at-kingston-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/queens-university-at-kingston-conformance.yml
- aid: queens-university-at-kingston:qspace-scholaris
  name: QSpace — Queen's University Institutional Repository (DSpace on Scholaris)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-platform: Scholaris — Ontario Council of University Libraries / Scholars Portal (DSpace 8.4)
  description: QSpace is Queen's open-access institutional repository for theses, dissertations and scholarship. The repository
    identity is unambiguously Queen's — the DSpace REST root reports dspaceName "Queens University Institutional Repository"
    and OAI-PMH Identify returns adminEmail qspace@queensu.ca — but the deployment is a tenant on Scholaris, the shared DSpace
    service run by OCUL / Scholars Portal. The former Queen's-hosted address qspace.library.queensu.ca now 301-redirects to
    queensu.scholaris.ca, which means the one host the contract audit read as institution-owned is in fact a redirect onto
    a provincial platform. Public reads are keyless; the REST and OAI-PMH contracts are DSpace's, so no OpenAPI is stored
    under this institution.
  humanURL: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/
  baseURL: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api
  tags:
  - Institutional Repository
  - DSpace
  - OAI-PMH
  - Research
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.library.queensu.ca/
- aid: queens-university-at-kingston:borealis-queens-dataverse
  name: Queen's University Dataverse Collection (Borealis)
  x-operator: tenant
  x-platform: Borealis — Canadian Dataverse Repository, operated by Scholars Portal / OCUL
  description: 'The Queen''s University Dataverse Collection is Queen''s multidisciplinary research-data repository — collection
    alias "queens", id 41133, affiliation "Queen''s University", holding 815 datasets with DataCite DOIs under the Borealis
    prefix 10.5683. The data, the curation and the depositor guidance are Queen''s; the software and the API are the Dataverse
    project''s, deployed nationally by Scholars Portal. Programmatic access is via the Dataverse native REST API scoped with
    subtree=queens. This entry records the tenant relationship deliberately: 36 per-tag OpenAPI definitions of the generic
    Dataverse contract were previously stored here under Queen''s name and have been removed.'
  humanURL: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/queens
  baseURL: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  x-baseurl-note: The Dataverse API base is not itself a fetchable resource (bare /api returns 404 by design); the Endpoint
    property below points at /api/info/version, probed live 2026-08-30.
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Dataverse
  - Open Data
  - DataCite
  - OAI-PMH
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/queens
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Collection
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/queens
  - type: Endpoint
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/info/version
  - type: OAI-PMH
    url: https://borealisdata.ca/oai?verb=Identify
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/llms.txt
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://login.queensu.ca/idp/shibboleth
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/queens
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://ocul-qu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01OCUL_QU:QU_DEFAULT
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://qmulus.io/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://cac.queensu.ca/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/ai/strategic-framework/guiding-principles-responsible-use
- type: AITooling
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/ai/applications
- type: Library
  url: https://library.queensu.ca/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/its/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/accessandprivacy/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/queens-qmulus
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/rss.xml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/queens-university-at-kingston-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/queens-university-at-kingston-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/queens-university-at-kingston-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/queens-university-at-kingston-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/queens-university-at-kingston-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/queens-university-at-kingston-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: tenant_only
  detail: 'Queen''s operates no public API of its own. Every callable surface reachable under its name is a tenant deployment
    on a shared Ontario or Canadian platform: QSpace runs as DSpace 8.4 on Scholaris (OCUL / Scholars Portal) after qspace.library.queensu.ca
    was redirected to queensu.scholaris.ca, and the Queen''s University Dataverse Collection runs inside Borealis (Scholars
    Portal). Library discovery is Ex Libris Primo on the OCUL shared instance. Two surfaces ARE genuinely Queen''s own and
    are recorded as such: the Shibboleth / SAML 2.0 IdP metadata at login.queensu.ca, and a substantive authored llms.txt
    at www.queensu.ca. The one previously catalogued open-data API, the student-built Qmulus project, is dead — api.qmulus.io
    and manage.qmulus.io return NXDOMAIN and its GitHub org has not been pushed to since January 2023 — so its landing page
    is kept only as a CourseCatalog pointer and it is no longer listed as an API. No institution-operated OpenAPI exists,
    and none was generated; 36 previously stored specs were the Dataverse product''s contract and were removed with everything
    derived from them.'
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://login.queensu.ca/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.queensu.ca/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/server/api
    status: 301
  - url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/api
    status: 200
  - url: https://queensu.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/queens
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.qmulus.io/v1
    status: 0
  - url: https://manage.qmulus.io/token
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.queensu.ca/
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.queensu.ca/
    status: 0
  - url: https://data.queensu.ca/
    status: 0
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com