# Library Search — Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma discovery tenancy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/primo-ve-discovery/  
**Provider:** Queen Mary University of London — https://apis.io/providers/queen-mary-university-of-london/  
**Base URL:** https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/view/sru/44QMUL_INST  
**Documentation:** https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/nde/home?vid=44QMUL_INST:44QMUL

Library Search — Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma discovery tenancy is one of 11 APIs that [Queen Mary University of London](https://apis.io/providers/queen-mary-university-of-london/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Discovery, SRU, MARC, and Ex Libris.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **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
- **LibraryCatalog** — https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/nde/home?vid=44QMUL_INST:44QMUL
- **x-configuration** — https://librarysearch.qmul.ac.uk/primaws/rest/pub/configuration/vid/44QMUL_INST:44QMUL

## Other Queen Mary University of London APIs (10)

- [Queen Mary Research Online (QMRO) — DSpace 8.4 REST API](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/qmro-dspace-rest/)
- [QMplus LTI 1.3 Advantage Tool Platform](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/qmplus-lti-platform/)
- [QMplus Moodle Web Services (REST)](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/qmplus-moodle-webservices/)
- [Shibboleth SAML Identity Provider (UK Access Management Federation)](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/shibboleth-saml-idp/)
- [Microsoft Entra ID Tenant — OpenID Connect Discovery](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/entra-id-tenant/)
- [Apocrita — Queen Mary Research Computing Service](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/apocrita-hpc/)
- [Queen Mary site and course search — SearchStax Solr tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/searchstax-site-search/)
- [DataCite member organisation and repository client](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/datacite-membership/)
- [Crossref member and DOI prefix](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/crossref-membership/)
- [ROR organisation identifier](https://apis.io/apis/queen-mary-university-of-london/ror-identifier/)

## Tags

Library, Discovery, SRU, MARC, Ex Libris, Primo

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