Rice University

---
aid: rice
name: Rice University
description: >-
  Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, ranked
  #141 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer/API
  footprint is modest and centered on the library's Rice Research Repository
  (R-3), a DSpace 9.x platform that exposes both a REST API and an OAI-PMH
  metadata interface for harvesting theses, dissertations, and scholarship.
  Rice also operates a Shibboleth/SAML identity provider for federated single
  sign-on and publishes a public course schedule. There is an official
  "RiceUniversity" GitHub organization, but it currently has no public
  repositories. No general-purpose, publicly documented developer portal was
  found.
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/rice/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Library
  - Open Repository
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: rice:repository-rest
    name: Rice Research Repository REST API
    description: >-
      DSpace 9.x REST API for the Rice Research Repository (R-3), Fondren
      Library's institutional repository. The API root advertises HAL links to
      communities, collections, items, bitstreams, and discovery endpoints.
      Verified live at the /server/api root (DSpace 9.3-SNAPSHOT).
    humanURL: https://repository.rice.edu/
    baseURL: https://repository.rice.edu/server/api
    tags: [ Repository, DSpace, Research, Library, Scholarship, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://repository.rice.edu/server/api
      - type: Website
        url: https://repository.rice.edu/
  - aid: rice:repository-oai
    name: Rice Research Repository OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the Rice Research Repository.
      The Identify verb returns repositoryName "Rice Research Repository" with
      an earliest datestamp of 2005. Supports standard OAI-PMH verbs including
      Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords, and ListSets.
    humanURL: https://library.rice.edu/services/sharing-research-data-rice-digital-scholarship-archive
    baseURL: https://repository.rice.edu/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, Research, Library ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://repository.rice.edu/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - aid: rice:sso-shibboleth
    name: Rice Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider
    description: >-
      Rice University Shibboleth/SAML 2.0 identity provider used for federated
      single sign-on. The IdP publishes SAML metadata (EntityDescriptor with
      IDPSSODescriptor) at its shibboleth metadata URL. Access to protected
      services requires institutional credentials.
    humanURL: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
    tags: [ Identity, SSO, SAML, Shibboleth, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - aid: rice:course-schedule
    name: Rice University Course Schedule
    description: >-
      Public course catalog and schedule search at courses.rice.edu, exposing
      term, subject, and catalog query parameters via the SWKSCAT endpoint. It
      is a web query interface rather than a formally documented REST/JSON API,
      but returns structured course data including CRN, meeting times, and
      credits.
    humanURL: https://courses.rice.edu/
    baseURL: https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat
    tags: [ Courses, Catalog, Registrar, Schedule, Education ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://registrar.rice.edu/students/courses
      - type: Website
        url: https://courses.rice.edu/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.rice.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/RiceUniversity
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/rice-university/
  - type: Status
    url: https://status.rice.edu/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://idp.rice.edu/idp/shibboleth
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/rice-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/rice-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/rice-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]