specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Brown University
providerId: brown
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: derived
probed: '2026-08-30'
method_note: >-
  Authored by API Evangelist from live probes on 2026-08-30, not published by Brown. `derived` is the
  authorship class the catalog's provenance manifest reads; the probe evidence itself is in `source`
  and in the per-finding `evidence` blocks below.
x-operator: institution
reconciled: true
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Plans
description: >-
  Brown University is a non-commercial higher-education institution and sells no API. There is no
  pricing page, no plan table, no quota tier and nothing to sign up for. Corrected on 2026-08-30: the
  2026-06-03 version described "library, repository, course, and open-metadata interfaces" as Brown's
  free public APIs. Only the repository interface is Brown's. Course data reaches the public through
  a Leepfrog CourseLeaf tenant and library discovery through an Ex Libris Primo VE tenant; both are
  free to the caller and neither is Brown's engineering, so neither belongs in Brown's plan
  inventory. There is no open-metadata interface at all — no OAI-PMH endpoint exists.
notes: >-
  "Free / Open" is the whole commercial story for Brown's institution-operated surface, and it is
  literal: https://repository.library.brown.edu/api/search/?q=*&rows=1 returned HTTP 200 with a full
  result set and no credential on 2026-08-30. "Affiliation / Credentialed" describes the Brown-only
  view behind Shibboleth that every search response advertises through its links.login key; that is
  browser SSO, gated by institutional identity rather than by payment, and it issues no API
  credential.
sources:
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brown/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- https://repository.library.brown.edu/api/search/?q=*&rows=1
- https://repository.library.brown.edu/api/login/
plans:
- id: brown-free-open
  name: Free / Open
  type: free
  description: >-
    The Brown Digital Repository REST API and its IIIF Image and Presentation services — Brown's only
    institution-operated public APIs. Keyless, unregistered, free. Rights on the OBJECTS the API
    returns vary per item and are carried in each object's MODS access-condition fields; the API
    itself carries no terms of its own.
  entries:
  - label: Open API Access
    name: open_api_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
- id: brown-affiliation
  name: Affiliation / Credentialed
  type: free
  description: >-
    The Brown-affiliate view of the repository, reached through the Shibboleth SSO that every search
    response points at, plus the SAML federation membership itself. Gated by institutional identity,
    not by payment, and not usable by software — there is no token endpoint, no OAuth server and no
    service account.
  entries:
  - label: Credentialed Access
    name: credentialed_access
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com