University of St Andrews

St Andrews Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)

research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk is the University's research information system and public research portal, running on Elsevier Pure - the host CNAMEs to standrews.elsevierpure.com. The research record, the outputs, the projects and the dataset DOIs are St Andrews'; the API and the portal software are Elsevier's, so this is recorded as the tenant relationship it is and no Pure contract is saved under this slug. It belongs to all/elsevier. This entry also corrects a dead pointer carried since the June 2026 profile: the Pure OAI-PMH endpoint previously recorded at https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai no longer exists - risweb 301-redirects to the portal home page, and https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai 301-redirects to /error/. No Pure web-service endpoint is publicly reachable.

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https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/support/pure/
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Documentation
https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.standrew

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-st-andrews:research-portal
name: St Andrews Research Portal (Elsevier Pure tenancy)
description: 'research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk is the University''s research information system and public
  research portal, running on Elsevier Pure - the host CNAMEs to standrews.elsevierpure.com. The research
  record, the outputs, the projects and the dataset DOIs are St Andrews''; the API and the portal software
  are Elsevier''s, so this is recorded as the tenant relationship it is and no Pure contract is saved
  under this slug. It belongs to all/elsevier. This entry also corrects a dead pointer carried since the
  June 2026 profile: the Pure OAI-PMH endpoint previously recorded at https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai
  no longer exists - risweb 301-redirects to the portal home page, and https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/ws/oai
  301-redirects to /error/. No Pure web-service endpoint is publicly reachable.'
humanURL: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/
x-operator: tenant
x-platform: Elsevier Pure
x-vendor-repo: all/elsevier
x-liveness: live-2026-09-01
tags:
- Research
- Research Information
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/research/support/pure/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.datacite.org/clients/bl.standrew