University of Sussex

aid: university-of-sussex
name: University of Sussex
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'The University of Sussex is a research-intensive public university at Falmer near Brighton in the United Kingdom,
  a member of the Russell Group''s peer set of UK research institutions and ranked #247 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Its programmable footprint is small and almost entirely indirect, and this profile says so rather than padding it.
  The one surface the university genuinely operates and publishes machine-readably is its own Shibboleth identity provider:
  idp.sussex.ac.uk serves signed SAML 2.0 metadata with an entityID of https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/shibboleth and a shibmd:Scope
  of sussex.ac.uk, running on a Sussex-controlled Azure deployment rather than a vendor''s multi-tenant service. Everything
  else that looks like a Sussex API is a vendor product running under a Sussex name: Okta for single sign-on at okta.sussex.ac.uk,
  Instructure Canvas for the VLE at canvas.sussex.ac.uk, Figshare for the research repository at sussex.figshare.com, and
  Ex Libris Primo for library discovery. Those relationships are recorded here as tenant surfaces because they are real institutional
  facts, but the contracts behind them belong to the vendors and are scored against the vendors'' own profiles. Sussex operates
  no public developer portal, publishes no OpenAPI of its own, and its GitHub organization has no public repositories. The
  former Sussex Research Online EPrints repository and its OAI-PMH endpoint have been decommissioned and now redirect to an
  HTML publications page.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: No institution-operated callable API · vendor platforms under an institutional name
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: affiliation
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Affiliation-gated · no public developer registration
  confidence: high
  source:
  - authentication
  - probe
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/university-of-sussex.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-sussex/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- United Kingdom
- Russell Group
- Public Research University
- Identity Federation
- Research Repository
- Library
- Learning Management
- Research
- Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: tenant_only
  detail: 'Sussex operates exactly one machine-readable contract of its own — the Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity-provider metadata
    at idp.sussex.ac.uk, whose host CNAMEs to a Sussex-run Azure instance (uos-idp-shib-prod.uksouth.cloudapp.azure.com),
    not to a vendor. Every other programmable surface reachable under a Sussex name is a vendor platform on a Sussex-branded
    hostname: okta.sussex.ac.uk CNAMEs to sussexac.customdomains.okta.com, canvas.sussex.ac.uk to universityofsussex-vanity.instructure.com,
    sussex.figshare.com to figshare.com, and library discovery is an Ex Libris Primo view (44SUS_INST). There is no developer
    portal, no institution-authored OpenAPI, no open-data portal (data.sussex.ac.uk and api.sussex.ac.uk do not resolve),
    and the GitHub organization has zero public repositories. One probe was blocked rather than answered: sussex.figshare.com
    returns an AWS WAF challenge (HTTP 202, x-amzn-waf-action: challenge, empty body) to every request including ?verb=Identify,
    so the Figshare tenant''s OAI-PMH endpoint could not be confirmed either way. This profile previously carried ten OpenAPIs
    and thirty-eight artifacts derived from them; all ten were Figshare''s generic v2 contract with an empty servers block,
    shipped identically by eleven other institutions, and have been removed.'
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  evidence:
  - url: https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
    status: 200
  - url: https://okta.sussex.ac.uk/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/api/v1/accounts
    status: 401
  - url: https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks
    status: 200
  - url: https://sussex.figshare.com/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 202
  - url: https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/cgi/oai2?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://sussex.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44SUS_INST:44SUS_VU1
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/universityofsussex/repos
    status: 200
  - url: https://data.sussex.ac.uk/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.sussex.ac.uk/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/llms.txt
    status: 404
apis:
- aid: university-of-sussex:identity-federation
  name: University of Sussex Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'The university''s own Shibboleth IdP, publishing signed SAML 2.0 metadata as a machine-readable EntityDescriptor.
    entityID https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/shibboleth, shibmd:Scope sussex.ac.uk, IDPSSODescriptor with protocolSupportEnumeration
    urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol and both signing and encryption KeyDescriptors. The host CNAMEs to uos-idp-shib-prod.uksouth.cloudapp.azure.com
    — a Sussex-operated deployment, not a vendor''s shared service — which is what makes this the one institution-operated
    contract in this repository. It is metadata, not a REST API: there is no OpenAPI to save and none has been invented.'
  humanURL: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/services/sso
  baseURL: https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/idp/
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: IdentityFederation
    url: https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
  - type: x-saml-metadata
    url: authentication/university-of-sussex-idp-saml-metadata.xml
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sussex-domain-standards.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sussex-authentication.yml
- aid: university-of-sussex:okta-sso
  name: University of Sussex Single Sign-On (Okta tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Sussex's Okta organization, reached on the Sussex-branded hostname okta.sussex.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to sussexac.customdomains.okta.com.
