---
aid: pennsylvania-state-university
name: Pennsylvania State University
description: >-
  Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a public, land-grant research
  university with its primary campus at University Park, PA, and is ranked #69
  in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is
  centered on a Penn State IT web developer portal (docs.developer.psu.edu)
  that catalogs internal REST services such as PSU ID, Academic Course,
  Cornerstone, Sponsored Accounts, and ASR Lookup, though those API reference
  pages sit behind Shibboleth/WebAccess single sign-on. Publicly reachable APIs
  include the Office of Physical Plant LionSpaceFIS facilities REST API and the
  University Libraries Researcher Metadata Database (RMD), which exposes
  researcher/publication metadata via an OpenAPI-described REST API gated by a
  license key. Penn State also maintains public open-source GitHub
  organizations.
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/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Research
  - Library
  - Facilities
  - United States
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: pennsylvania-state-university:fis
    name: LionSpaceFIS REST API
    description: >-
      Public REST API from the Penn State Office of Physical Plant exposing the
      university's facilities/space data (the successor to the legacy FIS
      Facilities Information System). Provides buildings, rooms, campuses,
      buildingEvents, and roomEvents entities with filtering, wildcard, and
      comparison operators, plus a health endpoint. Confirmed publicly
      reachable (GET /fis-api/v1/campuses and /fis-api/health both return 200).
    humanURL: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/
    baseURL: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/v1
    tags: [ Facilities, Buildings, Campuses, Space, REST ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://apps.opp.psu.edu/fis-api/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/pennsylvania-state-university-fis.yaml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/pennsylvania-state-university-building-schema.json
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/pennsylvania-state-university-room-schema.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/pennsylvania-state-university-building-structure.json
      - type: x-json-structure
        url: json-structure/pennsylvania-state-university-room-structure.json
      - type: x-examples
        url: examples/pennsylvania-state-university-listBuildings-example.json
      - type: x-rules
        url: rules/pennsylvania-state-university-rules.yml
      - type: x-vocabulary
        url: vocabulary/pennsylvania-state-university-vocabulary.yml
      - type: x-json-ld
        url: json-ld/pennsylvania-state-university-context.jsonld
  - aid: pennsylvania-state-university:rmd
    name: Researcher Metadata Database (RMD) API
    description: >-
      Penn State University Libraries' faculty and research metadata service,
      maintained with OSVPR and West Arete. Publishes cleaned researcher
      metadata (publications, presentations, performances, advising, news, and
      biographical content) through a RESTful API described with the OpenAPI
      standard. A license key is required to query the data; interactive API
      docs are served at /api_docs.
    humanURL: https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/api_docs
    tags: [ Research, Metadata, Publications, Library, OpenAPI ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/api_docs
      - type: SignUp
        url: https://metadata.libraries.psu.edu/
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/psu-libraries/researcher-metadata
  - aid: pennsylvania-state-university:developer-portal
    name: Penn State IT Web Developer Services
    description: >-
      Penn State Information Technology operates a web developer portal that
      catalogs internal REST services and events and lets developers find,
      subscribe to, and request elevated access for APIs. Documented services
      include PSU ID Service, Academic Course Service, Cornerstone Service,
      Sponsored Accounts Service, and ASR Lookup Service. The portal landing
      page is reachable, but individual API reference pages redirect to
      Shibboleth/WebAccess single sign-on and are not publicly viewable.
    humanURL: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
    tags: [ Identity, Courses, Internal, Gated, Authentication ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
      - type: Authentication
        url: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.psu.edu/
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://docs.developer.psu.edu/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/PennState
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/psu-libraries
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/penn-state-university/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/pennsylvania-state-university-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/pennsylvania-state-university-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/pennsylvania-state-university-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com