University of Groningen

University of Groningen Research Portal (Pure) REST API

The Elsevier Pure web service deployed on the University's CRIS host. Probed 2026-08-30: pure.rug.nl/ws/api redirects to /ws/api/documentation/index.html, whose rel=canonical is https://api.elsevierpure.com/ws/api/documentation/index.html — the contract, the version numbering, the documentation and the api-key scheme are all Elsevier's, and the archived source specification carried info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com. The University is the tenant and the data is the University's research record. Recorded here as a relationship; Elsevier's specification is deliberately not saved under this institution, and the thirty-seven per-tag splits of it that this repo carried until 2026-08-30 have been removed.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://pure.rug.nl/ws/api
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Documentation
https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-groningen/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-groningen-authentication.yml

Other Resources

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Website
https://research.rug.nl/

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-groningen:pure-ws-api
name: University of Groningen Research Portal (Pure) REST API
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The Elsevier Pure web service deployed on the University''s CRIS host. Probed 2026-08-30:
  pure.rug.nl/ws/api redirects to /ws/api/documentation/index.html, whose rel=canonical is https://api.elsevierpure.com/ws/api/documentation/index.html
  — the contract, the version numbering, the documentation and the api-key scheme are all Elsevier''s,
  and the archived source specification carried info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com. The University
  is the tenant and the data is the University''s research record. Recorded here as a relationship; Elsevier''s
  specification is deliberately not saved under this institution, and the thirty-seven per-tag splits
  of it that this repo carried until 2026-08-30 have been removed.'
humanURL: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
baseURL: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/api
tags:
- CRIS
- Pure
- Elsevier
- Research
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.rug.nl/library/support/pure/?lang=en
- type: Website
  url: https://research.rug.nl/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-groningen-authentication.yml