    It serves a complete OpenID Connect discovery document (issuer https://okta.sussex.ac.uk) advertising authorization code
    with PKCE, device code, CIBA, PAR, DPoP and dynamic client registration. The tenant is Sussex's; the contract is Okta's,
    so Okta's own generic API definition is deliberately not saved here. Access is limited to applications enrolled by the
    university and to @sussex.ac.uk credential holders.
  humanURL: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/services/sso
  baseURL: https://okta.sussex.ac.uk
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - Single Sign-On
  - OpenID Connect
  - Okta
  properties:
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://okta.sussex.ac.uk/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/services/sso
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/university-of-sussex-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/university-of-sussex-scopes.yml
- aid: university-of-sussex:canvas-vle
  name: University of Sussex Canvas VLE (Instructure tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Sussex's virtual learning environment, an Instructure Canvas deployment on the university's own hostname canvas.sussex.ac.uk,
    which CNAMEs to universityofsussex-vanity.instructure.com. The Canvas REST API answers on this host — /api/v1/accounts
    returns 401 {"status":"unauthenticated"} — and the LTI 1.3 platform keyset at /api/lti/security/jwks returns a live JWKS,
    which is the university's only confirmed Learning Tools Interoperability evidence. The deployment is Sussex's; the API
    contract is Instructure's and is not saved under this slug.
  humanURL: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/services/teachingandlearning/studydirect
  baseURL: https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/api/v1
  tags:
  - Learning Management
  - LTI
  - Canvas
  - Teaching
  properties:
  - type: JWKS
    url: https://canvas.sussex.ac.uk/api/lti/security/jwks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://canvas.instructure.com/doc/api/
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sussex-domain-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-sussex:figshare-repository
  name: University of Sussex Research Data Repository (Figshare tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Sussex's institutional research repository, a Figshare tenant at sussex.figshare.com (CNAME to figshare.com).
    The relationship is independently confirmed by DataCite, where the university is a member provider (OTZZ) operating one
    repository client, FIGSHARE.SUSSEX, bound to the domain sussex.figshare.com. The data and the DOIs are Sussex's; the API
    is Figshare's generic v2 contract. Ten copies of that contract were previously stored in this repository under Sussex's
    name — the same document eleven other institutions also shipped — and have been removed. The tenant host itself is behind
    an AWS WAF challenge (HTTP 202) and could not be probed on 2026-08-30; that is a blocked probe, not a dead host.
  humanURL: https://sussex.figshare.com/
  baseURL: https://sussex.figshare.com
  x-vendor-api-base: https://api.figshare.com/v2
  x-vendor-note: The generic Figshare v2 API base is recorded as x-vendor-api-base, NOT as this entry's baseURL. It is a host
    eleven other institutions in this catalog also point at; it belongs to Figshare's own profile. What Sussex operates is
    the tenant at sussex.figshare.com.
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - Research Data
  - Open Access
  - Figshare
  - DataCite
  properties:
  - type: ResearchRepository
    url: https://sussex.figshare.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.figshare.com/
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/figshare.sussex
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/university-of-sussex-domain-standards.yml
- aid: university-of-sussex:primo-discovery
  name: University of Sussex Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenant)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Library discovery for Sussex runs on Ex Libris Primo VE as institution view 44SUS_INST / 44SUS_VU1, hosted
    on the vendor's shared platform at sussex.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Sussex owns the view and the holdings; Ex Libris owns
    the platform and the API contract, which is gated behind Ex Libris developer keys and is not saved here.
  humanURL: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/
  baseURL: https://sussex.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  properties:
  - type: LibraryCatalog
    url: https://sussex.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44SUS_INST:44SUS_VU1
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/apis/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://idp.sussex.ac.uk/idp/shibboleth
- type: SAMLMetadata
  url: authentication/university-of-sussex-idp-saml-metadata.xml
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://sussex.figshare.com/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://sussex.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44SUS_INST:44SUS_VU1
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/services/research/highperformance
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/about/servicedescriptions
- type: Support
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/its/help/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/website/privacy-and-cookies/privacy
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/website/accessibility
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/universityofsussex
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-sussex/
- type: Publications
  url: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/publications
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-sussex-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/university-of-sussex-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-sussex-domain-standards.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/university-of-sussex-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/university-of-sussex-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/university-of-sussex-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/university-of-sussex-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com