University of Reading

Elsevier Pure Research Information System (tenant)

The University of Reading runs an Elsevier Pure instance at reading.elsevierpure.com, with a staging sibling at reading-staging.elsevierpure.com. Both returned 401 on 2026-09-01 — the tenancy is real but not publicly readable. Independently corroborated by DataCite, whose repository client pclw.bnuteb under the university's provider record is named "Pure" with URL reading-staging.elsevierpure.com. Recorded as a relationship only: the research information in it is Reading's, the API contract is Elsevier's, and no Pure specification is saved in this repository. This is the misattribution the university pipeline exists to prevent.

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https://reading.elsevierpure.com/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-reading:elsevier-pure-cris
name: Elsevier Pure Research Information System (tenant)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The University of Reading runs an Elsevier Pure instance at reading.elsevierpure.com, with
  a staging sibling at reading-staging.elsevierpure.com. Both returned 401 on 2026-09-01 — the tenancy
  is real but not publicly readable. Independently corroborated by DataCite, whose repository client pclw.bnuteb
  under the university''s provider record is named "Pure" with URL reading-staging.elsevierpure.com. Recorded
  as a relationship only: the research information in it is Reading''s, the API contract is Elsevier''s,
  and no Pure specification is saved in this repository. This is the misattribution the university pipeline
  exists to prevent.'
humanURL: https://reading.elsevierpure.com/
baseURL: https://reading.elsevierpure.com/
tags:
- CRIS
- Research Information
- Elsevier Pure
- Tenant
- Gated
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://reading.elsevierpure.com/