Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint

Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the QUB Research Portal. Identify returns repositoryName "QUB Research Portal" with adminEmail puresupport@qub.ac.uk and an earliest datestamp of 2016-04-05. Six metadata formats are offered (oai_dc, qdc, mods, uketd_dc, xmetadiss, nl_didl) across persons and publications sets, including per-year publication sets from 1970 forward. The metadata described is Queen's; the repository software and the host are Elsevier Pure's, so this is recorded as a tenant deployment of an open protocol rather than as a QUB-authored interface.

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Documentation
https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-belfast/refs/heads/main/conformance/queens-university-belfast-conformance.yml
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HumanURL
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: queens-university-belfast:research-portal-oai
name: Queen's University Belfast Research Portal — OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint
description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting endpoint for the QUB Research Portal. Identify returns
  repositoryName "QUB Research Portal" with adminEmail puresupport@qub.ac.uk and an earliest datestamp
  of 2016-04-05. Six metadata formats are offered (oai_dc, qdc, mods, uketd_dc, xmetadiss, nl_didl) across
  persons and publications sets, including per-year publication sets from 1970 forward. The metadata described
  is Queen's; the repository software and the host are Elsevier Pure's, so this is recorded as a tenant
  deployment of an open protocol rather than as a QUB-authored interface.
humanURL: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/oai
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: pureadmin.qub.ac.uk CNAMEs to qub-pva.elsevierpure.com -> eu.prod.elsevierpure.com.
  Institution-specific vanity hostname on Elsevier's Pure platform. Identify probed 2026-08-30, HTTP 200.
x-vendor: Elsevier Pure
tags:
- Research
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
- Metadata
- Pure
properties:
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/queens-university-belfast-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: HumanURL
  url: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/