University of Rochester

aid: university-of-rochester
name: University of Rochester
x-type: university
x-category: Private Research University
description: 'The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, and an AAU member, ranked
  #236 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It operates no central public developer portal and no public API programme,
  and its programmable footprint is small, decentralised, and concentrated in the libraries. Two surfaces are genuinely institution-operated
  and were verified live in August 2026: an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface at urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2 for
  UR Research, the legacy institutional repository, which runs on IR+ — repository software the River Campus Libraries themselves
  wrote and released under Apache 2.0 — and a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at idp.rochester.edu publishing scoped
  federation metadata at its own entityID. Everything else the institution appears to publish is a vendor''s contract running
  under its name: the University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) is a Figshare tenancy at rochester.figshare.com and
  library discovery is an Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy at rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Those tenancies are real institutional
  facts and are recorded as such, but the contracts describing them belong to Figshare and Ex Libris, not to Rochester. Administrative
  systems — the student information system, HR, finance, and course/registrar data — are gated behind institutional identity
  and are not publicly documented. The River Campus Libraries maintain an active public GitHub organisation (rochester-rcl,
  112 repositories) of digital-library and preservation tooling, which is the clearest evidence of the institution''s own
  engineering output.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Institution-operated endpoints · non-commercial
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open, no registration
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probed
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Public
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-rochester/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United States
- New York
- Private Research University
- Association of American Universities
- Research Repository
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Library
- Research Computing
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  detail: 'Two institution-operated machine-readable surfaces were found and verified live: the UR Research OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint
    and the Shibboleth/SAML identity provider metadata. Beyond those, the University of Rochester publishes no public API
    and no developer portal, and its research repository and library discovery layers are vendor tenancies (Figshare, Ex Libris
    Primo VE) whose contracts are the vendors''. The June 2026 profile credited this institution with eleven Figshare API
    entries served from api.figshare.com — a generic vendor host shared by fourteen other institutions in this cohort — and
    the ten refined OpenAPI documents behind them were titled "Figshare altmetric ..." with contact "Figshare Support". Those
    and every artifact derived from them have been removed. The previously catalogued OAI-PMH base URL urresearch.rochester.edu/oai/request
    was also wrong: it returns HTTP 200 with an "Unknown Action" HTML body — a soft 404. The working endpoint is /oai2, and
    it is now correctly based. rochester.figshare.com answers 202 with an empty body behind a bot challenge; it is live, recorded
    as a tenant surface, and not readable by probe.'
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: soft 404 — HTML "Unknown Action" page, not an OAI-PMH envelope
  - url: https://idp.rochester.edu/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://rochester.figshare.com/
    status: 202
    note: bot challenge, empty body — live but unreadable
  - url: https://rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01ROCH_INST:UR01
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.rochester.edu/
    status: 0
    note: DNS does not resolve
  - url: https://data.rochester.edu/
    status: 0
    note: DNS does not resolve — no open data portal
  - url: https://www.rochester.edu/llms.txt
    status: 404
apis:
- aid: university-of-rochester:urresearch-oai-pmh
  name: UR Research OAI-PMH Interface
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for UR Research, the University of Rochester''s legacy institutional
    repository, served from the university''s own domain and running IR+ — repository software written and open-sourced under
    Apache 2.0 by the River Campus Libraries. Verified live on 2026-08-30: repositoryName "UR Research", earliestDatestamp
    2003-07-17T19:40:11Z, three metadata formats (oai_dc, dcterms, marc21), hierarchical collection sets, and spec-correct
    badVerb error handling. This is one of the few genuinely institution-engineered API surfaces in this cohort.'
  humanURL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/
  baseURL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Institutional Repository
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-rochester-urresearch-oai-pmh-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-rochester-oai-identify-response.xml
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-rochester-oai-listmetadataformats-response.xml
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-rochester-oai-getrecord-response.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-rochester-conformance.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/rochester-rcl/irplus
- aid: university-of-rochester:shibboleth-idp
  name: University of Rochester Shibboleth Identity Provider
  x-operator: institution
  description: SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider metadata for the University of Rochester, published machine-readably
    at its own entityID. The EntityDescriptor carries an IDPSSODescriptor supporting SAML 1.1 and SAML 2.0 with a shibmd:Scope
    of rochester.edu. Institution-operated by definition — federation identity is not something a university can outsource
    the assertion of — and the single most reliably machine-readable surface most institutions run.
  humanURL: https://tech.rochester.edu/
  baseURL: https://idp.rochester.edu/idp/shibboleth
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/university-of-rochester-shibboleth-idp-metadata.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-rochester-conformance.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tech.rochester.edu/
- aid: university-of-rochester:urrr-figshare-tenancy
  name: University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) — Figshare tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'URRR is the University of Rochester''s current research data repository. It is a Figshare tenancy: Rochester''s
    data, Rochester''s DOIs, and Rochester''s curation, on a platform Figshare operates and whose API contract Figshare wrote.
    The programmatic surface is the generic Figshare v2 REST API at api.figshare.com — a host shared by fourteen other institutions
    in this cohort — so the contract is deliberately NOT saved here; it belongs to Figshare''s own profile. The tenancy itself
    is a real institutional fact and is recorded as one. rochester.figshare.com answers HTTP 202 with an empty body behind
    a bot challenge.'
  humanURL: https://rochester.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://rochester.figshare.com/
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Research Data
  - Figshare
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://rochester.figshare.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: x-vendor
    url: https://www.figshare.com/
- aid: university-of-rochester:primo-discovery-tenancy
  name: University of Rochester Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy
  x-operator: tenant
  description: River Campus Libraries discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE under the institution-specific view identifier
    01ROCH_INST:UR01, hosted at rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. The catalogue and its holdings are Rochester's; the discovery
    platform, its APIs and its contract are Ex Libris/Clarivate's. Recorded as a tenant relationship — no vendor contract
    is saved under this institution.
  humanURL: https://www.library.rochester.edu/
  baseURL: https://rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01ROCH_INST:UR01
  tags:
  - Library
  - Library Catalog
  - Discovery
  - Ex Libris
  - Tenant
  properties:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01ROCH_INST:UR01
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.library.rochester.edu/
  - type: x-vendor
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
common:
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/rochester-rcl/irplus/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://rochester.figshare.com/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.rochester.edu/idp/shibboleth
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01ROCH_INST:UR01
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/registrar/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://circ.rochester.edu/
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/ai/
- type: AITooling
  url: https://tech.rochester.edu/services/artificial-intelligence/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/rochester-rcl
- type: Support
  url: https://tech.rochester.edu/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/policies/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/accessibility.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/feed/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-rochester/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-rochester-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-rochester-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-rochester-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-rochester-finops.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-rochester-conformance.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com