University of Bristol

Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of Bristol tenancy)

TENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A BRISTOL CONTRACT. Bristol runs Elsevier Pure as its research information system, and Pure's product API answers on Bristol's own host at research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api. The data is Bristol's; the contract is Elsevier's. The live OpenAPI at /ws/api/openapi.json (200, 1,740,065 bytes) declares info.title "Pure API", info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com, version 5.35.3-4 and a RELATIVE servers[] entry of /ws/api across 826 paths — a hostless spec that a host-based verdict cannot classify, which is exactly the class this pipeline exists to catch. Access is api-key gated with no self-serve issuance: GET /ws/api/524/research-outputs returned 401. Per pipeline-university.md the relationship is recorded and the vendor's contract is NOT saved under this institution's slug; it belongs to Elsevier's own repo. A hand-authored 493-line subset of it, plus twenty-nine artifacts derived from it, were removed from this repository on 2026-08-30 — see x-attribution-correction.

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https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html

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Authentication

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-bristol-authentication.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-bristol:pure-web-services
name: Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of Bristol tenancy)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'TENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A BRISTOL CONTRACT. Bristol runs Elsevier Pure as its research
  information system, and Pure''s product API answers on Bristol''s own host at research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api.
  The data is Bristol''s; the contract is Elsevier''s. The live OpenAPI at /ws/api/openapi.json (200,
  1,740,065 bytes) declares info.title "Pure API", info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com, version
  5.35.3-4 and a RELATIVE servers[] entry of /ws/api across 826 paths — a hostless spec that a host-based
  verdict cannot classify, which is exactly the class this pipeline exists to catch. Access is api-key
  gated with no self-serve issuance: GET /ws/api/524/research-outputs returned 401. Per pipeline-university.md
  the relationship is recorded and the vendor''s contract is NOT saved under this institution''s slug;
  it belongs to Elsevier''s own repo. A hand-authored 493-line subset of it, plus twenty-nine artifacts
  derived from it, were removed from this repository on 2026-08-30 — see x-attribution-correction.'
humanURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
baseURL: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- Research Information
- Elsevier Pure
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-bristol-authentication.yml