# Western University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/western/  
**Website:** https://www.uwo.ca/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 20.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Western Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Western Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Canada, Library, Institutional Repository, Open Access, Identity

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