Ohio State University

---
aid: ohio-state-university
name: Ohio State University
description: >-
  Ohio State University is a large public land-grant research university in
  Columbus, Ohio, United States, ranked #208 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. It does not operate a single centralized public developer portal;
  instead its public, programmatically accessible footprint is fragmented across
  units. The most clearly documented public APIs come from University Libraries'
  Knowledge Bank institutional repository, which exposes a DSpace 7.6 REST API
  and an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface. Institution-wide web
  authentication is provided through a Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Single Sign-On
  service, with most enterprise data and the data.world-backed Data Catalog
  gated to Ohio State affiliates.
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/ohio-state-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: ohio-state-university:kb-rest
    name: Knowledge Bank DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      Public REST API for the Knowledge Bank, Ohio State University Libraries'
      DSpace 7.6 institutional repository. Exposes communities, collections,
      items, and bitstreams as JSON (HAL) for the digital scholarship and
      creative works of Ohio State faculty, staff, and students. Verified live
      returning DSpace 7.6 metadata.
    humanURL: https://library.osu.edu/kb
    baseURL: https://kb.osu.edu/server/api
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, DSpace, Open Access, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://library.osu.edu/kb
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/osulibraries/DSpaceOSUKB
  - aid: ohio-state-university:kb-oai
    name: Knowledge Bank OAI-PMH Interface
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Knowledge Bank
      institutional repository. Supports the standard OAI verbs (Identify,
      ListRecords, ListSets, etc.) for harvesting Dublin Core and other metadata
      formats. Verified live with an earliest datestamp of 2003.
    humanURL: https://library.osu.edu/kb/faqs
    baseURL: https://kb.osu.edu/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://library.osu.edu/kb/faqs
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/osulibraries/DSpaceOSUKB
  - aid: ohio-state-university:websso
    name: Web Single Sign-On (Shibboleth)
    description: >-
      Institution-wide web authentication and authorization service operated by
      the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation, built on Shibboleth and
      currently supporting the SAML 2.0 standard with InCommon Federation
      membership. Used by campus and cloud-based applications to authenticate
      Ohio State name.# accounts. Intended for registered campus service owners
      rather than open public consumption.
    humanURL: https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/services/web-single-sign
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SAML, Shibboleth, SSO ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/services/web-single-sign
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dst-docs.it.osu.edu/websso/public/faq.html
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.osu.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/osulibraries
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-ohio-state-university/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cybersecurity.osu.edu/services/web-single-sign
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/ohio-state-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/ohio-state-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/ohio-state-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]