Rice University

Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, ranked #141 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and centered on the library's Rice Research Repository (R-3), a DSpace 9.x platform that exposes both a REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata interface for harvesting theses, dissertations, and scholarship. Rice also operates a Shibboleth/SAML identity provider for federated single sign-on and publishes a public course schedule. There is an official "RiceUniversity" GitHub organization, but it currently has no public repositories. No general-purpose, publicly documented developer portal was found.

Rice University publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Library.

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

Rice University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, status page, 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

AccessFree

4 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchLibraryOpen RepositoryUnited 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 4

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rice 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 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

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: rice
name: Rice University
description: 'Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, ranked #141 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its public developer/API footprint is modest and centered on the library''s Rice Research Repository (R-3), a DSpace
  9.x platform that exposes both a REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata interface for harvesting theses, dissertations, and scholarship.
  Rice also operates a Shibboleth/SAML identity provider for federated single sign-on and publishes a public course schedule.
  There is an official "RiceUniversity" GitHub organization, but it currently has no public repositories. No general-purpose,
  publicly documented developer portal was found.'
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/rice.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rice/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Library
- Open Repository
- United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: rice:repository-rest
  name: Rice Research Repository REST API
  description: DSpace 9.x REST API for the Rice Research Repository (R-3), Fondren Library's institutional repository. The
    API root advertises HAL links to communities, collections, items, bitstreams, and discovery endpoints. Verified live at
    the /server/api root (DSpace 9.3-SNAPSHOT).
  humanURL: https://repository.rice.edu/
  baseURL: https://repository.rice.edu/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Library
  - Scholarship
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://repository.rice.edu/server/api
  - type: Website
    url: https://repository.rice.edu/
- aid: rice:repository-oai
  name: Rice Research Repository OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Rice Research Repository. The Identify verb returns repositoryName
    "Rice Research Repository" with an earliest datestamp of 2005. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs including Identify, ListMetadataFormats,
    ListRecords, and ListSets.
  humanURL: https://library.rice.edu/services/sharing-research-data-rice-digital-scholarship-archive
  baseURL: https://repository.rice.edu/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Research
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://repository.rice.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: rice:sso-shibboleth
  name: Rice Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider
  description: Rice University Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider used for federated single sign-on. The IdP publishes
    SAML metadata (EntityDescriptor with IDPSSODescriptor) at its shibboleth metadata URL. Access to protected services requires
    institutional credentials.
  humanURL: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
- aid: rice:course-schedule
  name: Rice University Course Schedule
  description: Public course catalog and schedule search at courses.rice.edu, exposing term, subject, and catalog query parameters
    via the SWKSCAT endpoint. It is a web query interface rather than a formally documented REST/JSON API, but returns structured
    course data including CRN, meeting times, and credits.
  humanURL: https://courses.rice.edu/
  baseURL: https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat
  tags:
  - Courses
  - Catalog
  - Registrar
  - Schedule
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://registrar.rice.edu/students/courses
  - type: Website
    url: https://courses.rice.edu/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rice-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rice.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/RiceUniversity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rice-university/
- type: Status
  url: https://status.rice.edu/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: Plans
  url: plans/rice-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rice-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/rice-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Rice University

Kin Score

APIs 4

Rice Research Repository REST API

Rice Research Repository OAI-PMH

Rice Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider

Rice University Course Schedule

Pricing Plans 1

Rice Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Rice Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Rice Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Rice Context

Security Posture 1

Rice Domain Security

Resources