King's College London

King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH

The standards-based harvesting interface for the King's Research Portal, the front end of Pure — how King's research outputs reach OpenAIRE, CORE, BASE and the rest of the aggregator layer. Identify returns repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2014-10-22, granularity to the second and deletedRecord no. ListMetadataFormats returns six prefixes — oai_dc, qdc, mods, uketd_dc, xmetadiss and nl_didl, the fourth being the UK electronic theses profile. ListSets returns persons:all, publications:all, publications:withFiles and a per-year publication set running from 1972. The envelope declares the OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile. Fully open, no credential. A legacy path at /ws/OAIHandler answers 405; the canonical base URL is /ws/oai. No OpenAPI is saved: the protocol is OAI's and the implementation is Elsevier's.

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Documentation

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APIReference
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
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Documentation
https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Other Resources

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Website
https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kings-college-london/refs/heads/main/conformance/kings-college-london-education-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kings-college-london:pure-oai
name: King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'kclpure.kcl.ac.uk is a CNAME to kings.elsevierpure.com -> eu.prod.elsevierpure.com
  (-> cloudflare). That is a platform CNAME, not a CDN in front of a King''s origin: the repository software,
  the hosting and the OAI implementation are Elsevier Pure''s. The records, the adminEmail puresupport@kcl.ac.uk
  and the 50-year publication history are King''s.'
description: 'The standards-based harvesting interface for the King''s Research Portal, the front end
  of Pure — how King''s research outputs reach OpenAIRE, CORE, BASE and the rest of the aggregator layer.
  Identify returns repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository", protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2014-10-22,
  granularity to the second and deletedRecord no. ListMetadataFormats returns six prefixes — oai_dc, qdc,
  mods, uketd_dc, xmetadiss and nl_didl, the fourth being the UK electronic theses profile. ListSets returns
  persons:all, publications:all, publications:withFiles and a per-year publication set running from 1972.
  The envelope declares the OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile. Fully open, no credential. A legacy path at /ws/OAIHandler
  answers 405; the canonical base URL is /ws/oai. No OpenAPI is saved: the protocol is OAI''s and the
  implementation is Elsevier''s.'
humanURL: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/explore/kings-research-portal
baseURL: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/oai
tags:
- Research
- OAI-PMH
- Institutional Repository
- Metadata Harvesting
- Pure
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Website
  url: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kings-college-london-education-standards.yml