# University of California, San Francisco

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ucsf/  
**Website:** https://www.ucsf.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public health-sciences university and the only UC campus dedicated exclusively to graduate and health professions education, biomedical research, and patient care. Unlike most universities in this cohort, UCSF operates two genuinely institution-owned public APIs rather than renting them from a platform vendor: the UCSF Profiles JSON API, run by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute over 8,000+ researcher records, and the UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API, run by the UCSF Library Center for Knowledge Management over 28.2 million internal industry documents produced in tobacco, drug, chemical, food, fossil fuel and opioid litigation. Both are anonymous, read-only, and documented by UCSF itself. UCSF also operates a Shibboleth identity provider registered in the InCommon Federation as urn:mace:incommon:ucsf.edu. Everything else in UCSF's machine-readable footprint is a vendor platform running under a UCSF name — Dryad for research data, Ex Libris Primo for library discovery, CourseLeaf for the course catalog, and the California Digital Library's eScholarship for OAI-PMH harvesting — and is recorded here as a tenant relationship, not as UCSF engineering. There is no central UCSF developer portal: the developer.ucsf.edu host recorded in the June 2026 profile does not resolve on any public DNS resolver and has never been archived, and UCSF's API gateway at unified-api.ucsf.edu answers only with a Citrix challenge. UCSF publishes no OpenAPI, no changelog, and no status feed for either API it does run.

## Kin Score — 39.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: rising (+20.3 from 19.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 23.3 |
| Governance | 3.8 |
| Contract Governance | 3.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 39.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 64.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 39.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| 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: high).

## APIs (8)

- **UCSF Profiles JSON API** — Open, unauthenticated JSON API (v2) over UCSF Profiles, the research-networking platform run by UCSF CTSI, covering 8,000+ UCSF researchers, faculty and postdocs — name, school,...
- **UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API** — Public, unauthenticated Apache Solr query interface over the UCSF Industry Documents Library, an archive of 28,298,987 internal documents from the tobacco, drug, chemical, food,...
- **UCSF Identity Provider (Shibboleth / InCommon)** — UCSF's Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider, registered in the InCommon Federation and re-exported to eduGAIN. Signed, versioned, publicly retrievable federation metadata descr...
- **UCSF Industry Documents Library Content API** — Publicly readable REST content API behind the Industry Documents Library website, exposing 320 editorial pages — collection guides, curated document sets, field-name references,...
- **UCSF DataShare (Dryad)** — UCSF's institutional research-data repository, delivered on the Dryad platform. 1,306 DataCite DOIs carry a UCSF publisher string. Dryad operates a public REST API, but it is Dr...
- **UCSF scholarly output via eScholarship OAI-PMH** — UCSF's open-access scholarly output is harvestable as a named OAI-PMH set on the University of California's eScholarship repository, returning oai_dc records with ark:/13030/ id...
- **UCSF Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo)** — UCSF Library's discovery layer, delivered on Ex Libris Primo. No UCSF-operated catalog API was found; the Primo and Alma APIs are Ex Libris products and are not attributed to UC...
- **UCSF Course Catalog (CourseLeaf)** — The 2026–27 UCSF course catalog, published through Leepfrog's CourseLeaf. No public course, timetable or registrar API exists — the CourseLeaf JSON endpoints that some instituti...

## Security (2)

- **Ucsf Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Ucsf Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Ucsf Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, United States, California, UC System, Public Research University, Health Sciences, Research, Researcher Profiles, Research Data, Open Data, Library, Digital Archive, Identity Federation, Research Computing

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