American University of Beirut

---
aid: aub
name: American University of Beirut
description: >-
  The American University of Beirut (AUB) is a private research university in
  Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1866, and ranked #250 in the QS World University
  Rankings 2025. AUB's public, machine-readable developer footprint is centered
  on its University Libraries: the AUB ScholarWorks institutional repository runs
  on DSpace 9.1, which exposes a public RESTful API and an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata
  harvesting endpoint. Authentication across AUB web services is provided by a
  Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider. AUB does not publish a centralized
  developer portal; most other institutional systems (SIS, service desk) are
  gated behind SSO and are not publicly documented APIs.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aub/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Lebanon
  - Middle East
  - Research
  - Libraries
  - Open Access
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: aub:scholarworks-rest
    name: AUB ScholarWorks DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Public RESTful (HAL) API for the AUB ScholarWorks institutional
      repository, running on DSpace 9.1. Exposes communities, collections,
      items, bitstreams, discovery/search, and metadata over HTTP/JSON. The
      service root self-describes as repository "AUB ScholarWorks".
    humanURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/
    baseURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, DSpace, Research, Open Access, Libraries, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/AUB-Scholarworks
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/REST+API
  - aid: aub:scholarworks-oai
    name: AUB ScholarWorks OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the AUB ScholarWorks
      institutional repository (DSpace 9.1). Supports the standard OAI verbs
      (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) and exposes scholarly
      output of the AUB community for harvesting by aggregators.
    humanURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/
    baseURL: https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/server/oai/request
    tags: [ OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Repository, Open Access, Libraries ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://aub.edu.lb.libguides.com/AUB-Scholarworks
  - aid: aub:shibboleth-idp
    name: AUB Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
    description: >-
      AUB's institutional single sign-on is provided by a Shibboleth SAML 2.0
      identity provider. The SAML metadata is published at the entity endpoint
      and is used to federate access to AUB web services. This is an
      authentication/identity standard endpoint rather than a public data API.
    humanURL: https://servicedesk.aub.edu.lb/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=30424
    baseURL: https://idp.aub.edu.lb/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SAML, Shibboleth, SSO ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://servicedesk.aub.edu.lb/TDClient/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=30424
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.aub.edu.lb/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/AUB-CMPS
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/american-university-of-beirut
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://idp.aub.edu.lb/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/aub-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/aub-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/aub-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]