Maastricht University

Maastricht University Research Portal (Pure) REST API

The Elsevier Pure web service on the university's CRIS host. Its documentation page canonicalises to https://api.elsevierpure.com/ws/api/documentation/index.html and /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns 401, so the contract, the version numbering and the specification are all Elsevier's. Maastricht is the tenant and the data is Maastricht's research record. Recorded as a relationship; Elsevier's specification is deliberately not saved here.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/api

Other Resources

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Website
https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: maastricht:pure-ws-api
name: Maastricht University Research Portal (Pure) REST API
x-operator: tenant
description: The Elsevier Pure web service on the university's CRIS host. Its documentation page canonicalises
  to https://api.elsevierpure.com/ws/api/documentation/index.html and /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns
  401, so the contract, the version numbering and the specification are all Elsevier's. Maastricht is
  the tenant and the data is Maastricht's research record. Recorded as a relationship; Elsevier's specification
  is deliberately not saved here.
humanURL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/api
baseURL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/api
tags:
- CRIS
- Pure
- Elsevier
- Research
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/api
- type: Website
  url: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/