Lancaster University

Lancaster Research Directory (Elsevier Pure) — tenant

Lancaster's research information system and public research directory. The data — outputs, people, projects, impact — is Lancaster's; the platform and the contract are Elsevier's. research.lancaster-university.uk CNAMEs to lancaster.elsevierpure.com, and Pure's /ws/api web service answers on the tenant host but rejects unversioned calls. Pure's generic OpenAPI is deliberately NOT saved under this slug: an Elsevier Pure contract attributed to the institution is the single largest source of the misattribution the university pipeline exists to prevent, and it is exactly how Manchester ended up wearing 36 Pure specs.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lancaster:pure-research-directory
name: Lancaster Research Directory (Elsevier Pure) — tenant
description: 'Lancaster''s research information system and public research directory. The data — outputs,
  people, projects, impact — is Lancaster''s; the platform and the contract are Elsevier''s. research.lancaster-university.uk
  CNAMEs to lancaster.elsevierpure.com, and Pure''s /ws/api web service answers on the tenant host but
  rejects unversioned calls. Pure''s generic OpenAPI is deliberately NOT saved under this slug: an Elsevier
  Pure contract attributed to the institution is the single largest source of the misattribution the university
  pipeline exists to prevent, and it is exactly how Manchester ended up wearing 36 Pure specs.'
humanURL: https://research.lancaster-university.uk/
baseURL: https://research.lancaster-university.uk/ws/api
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Probed 2026-08-30. https://research.lancaster-university.uk/ 200; DNS resolves research.lancaster-university.uk
  CNAME lancaster.elsevierpure.com CNAME eu.prod.elsevierpure.com. The page markup carries Elsevier and
  Pure branding. GET /ws/api answers HTTP 500 with the JSON body {"timestamp":1788121079344,"status":999,"error":"None"}
  — Pure's web service is present and version-gated, live rather than dead. Institution vanity hostname,
  vendor platform, vendor contract.
x-vendor: Elsevier (Pure)
tags:
- Research Information
- Pure
- Research Data
- CRIS
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://research.lancaster-university.uk/