# University of Rochester

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/university-of-rochester/  
**Website:** https://www.rochester.edu/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, ranked #236 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It does not operate a single official, centralized public developer portal; its publicly reachable programmatic surface is found across library and research-data infrastructure. The University of Rochester Research Repository (URRR) runs on the Figshare platform, which exposes a public REST API and an OAI-PMH endpoint, and the legacy UR Research institutional repository still serves a live OAI-PMH interface. The River Campus Libraries also maintain an active public GitHub organization with digital-library tooling. Most enterprise systems (SIS, identity/SSO, course/catalog) are gated and not publicly documented.

## Kin Score — 41.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 68.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **UR Research Institutional Repository OAI-PMH** — The legacy UR Research institutional repository exposes a live OAI-PMH interface for harvesting Dublin Core metadata of deposited research outputs (papers, theses, datasets). Th...
- **University of Rochester altmetric API** — The altmetric API from University of Rochester — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **University of Rochester articles API** — The articles API from University of Rochester — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **University of Rochester authors API** — The authors API from University of Rochester — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **University of Rochester collections API** — The collections API from University of Rochester — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **University of Rochester institutions API** — The institutions API from University of Rochester — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **University of Rochester oauth API** — The oauth API from University of Rochester — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **University of Rochester other API** — The other API from University of Rochester — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **University of Rochester profiles API** — The profiles API from University of Rochester — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **University of Rochester projects API** — The projects API from University of Rochester — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **University of Rochester symplectic API** — The symplectic API from University of Rochester — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **University Of Rochester Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **University Of Rochester Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **University Of Rochester Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **University Of Rochester Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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