# Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of Bristol tenancy)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/pure-web-services/  
**Provider:** University of Bristol — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/  
**Base URL:** https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api  
**Documentation:** https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html

Elsevier Pure Web Services (University of Bristol tenancy) is one of 5 APIs that [University of Bristol](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-bristol/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Research Information, Elsevier Pure, and Tenant. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/api/524/api-docs/index.html
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bristol/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-bristol-authentication.yml

## Other University of Bristol APIs (4)

- [University of Bristol Research Portal OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/research-portal-oai-pmh/)
- [University of Bristol Identity Provider (Shibboleth / SAML 2.0)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/idp-shibboleth/)
- [data.bris Research Data Repository](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/data-bris-research-data-repository/)
- [University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-bristol/library-discovery-worldcat/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Research Information, Elsevier Pure, Tenant

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