University of Bath

Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) Web Service — Bath tenancy

The University's Elsevier Pure research information system exposes the Pure Web Service under a Bath hostname. The DEPLOYMENT is Bath's and the data is Bath's; the CONTRACT is Elsevier's. purehost.bath.ac.uk CNAMEs to bath-prod.elsevierpure.com and then eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, and the OpenAPI it serves is titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com and a relative server of /ws/api — the identical document nine other institutions in this cohort also shipped as their own. Confirmed live 2026-08-30: the documentation index returns 200 and /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns 401 "Please provide a valid API key for access". The contract is deliberately NOT stored in this repo; it belongs to Elsevier Pure.

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https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-bath:pure-ws-api
name: Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) Web Service — Bath tenancy
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The University''s Elsevier Pure research information system exposes the Pure Web Service
  under a Bath hostname. The DEPLOYMENT is Bath''s and the data is Bath''s; the CONTRACT is Elsevier''s.
  purehost.bath.ac.uk CNAMEs to bath-prod.elsevierpure.com and then eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, and the
  OpenAPI it serves is titled "Pure API" with contact pure-support@elsevier.com and a relative server
  of /ws/api — the identical document nine other institutions in this cohort also shipped as their own.
  Confirmed live 2026-08-30: the documentation index returns 200 and /ws/api/524/openapi.yaml returns
  401 "Please provide a valid API key for access". The contract is deliberately NOT stored in this repo;
  it belongs to Elsevier Pure.'
humanURL: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html
baseURL: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api
tags:
- Research
- Metadata
- Pure
- Elsevier
- Tenant
- Gated
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html