University of Birmingham

Elsevier Pure research portal (Birmingham tenancy)

research.birmingham.ac.uk is the University's research information portal. It is an Elsevier Pure tenancy — the hostname CNAMEs to birmingham-live.elsevierpure.com and on to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, and the served pages carry Pure and Elsevier branding throughout. The research records, the profiles and the DOIs are Birmingham's; the platform, the API contract and the engineering are Elsevier's. Pure's web-service endpoints are not open here: /ws/api and /ws/oai return 404 and 500 respectively to an unauthenticated caller. Recorded as a tenancy; no Pure contract is saved under this institution.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-birmingham:pure-research-portal
name: Elsevier Pure research portal (Birmingham tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'research.birmingham.ac.uk is the University''s research information portal. It is an Elsevier
  Pure tenancy — the hostname CNAMEs to birmingham-live.elsevierpure.com and on to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com,
  and the served pages carry Pure and Elsevier branding throughout. The research records, the profiles
  and the DOIs are Birmingham''s; the platform, the API contract and the engineering are Elsevier''s.
  Pure''s web-service endpoints are not open here: /ws/api and /ws/oai return 404 and 500 respectively
  to an unauthenticated caller. Recorded as a tenancy; no Pure contract is saved under this institution.'
humanURL: https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research Information
- Pure
- Elsevier
- Tenant
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/