Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH

HBKU's research information system, Elmi, runs Elsevier Pure on the university's own subdomain and exposes a public, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai. Confirmed by the protocol handshake on 2026-08-30, not by link presence: ?verb=Identify returns a valid envelope declaring adminEmail elmi@hbku.edu.qa, protocolVersion 2.0 and earliestDatestamp 2024-07-18; ?verb=ListMetadataFormats offers oai_dc, qdc, mods, mods_swepub, nl_didl, xmetadiss and uketd_dc; ?verb=ListSets offers persons:all, publications:all, publications:withFiles and per-year sets; a ListRecords call returned 96KB of records with no credential. This is the one education-regime domain standard HBKU meets. Marked tenant because the software is Elsevier's (repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", and the Pure REST API at /ws/api canonicalizes to api.elsevierpure.com) — the metadata is HBKU's, the contract is not. Elsevier's Pure REST API on the same host requires an API key (401 on /ws/api/persons) and no Pure specification is stored under this slug.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: hbku:elmi-oai-pmh
name: Elmi Research Portal — OAI-PMH
x-operator: tenant
description: 'HBKU''s research information system, Elmi, runs Elsevier Pure on the university''s own subdomain
  and exposes a public, unauthenticated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint at elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai. Confirmed
  by the protocol handshake on 2026-08-30, not by link presence: ?verb=Identify returns a valid envelope
  declaring adminEmail elmi@hbku.edu.qa, protocolVersion 2.0 and earliestDatestamp 2024-07-18; ?verb=ListMetadataFormats
  offers oai_dc, qdc, mods, mods_swepub, nl_didl, xmetadiss and uketd_dc; ?verb=ListSets offers persons:all,
  publications:all, publications:withFiles and per-year sets; a ListRecords call returned 96KB of records
  with no credential. This is the one education-regime domain standard HBKU meets. Marked tenant because
  the software is Elsevier''s (repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", and the Pure REST API at /ws/api
  canonicalizes to api.elsevierpure.com) — the metadata is HBKU''s, the contract is not. Elsevier''s Pure
  REST API on the same host requires an API key (401 on /ws/api/persons) and no Pure specification is
  stored under this slug.'
humanURL: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/
baseURL: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/ws/oai
tags:
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Harvesting
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hbku-education-standards.yml