University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant

Edinburgh Research Explorer is the University's public research information portal, running on Elsevier Pure. The research outputs, the people and the DOIs are Edinburgh's; the API contract is Elsevier's and belongs on Elsevier's own record. Recorded here as a real tenant relationship rather than deleted or credited. The Pure OAI-PMH endpoint returned HTTP 500 on both www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/oai and www.research.ed.ac.uk/ws/oai when probed on 2026-08-19, so the harvesting surface is currently broken; the previous dead pointer to it has been removed.

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-edinburgh:pure-research-explorer
name: Edinburgh Research Explorer (Elsevier Pure) — tenant
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: www.pure.ed.ac.uk is an Edinburgh-branded subdomain running Elsevier Pure; https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/api
  canonicalises to https://api.elsevierpure.com/ws/api/index.html, so the contract is Elsevier's and is
  not saved under this institution.
description: Edinburgh Research Explorer is the University's public research information portal, running
  on Elsevier Pure. The research outputs, the people and the DOIs are Edinburgh's; the API contract is
  Elsevier's and belongs on Elsevier's own record. Recorded here as a real tenant relationship rather
  than deleted or credited. The Pure OAI-PMH endpoint returned HTTP 500 on both www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/oai
  and www.research.ed.ac.uk/ws/oai when probed on 2026-08-19, so the harvesting surface is currently broken;
  the previous dead pointer to it has been removed.
humanURL: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research Outputs
- CRIS
- Tenant
- Vendor Platform
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/