Western University

---
aid: western
name: Western University
description: >-
  Western University is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada,
  ranked #120 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable
  developer footprint is centered on Western Libraries: the institutional repository
  Scholarship@Western migrated in 2025 to Scholaris, a national shared DSpace 8 service
  hosted by Scholars Portal, which exposes a live DSpace REST API and an OAI-PMH metadata
  harvesting endpoint. Western Technology Services also operates an institutional
  Single Sign-On service supporting SAML2, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and CAS, but it is
  gated behind institutional affiliation rather than self-service. Western does not
  publish an official open course/timetable or open-data API; timetable data is
  documented only as scrape targets and via unofficial third-party projects.
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/western/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Canada
  - Library
  - Institutional Repository
  - Open Access
  - Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: western:scholaris-rest
    name: Scholaris (Scholarship@Western) DSpace REST API
    description: >-
      DSpace 8.3 REST (HAL) API for Western University's Open Repository, Scholarship@Western,
      hosted on the national Scholaris service by Scholars Portal. Exposes communities,
      collections, items, bitstreams, and discovery search over Western's theses,
      dissertations, conference proceedings, and other scholarly outputs. The API root
      is publicly readable; some core endpoints require authentication for write or
      protected access.
    humanURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
    baseURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Repository ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/api
  - aid: western:scholaris-oai
    name: Scholarship@Western OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for Western University's Open Repository
      (DSpace 8 on Scholaris). Supports the standard OAI verbs (Identify, ListRecords,
      ListSets, GetRecord, etc.) for third-party harvesting and discovery of Western's
      institutional repository metadata.
    humanURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/home
    baseURL: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request
    tags: [ Library, Institutional Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Metadata Harvesting ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/about.html
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://uwo.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
  - aid: western:sso
    name: Western Single Sign-On (SAML2 / OAuth / OIDC / CAS)
    description: >-
      Western Technology Services operates an institutional Single Sign-On service
      supporting SAML2, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and CAS for authenticating users
      against their Western institutional account. Integration is request-based via WTS
      and gated behind institutional affiliation rather than open self-service registration.
    humanURL: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SSO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, CAS ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.uwo.ca/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://ca.linkedin.com/school/westernuniversity/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/westernu
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://wts.uwo.ca/services/o/single-sign-on-sso-saml2-oauth-oidc-cas/index.html
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/western-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/western-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/western-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]