# TAU Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) OAI-PMH

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/cris-oai-pmh/  
**Provider:** Tel Aviv University — https://apis.io/providers/tel-aviv-university/  
**Base URL:** https://cris.tau.ac.il/ws/oai  
**Documentation:** https://cris.tau.ac.il/

TAU Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) OAI-PMH is one of 5 APIs that [Tel Aviv University](https://apis.io/providers/tel-aviv-university/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, CRIS, OAI-PMH, Pure, and Elsevier.

Tel Aviv University's current research information system is Elsevier Pure, published as the TAU Research Portal at cris.tau.ac.il. The host sits on TAU's own registrable domain but CNAMEs to telaviv.elsevierpure.com and then to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, and the deployment does not self-identify as TAU: Identify returns repositoryName "Pure OAI Repository" with adminEmail purehosted@elsevier.com, earliestDatestamp 2020-03-22. That makes it a hosted vendor deployment under the institution's name — a tenant relationship — rather than an institution-operated service. The OAI-PMH endpoint itself is live and keyless (verified 2026-08-30) and serves seven metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mods_swepub, nl_didl, xmetadiss, uketd_dc) across persons:all, publications:all and per-year sets. The companion Pure Web Service at cris.tau.ac.il/ws/api is gated — it returns HTTP 401 "Please provide a valid API key" — and its contract is Elsevier's, so no Pure specification is stored here.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Website** — https://cris.tau.ac.il/
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tel-aviv-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml

## Other Tel Aviv University APIs (4)

- [TAU Libraries Alma OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/alma-oai-pmh/)
- [TAU Libraries Alma SRU Search](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/alma-sru/)
- [TAU Libraries Primo VE Discovery (DaTA Search)](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/primo-discovery/)
- [TAU SAML Identity in the IUCC Identity Federation](https://apis.io/apis/tel-aviv-university/iucc-identity-federation/)

## Tags

Research Repository, CRIS, OAI-PMH, Pure, Elsevier, Publications

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