University of Southampton

Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy

The University's tenancy of Elsevier Pure, its Current Research Information System, at pure.soton.ac.uk. Pure is now the system of record: researchers deposit into Pure and outputs flow onward to ePrints Soton for public display, and the University states ePrints is no longer available for login or deposit. All of that is Southampton's data and Southampton's administration on Elsevier's platform under Elsevier's contract, so it is recorded here as a relationship and the supplier's specification is not held under this slug. Unlike several peers in this cohort, this tenancy exposes no public web services: both /ws/oai and /ws/api returned HTTP 403 from an Elsevier-branded error page on 2026-08-30, and the portal itself redirects to Microsoft Entra ID SAML sign-in for the University's tenant. The migration of deposit from ePrints to Pure has therefore reduced the institution's public programmable surface rather than increased it.

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Documentation
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/researcher-support/pure.page

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ResearchRepository
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
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Lifecycle
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-southampton/refs/heads/main/lifecycle/university-of-southampton-lifecycle.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-southampton:pure-cris-tenancy
name: Elsevier Pure CRIS tenancy
description: 'The University''s tenancy of Elsevier Pure, its Current Research Information System, at
  pure.soton.ac.uk. Pure is now the system of record: researchers deposit into Pure and outputs flow onward
  to ePrints Soton for public display, and the University states ePrints is no longer available for login
  or deposit. All of that is Southampton''s data and Southampton''s administration on Elsevier''s platform
  under Elsevier''s contract, so it is recorded here as a relationship and the supplier''s specification
  is not held under this slug.


  Unlike several peers in this cohort, this tenancy exposes no public web services: both /ws/oai and /ws/api
  returned HTTP 403 from an Elsevier-branded error page on 2026-08-30, and the portal itself redirects
  to Microsoft Entra ID SAML sign-in for the University''s tenant. The migration of deposit from ePrints
  to Pure has therefore reduced the institution''s public programmable surface rather than increased it.'
humanURL: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/researcher-support/pure.page
baseURL: https://pure.soton.ac.uk/
tags:
- Research
- CRIS
- Pure
- Repository
- Metadata
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/researcher-support/pure.page
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/university-of-southampton-lifecycle.yml
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Elsevier (Pure)
x-operator-evidence: 'DNS: pure.soton.ac.uk CNAME soton.elsevierpure.com CNAME eu.prod.elsevierpure.com.
  The 403 error page is Elsevier-branded, styled with the ''Elsevier Sans'' typeface. The institution
  operates the tenancy; Elsevier operates the platform and authors the contract.'
x-probe:
  probed: '2026-08-30'
  baseURL_status: 200
  ws_oai_status: 403
  ws_api_status: 403
  note: Portal 200 is a redirect to login.microsoftonline.com SAML sign-in. No public API surface.