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Western University

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.

Western University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Canada, and Library.

The Western University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Western University’s developer surface includes authentication and 9 more developer resources.

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19.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityCanadaLibraryInstitutional RepositoryOpen AccessIdentity

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 19.9/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4
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APIs 2

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

Scholaris (Scholarship@Western) DSpace REST API

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, collec...

Western Single Sign-On (SAML2 / OAuth / OIDC / CAS)

Western Technology Services operates an institutional Single Sign-On service supporting SAML2, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and CAS for authenticating users against their Weste...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Western Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Western Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Western Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Western Context

7 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Western Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter
 About
About

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/western.png
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: '2026-07-25'
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: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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/western-domain-security.yml
- 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
- type: About
  url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com