# Rice University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rice/  
**Website:** https://www.rice.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 21.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| 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 (4)

- **Rice Research Repository REST API** — 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, bit...
- **Rice Research Repository OAI-PMH** — 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...
- **Rice Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider** — Rice University Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider used for federated single sign-on. The IdP publishes SAML metadata (EntityDescriptor with IDPSSODescriptor) at its shibbole...
- **Rice University Course Schedule** — 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 ...

## Security (1)

- **Rice Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Rice Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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