# Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) Web Service — Bath tenancy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bath/pure-ws-api/  
**Provider:** University of Bath — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bath/  
**Base URL:** https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api  
**Documentation:** https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html

Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) Web Service — Bath tenancy is one of 5 APIs that [University of Bath](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bath/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research, Metadata, Pure, Elsevier, and Tenant. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://purehost.bath.ac.uk/ws/api/documentation/index.html

## Other University of Bath APIs (4)

- [Research Data Archive OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bath/researchdata-oai/)
- [Research Data Archive REST/XML](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bath/researchdata-rest/)
- [Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) OAI-PMH — Bath tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bath/pure-oai/)
- [Library Discovery (Ex Libris Alma/Primo) — Bath tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bath/primo-discovery/)

## Tags

Research, Metadata, Pure, Elsevier, Tenant, Gated

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