University of Rochester

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.

University of Rochester publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Oai Pmh API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, United States, and New York.

The University of Rochester catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

University of Rochester’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, support, engineering blog, and 21 more developer resources.

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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

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Composite quality — 23.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 17

Access Clarity 4.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 14.3 — up to +21.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 26.2 — up to +14.8 composite points
Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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OAI-PMH

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

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APIs 4

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

University of Rochester Shibboleth Identity Provider

SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth identity provider metadata for the University of Rochester, published machine-readably at its own entityID. The EntityDescriptor carries an IDPSSODescripto...

University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) — Figshare tenancy

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 Fig...

University of Rochester Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy

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 cat...

University of Rochester Oai Pmh API

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting verbs

University of Rochester API pricing

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University Of Rochester Plans Pricing

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Rate Limits 1

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Service Levels 1

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University of Rochester

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FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

University Of Rochester Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

University of Rochester API Rules

48 rules · 46 errors 1 warnings 1 info

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

University Of Rochester Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

LibraryCatalog

LibraryCatalog

AITooling

AITooling

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

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CourseCatalog

CourseCatalog

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Plans

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

ResearchRepository

IdentityFederation

IdentityFederation

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Source (apis.yml)

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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-rochester.png
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: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
  - SSO
  - Metadata
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - 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/
- aid: university-of-rochester:university-of-rochester-oai-pmh-api
  name: University of Rochester Oai Pmh API
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting verbs
  humanURL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/
  baseURL: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/oai2
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  tags_raw:
  - oai-pmh
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/university-of-rochester-oai-pmh-api-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
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

University of Rochester API — frequently asked questions

Does University of Rochester have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from University of Rochester, including University of Rochester Shibboleth Identity Provider, University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) — Figshare tenancy and University of Rochester Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the University of Rochester API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for University of Rochester, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the University of Rochester API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for University of Rochester, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the University of Rochester API ready for AI agents?

University of Rochester has a Kin Score of 23.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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