---
name: McGill University
description: McGill University public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcgill/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      McGill has no unified, open public developer portal. The strongest verifiable
      public API surface is the McGill University Dataverse, hosted on the Borealis
      (Scholars Portal) Dataverse platform, which exposes the standard Dataverse
      Native and Search REST APIs over the McGill collection - both confirmed live
      (GET /api/dataverses/mcgill returned a McGill collection JSON record; /api/search
      returned 200). A Shibboleth SAML IdP for SSO is live but is an identity service,
      not an open data API. An Azure API Management developer portal hostname surfaced
      in search but did not resolve (connection refused), so it is not cataloged. A
      github.com/mcgill org exists but has zero public repos and could not be verified
      as officially McGill-owned, so it is not used as a pointer. An "eScholarship"
      OAI-PMH path returned a SPA landing page rather than valid OAI-PMH XML, so it is
      not cataloged. No fabricated endpoints; only live-verified surfaces included.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/dataverses/mcgill
        status: 200
        note: Dataverse Native API - returned live JSON for the McGill University Dataverse collection.
      - url: https://borealisdata.ca/api/search?q=mcgill&per_page=1
        status: 200
        note: Dataverse Search API - returned JSON search results.
      - url: https://borealisdata.ca/guides/en/latest/api/native-api.html
        status: 200
        note: Dataverse Native API documentation (Borealis-hosted guides).
      - url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/search.html
        status: 200
        note: Dataverse Search API documentation.
      - url: https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/mcgill
        status: 200
        note: McGill University Dataverse collection landing page.
      - url: https://shibboleth.mcgill.ca/
        status: 200
        note: McGill Authentication Service - Shibboleth SAML SSO IdP (identity, not open API).
      - url: https://www.mcgill.ca/
        status: 200
        note: Official institutional website.
      - url: https://coursecatalogue.mcgill.ca/
        status: 202
        note: Public course catalogue web UI; no documented public API exposed.
      - url: https://horizon.mcgill.ca/pban1/bwckctlg.p_disp_dyn_ctlg
        status: 200
        note: Banner/Minerva course catalogue web interface; no open developer API.
      - url: https://mcgilluniversity.portal.azure-api.net/
        status: 0
        note: Azure API Management portal hostname from search did not resolve (connection refused).
      - url: https://github.com/mcgill
        status: 200
        note: GitHub org exists but has 0 public repos and unverified official ownership; not used as pointer.
      - url: https://github.com/mcgillu
        status: 404
        note: Referenced "official" McGill GitHub handle does not exist.
      - url: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/oai/request?verb=Identify
        status: 200
        note: Returned SPA HTML landing page, not valid OAI-PMH XML; no working public OAI-PMH confirmed.