Heriot-Watt University

Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Elsevier Pure)

Heriot-Watt's public research information portal — publications, projects, research data, activities and researcher profiles. It carries a hw.ac.uk hostname but is not institution-operated infrastructure: researchportal.hw.ac.uk is a CNAME to hwu.elsevierpure.com and on to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, an Elsevier-hosted Pure tenancy. The data, the DOIs (prefix 10.17861, registered through DataCite client BL.HWU) and the landing pages are Heriot-Watt's; the contract is Elsevier's. Pure's OAI-PMH and REST platform features are not open here — /ws/oai and /admin/oai return HTTP 500 with a {"status":999} body, /ws/api and /ws/rest return 404, and /en/organisations/ is bot-challenged with 403 — so nothing programmatic is publicly reachable without an institutional arrangement. No Pure specification is saved under this institution.

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Documentation
https://www.hw.ac.uk/research-enterprise/research/research-environment/research-portal

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ResearchRepository
https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: heriot-watt:research-portal
name: Heriot-Watt Research Portal (Elsevier Pure)
description: 'Heriot-Watt''s public research information portal — publications, projects, research data,
  activities and researcher profiles. It carries a hw.ac.uk hostname but is not institution-operated infrastructure:
  researchportal.hw.ac.uk is a CNAME to hwu.elsevierpure.com and on to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, an Elsevier-hosted
  Pure tenancy. The data, the DOIs (prefix 10.17861, registered through DataCite client BL.HWU) and the
  landing pages are Heriot-Watt''s; the contract is Elsevier''s. Pure''s OAI-PMH and REST platform features
  are not open here — /ws/oai and /admin/oai return HTTP 500 with a {"status":999} body, /ws/api and /ws/rest
  return 404, and /en/organisations/ is bot-challenged with 403 — so nothing programmatic is publicly
  reachable without an institutional arrangement. No Pure specification is saved under this institution.'
humanURL: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/
x-operator: tenant
x-platform: Elsevier Pure
x-vendor-host: hwu.elsevierpure.com
tags:
- Research
- Repository
- Pure
- Open Access
- Publications
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.hw.ac.uk/research-enterprise/research/research-environment/research-portal
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/