Western University

aid: western
name: Western University
description: 'Western University is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada, ranked #120 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered on Western Libraries: the institutional repository
  Scholarship@Western migrated in 2025 to Scholaris, a national shared DSpace 8 service hosted by Scholars Portal, which exposes
  a live DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint. Western Technology Services also operates an institutional
  Single Sign-On service supporting SAML2, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and CAS, but it is gated behind institutional affiliation
  rather than self-service. Western does not publish an official open course/timetable or open-data API; timetable data is
  documented only as scrape targets and via unofficial third-party projects.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/western/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Canada
- Library
- Institutional Repository
- Open Access
- Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: western:scholaris-rest
  name: Scholaris (Scholarship@Western) DSpace REST API
  description: DSpace 8.3 REST (HAL) API for Western University's Open Repository, Scholarship@Western, hosted on the national
    Scholaris service by Scholars Portal. Exposes communities, collections, items, bitstreams, and discovery search over Western's
    theses, dissertations, conference proceedings, and other scholarly outputs. The API root is publicly readable; some core
    endpoints require authentication for write or protected access.
  humanURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
  baseURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api
- aid: western:scholaris-oai
  name: Scholarship@Western OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Western University's Open Repository (DSpace 8 on Scholaris).
    Supports the standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) for third-party harvesting and discovery
    of Western's institutional repository metadata.
  humanURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
  baseURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Metadata Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/about.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- aid: western:sso
  name: Western Single Sign-On (SAML2 / OAuth / OIDC / CAS)
  description: Western Technology Services operates an institutional Single Sign-On service supporting SAML2, OAuth, OpenID
    Connect (OIDC), and CAS for authenticating users against their Western institutional account. Integration is request-based
    via WTS and gated behind institutional affiliation rather than open self-service registration.
  humanURL: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
  tags:
  - Identity
  - Authentication
  - SSO
  - SAML
  - OAuth
  - OpenID Connect
  - CAS
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.uwo.ca/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/westernuniversity/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/westernu
- type: Authentication
  url: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
- type: Plans
  url: plans/western-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/western-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/western-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com