---
aid: lse
name: London School of Economics and Political Science
description: >-
  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research
  university in London, United Kingdom, ranked #38 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025 and renowned for the social sciences. LSE does not operate a unified public
  developer portal. Its confirmed public, machine-readable footprint centers on
  library and open-research infrastructure: the LSE Research Online institutional
  repository (EPrints) exposes metadata via OAI-PMH, the LSE Digital Library (Quartex)
  offers IIIF manifests and OAI-PMH harvesting on request, and discovery runs on
  Ex Libris Alma/Primo. Identity for student/staff systems is federated via SAML2
  (Shibboleth / UK Access Management Federation). Most administrative and student
  APIs are gated behind institutional credentials rather than openly documented.
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/lse/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - United Kingdom
  - Library
  - Open Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - IIIF
  - Identity
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: lse:research-online-oai
    name: LSE Research Online OAI-PMH
    description: >-
      LSE Research Online is LSE's institutional repository, built on EPrints 3,
      containing journal articles, working papers, theses, reports, datasets and
      other research outputs. It exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for harvesting
      Dublin Core (and other) metadata at scale. The endpoint was returning HTTP
      500 at the time of review, but the OAI-PMH base URL is registered with
      re3data, SHERPA and ROAR.
    humanURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/
    baseURL: https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/cgi/oai2
    tags: [ Repository, OAI-PMH, Open Research, EPrints, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
      - type: Registry
        url: https://www.re3data.org/repository/r3d100011218
  - aid: lse:digital-library
    name: LSE Digital Library (IIIF / OAI-PMH)
    description: >-
      The LSE Digital Library provides access to digitised and born-digital
      material from LSE Library collections via the Quartex platform. IIIF
      manifests are available per item, and metadata can be downloaded at scale
      via OAI-PMH; large-scale access is arranged by contacting the library.
    humanURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
    baseURL: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/
    tags: [ Library, IIIF, OAI-PMH, Digital Collections, Metadata ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about
  - aid: lse:library-search
    name: LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Alma / Primo)
    description: >-
      LSE Library discovery and resource management run on Ex Libris Alma and
      Primo. Programmatic access (Primo Search/PNX, Alma REST APIs) follows the
      standard Ex Libris developer model and is governed by institutional
      configuration and credentials rather than a public LSE-branded API.
    humanURL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/catalogues
    tags: [ Library, Discovery, Alma, Primo, Catalogue ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/catalogues
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/
  - aid: lse:identity-saml
    name: LSE Identity / SAML2 Single Sign-On
    description: >-
      LSE student, staff and learning systems (e.g. Moodle, LSE for You) are
      protected by SAML2 single sign-on, federated through the UK Access
      Management Federation (Shibboleth). This is an authentication interface for
      affiliated users and federation members, not an open self-service API.
    humanURL: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/selectidp.php
    tags: [ Identity, Authentication, SAML, Shibboleth, SSO ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/selectidp.php
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.lse.ac.uk/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-london-school-of-economics-and-political-science/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/LSEnews
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://moodle.lse.ac.uk/auth/saml2/selectidp.php
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/lse-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/lse-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/lse-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
  - type: BlogRSS
    url: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/feed/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/lse-context.jsonld
  - type: Blogs
    url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com