# Lancaster Research Directory (Elsevier Pure) — tenant

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/lancaster/pure-research-directory/  
**Provider:** Lancaster University — https://apis.io/providers/lancaster/  
**Base URL:** https://research.lancaster-university.uk/ws/api  
**Documentation:** https://research.lancaster-university.uk/

Lancaster Research Directory (Elsevier Pure) — tenant is one of 5 APIs that [Lancaster University](https://apis.io/providers/lancaster/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Information, Pure, Research Data, and CRIS. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://research.lancaster-university.uk/

## Other Lancaster University APIs (4)

- [Lancaster EPrints OAI-PMH 2.0 Interface](https://apis.io/apis/lancaster/lancaster-oai2-api/)
- [Lancaster Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/lancaster/identity-federation/)
- [Lancaster Library Discovery and Services (Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/lancaster/library-discovery/)
- [Lancaster Library Alma Webhook Handler (open source)](https://apis.io/apis/lancaster/alma-webhook-handler/)

## Tags

Research Information, Pure, Research Data, CRIS

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/lancaster/pure-research-directory/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/lancaster/.