HKBU Scholars — Elsevier Pure tenancy (tenant relationship, contract not HKBU's)

HKBU Scholars is HKBU's research information portal and institutional repository, and it is an Elsevier Pure tenancy: scholars.hkbu.edu.hk is a CNAME to hkbu.elsevierpure.com, and repository.hkbu.edu.hk is an alias onto the same target. The Pure Web Service API answers at /ws/api — the versioned OpenAPI document at /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns 401 without a key, the RapiDoc console at /ws/api/rapidoc.html returns 200 and is titled "RapiDoc Pure API documentation", and the OAI-PMH endpoint at /ws/oai?verb=Identify returns 401. The records, DOIs and researcher profiles are HKBU's; the contract is Elsevier's. Thirty-three OpenAPI documents titled "Pure activity … API" version 5.35.0 with info.contact pure-support@elsevier.com were removed from this repository on 2026-08-30, together with all 64 collections, 3 JSON Schemas, 3 JSON Structures, 2 examples, the JSON-LD context, the vocabulary, both Spectral rulesets, the agentic-access map, the authentication summary, the capability edges and two refine reports derived from them — 115 files in all. Do not re-add them; the contract scores in Elsevier's repository.

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aid: hong-kong-baptist-university:scholars-pure-tenancy
name: HKBU Scholars — Elsevier Pure tenancy (tenant relationship, contract not HKBU's)
description: 'HKBU Scholars is HKBU''s research information portal and institutional repository, and it
  is an Elsevier Pure tenancy: scholars.hkbu.edu.hk is a CNAME to hkbu.elsevierpure.com, and repository.hkbu.edu.hk
  is an alias onto the same target. The Pure Web Service API answers at /ws/api — the versioned OpenAPI
  document at /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns 401 without a key, the RapiDoc console at /ws/api/rapidoc.html
  returns 200 and is titled "RapiDoc Pure API documentation", and the OAI-PMH endpoint at /ws/oai?verb=Identify
  returns 401. The records, DOIs and researcher profiles are HKBU''s; the contract is Elsevier''s. Thirty-three
  OpenAPI documents titled "Pure activity … API" version 5.35.0 with info.contact pure-support@elsevier.com
  were removed from this repository on 2026-08-30, together with all 64 collections, 3 JSON Schemas, 3
  JSON Structures, 2 examples, the JSON-LD context, the vocabulary, both Spectral rulesets, the agentic-access
  map, the authentication summary, the capability edges and two refine reports derived from them — 115
  files in all. Do not re-add them; the contract scores in Elsevier''s repository.'
x-operator: tenant
humanURL: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/
baseURL: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/
tags:
- Research Information
- Research Repository
- Elsevier Pure
- OAI-PMH
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/ws/api/rapidoc.html
x-vendor: Elsevier
x-vendor-product: Pure Web Service API 5.35.0
x-tenant-host: hkbu.elsevierpure.com