Queen Mary University of London

Library Search — Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma discovery tenancy

Queen Mary's library discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo VE over Alma, fronted by the vanity host librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to qmul.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and on to eu06.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Two endpoints answer unauthenticated and are scoped to Queen Mary: the Primo public configuration API for view 44QMUL_INST:44QMUL, which returns 161KB of JSON naming the institution and its customer code, and the Alma SRU 1.2 searchRetrieve endpoint, which returned 84,622 MARCXML records for a live query. This is recorded as a tenancy, not as Queen Mary's contract: the data and the catalogue are the university's, the API is Ex Libris'. No Ex Libris specification is saved under this slug.

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x-examples
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queen-mary-university-of-london/refs/heads/main/examples/queen-mary-university-of-london-librarysearch-sru-marcxml-example.xml
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LibraryCatalog
https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/nde/home?vid=44QMUL_INST:44QMUL
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x-configuration
https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/primaws/rest/pub/configuration/vid/44QMUL_INST:44QMUL

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: queen-mary-university-of-london:primo-ve-discovery
name: Library Search — Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma discovery tenancy
description: 'Queen Mary''s library discovery layer is Ex Libris Primo VE over Alma, fronted by the vanity
  host librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to qmul.primo.exlibrisgroup.com and on to eu06.primo.exlibrisgroup.com.
  Two endpoints answer unauthenticated and are scoped to Queen Mary: the Primo public configuration API
  for view 44QMUL_INST:44QMUL, which returns 161KB of JSON naming the institution and its customer code,
  and the Alma SRU 1.2 searchRetrieve endpoint, which returned 84,622 MARCXML records for a live query.
  This is recorded as a tenancy, not as Queen Mary''s contract: the data and the catalogue are the university''s,
  the API is Ex Libris''. No Ex Libris specification is saved under this slug.'
humanURL: https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/nde/home?vid=44QMUL_INST:44QMUL
baseURL: https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/view/sru/44QMUL_INST
tags:
- Library
- Discovery
- SRU
- MARC
- Ex Libris
- Primo
properties:
- type: x-examples
  url: examples/queen-mary-university-of-london-librarysearch-sru-marcxml-example.xml
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/nde/home?vid=44QMUL_INST:44QMUL
- type: x-configuration
  url: https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/primaws/rest/pub/configuration/vid/44QMUL_INST:44QMUL
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk CNAMEs to qmul.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. The configuration
  document self-declares institution.description "Queen Mary University of London" and customer-code 44QMUL_INST
  — an institution-specific account on a vendor platform, which is the definition of a tenant. A hostname-only
  verdict would have read this as institution-operated.
x-vendor: Ex Libris (Clarivate)
x-tenant-id: 44QMUL_INST
x-probe:
  baseURL_status: 200
  probed: '2026-09-01'
  note: SRU searchRetrieve 200, 6800 bytes text/xml, numberOfRecords 84622, recordSchema marcxml. Public
    configuration API 200, 161889 bytes application/json.