Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast Pure API deployment (Elsevier Pure tenancy)

The QUB tenancy of the Elsevier Pure Web Service API. The deployment is real and callable at https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api — an unauthenticated request returns HTTP 401 "Full authentication is required to access this resource" — and the tenancy currently runs Pure 5.36.2-1. The contract, however, is Elsevier's: the OpenAPI the host serves is titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com. No copy of that spec is kept in this repository; the relationship is recorded here and the contract belongs against Elsevier Pure's own profile.

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Documentation
https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html

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HumanURL
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: queens-university-belfast:pure-web-service-api
name: Queen's University Belfast Pure API deployment (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
description: 'The QUB tenancy of the Elsevier Pure Web Service API. The deployment is real and callable
  at https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api — an unauthenticated request returns HTTP 401 "Full authentication
  is required to access this resource" — and the tenancy currently runs Pure 5.36.2-1. The contract, however,
  is Elsevier''s: the OpenAPI the host serves is titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com.
  No copy of that spec is kept in this repository; the relationship is recorded here and the contract
  belongs against Elsevier Pure''s own profile.'
humanURL: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html
baseURL: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: info.title "Pure API", info.contact pure-support@elsevier.com, version 5.36.2-1 as
  served live at https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api/openapi.json (200). Host CNAMEs to qub-pva.elsevierpure.com.
  Anonymous call to /ws/api/research-outputs returns 401. Probed 2026-08-30.
x-vendor: Elsevier Pure
x-spec-not-saved: Deliberately not saved. Keeping it would credit Queen's with Elsevier's engineering
  — the exact misattribution this pipeline exists to prevent.
tags:
- Research Information
- CRIS
- Pure
- Research Repository
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html
- type: HumanURL
  url: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/