Michigan State University

---
aid: michigan-state-university
name: Michigan State University
description: >-
  Michigan State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing,
  Michigan, United States, ranked #89 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Like most
  large research institutions, MSU does not operate a single consolidated public developer
  portal; its confirmed public API footprint is concentrated in the MSU Libraries platforms,
  which expose a VuFind REST API (OpenAPI 3.0) for the library catalog and OAI-PMH 2.0
  endpoints for the catalog and the digital repository. Identity is provided through a
  Shibboleth/SAML Identity Provider with OAuth 2.0 support, and MSU maintains official GitHub
  organizations for the university and for MSU Libraries. Most administrative, student, and
  research-profile interfaces are gated behind institutional affiliation rather than offered
  as open self-service 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/michigan-state-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Library
  - Open Data
  - Metadata
  - United States
  - Michigan
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: michigan-state-university:catalog-rest
    name: MSU Libraries Catalog REST API (VuFind)
    description: >-
      VuFind REST API (OpenAPI 3.0.3, VuFind v11.0.4) for the MSU Libraries catalog, providing
      programmatic search of and access to records in the discovery search index.
    humanURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1
    baseURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1
    tags: [ Library, Catalog, Search, VuFind, Discovery ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/api/v1/?swagger
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/michigan-state-university-catalog-rest.yaml
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/michigan-state-university-record-schema.json
      - type: x-json-schema
        url: json-schema/michigan-state-university-searchresponse-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/michigan-state-university-record-structure.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/michigan-state-university-search-example.json
      - type: x-example
        url: examples/michigan-state-university-record-example.json
      - type: x-spectral-rules
        url: rules/michigan-state-university-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/michigan-state-university-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld-context
        url: json-ld/michigan-state-university-context.jsonld
  - aid: michigan-state-university:catalog-oai
    name: MSU Libraries Catalog OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "Michigan State University Libraries
      Catalog" repository, exposing bibliographic metadata for harvesting.
    humanURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/OAI/Server?verb=Identify
    baseURL: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/OAI/Server
    tags: [ Library, Metadata, OAI-PMH, Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://catalog.lib.msu.edu/OAI/Server?verb=Identify
  - aid: michigan-state-university:dlib-oai
    name: MSU Libraries Digital Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the "MSU Libraries Digital Repository"
      (d.lib.msu.edu), exposing descriptive metadata for digital collections.
    humanURL: https://d.lib.msu.edu/oai?verb=Identify
    baseURL: https://d.lib.msu.edu/oai
    tags: [ Library, Repository, Metadata, OAI-PMH, Digital Collections ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://d.lib.msu.edu/oai?verb=Identify
  - aid: michigan-state-university:idp
    name: MSU Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML / OAuth 2.0)
    description: >-
      MSU's federated single sign-on service. The Shibboleth Identity Provider issues SAML 2.0
      assertions and the institution also supports OAuth 2.0 for application authentication and
      authorization. Access requires registered service-provider/application integration and
      institutional affiliation rather than open self-service.
    humanURL: https://tech.msu.edu/network/authentication-authorization/
    baseURL: https://idp.idm.msu.edu/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SSO, Shibboleth, SAML, OAuth ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tech.msu.edu/network/authentication-authorization/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.msu.edu
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Michigan-State-University
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/MSU-Libraries
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/michigan-state-university/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://tech.msu.edu/network/authentication-authorization/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://idp.idm.msu.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/michigan-state-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/michigan-state-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/michigan-state-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]