Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Clarivate Converis Web Service — FAU CRIS deployment

FAU CRIS is the university's research information system, holding 146,000+ publications and 5,200+ projects and syndicating data to more than a thousand FAU websites. The data is FAU's; the CONTRACT is not. The system is Clarivate Converis, and the /converis/ws/public/... web-service paths it exposes are a Converis product feature shipped to every Converis customer. Verified live on 2026-08-30: https://cris.fau.de/ returns HTTP 200 and https://cris.fau.de/converis/ws/public/infoobject/getStartFunding returns HTTP 403 — the path exists but is access-restricted on FAU's instance. The host resolves inside FAU's own network, so the deployment is self-hosted, but the surface is recorded as a tenant relationship and no Clarivate specification is saved under FAU's name. That is the misattribution this pipeline exists to prevent.

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https://www.fau.eu/research/services-for-researchers/research-information-system/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:cris-converis-ws
name: Clarivate Converis Web Service — FAU CRIS deployment
x-operator: tenant
description: 'FAU CRIS is the university''s research information system, holding 146,000+ publications
  and 5,200+ projects and syndicating data to more than a thousand FAU websites. The data is FAU''s; the
  CONTRACT is not. The system is Clarivate Converis, and the /converis/ws/public/... web-service paths
  it exposes are a Converis product feature shipped to every Converis customer. Verified live on 2026-08-30:
  https://cris.fau.de/ returns HTTP 200 and https://cris.fau.de/converis/ws/public/infoobject/getStartFunding
  returns HTTP 403 — the path exists but is access-restricted on FAU''s instance. The host resolves inside
  FAU''s own network, so the deployment is self-hosted, but the surface is recorded as a tenant relationship
  and no Clarivate specification is saved under FAU''s name. That is the misattribution this pipeline
  exists to prevent.'
humanURL: https://cris.fau.de/
baseURL: https://cris.fau.de/converis/ws/public
tags:
- Research Information
- CRIS
- Converis
- Vendor Contract
- Restricted
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.fau.eu/research/services-for-researchers/research-information-system/