Boston University

---
aid: boston
name: Boston University
description: >-
  Boston University is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts,
  chartered in 1869, ranked #88 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. It
  serves over 34,000 students across three campuses with 300+ programs of study.
  Its public developer/API footprint is modest and largely gated: the most
  clearly public, machine-readable interface is the OpenBU institutional
  repository (DSpace) OAI-PMH endpoint. Boston University also references an
  internal API portal (webapi.bu.edu) and offers gated LLM API key access via
  Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock through IS&T, but those are not publicly
  reachable or documented without authorization.
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/boston/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Library
  - Open Data
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: boston:openbu-oai
    name: OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API
    description: >-
      OpenBU is Boston University Libraries' open-access institutional
      repository, built on DSpace. It exposes a publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0
      endpoint for harvesting metadata (theses, dissertations, journal articles,
      reports and more). The Identify verb resolves live with repository name
      "OpenBU" and supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
      ListSets, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers).
    humanURL: https://open.bu.edu/
    baseURL: https://open.bu.edu/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, Open Data, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Research ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://open.bu.edu/
  - aid: boston:ai-api-access
    name: AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)
    description: >-
      Boston University IS&T provides gated access to Large Language Model API
      keys for academic and research use, brokering frontier models via
      Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Amazon Bedrock (including Anthropic models).
      Access is restricted to faculty, researchers, staff and departments,
      requires financial-administrator approval and an AI API Key Request Form,
      and IS&T supplies provisioning details and documentation only after
      approval. No public base URL or open documentation is available.
    humanURL: https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/collaboration/conversational-ai/ai-api-access/
    tags: [ AI, LLM, Gated, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.bu.edu/tech/services/cccs/collaboration/conversational-ai/ai-api-access/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.bu.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/bu-ist
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/boston-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/boston-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/boston-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/boston-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]