Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Elsevier Pure REST web service — VU Amsterdam deployment

VU Amsterdam's tenancy of the Elsevier Pure research information system, reachable at research.vu.nl/ws/api and API-key gated (GET /524/persons returns HTTP 401). The contract is Elsevier's, not VU's: info.title "Pure API", version 5.34.3, contact pure-support@elsevier.com, and at least nine other universities in this catalog ship the identical document. The 26 per-tag OpenAPIs and 70 derived artifacts that used to sit in this repository under VU's name were that one contract, and were removed on 2026-08-30. The relationship is recorded here because it is a real institutional fact — VU's research information, VU's host — but the engineering, and therefore the contract, belongs to Elsevier.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://research.vu.nl/ws/api/openapi.yaml
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Authentication
https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/web-service/harvesting-content-from-the-pure-web-services-changes

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:pure-web-service-deployment
name: Elsevier Pure REST web service — VU Amsterdam deployment
x-operator: tenant
description: 'VU Amsterdam''s tenancy of the Elsevier Pure research information system, reachable at research.vu.nl/ws/api
  and API-key gated (GET /524/persons returns HTTP 401). The contract is Elsevier''s, not VU''s: info.title
  "Pure API", version 5.34.3, contact pure-support@elsevier.com, and at least nine other universities
  in this catalog ship the identical document. The 26 per-tag OpenAPIs and 70 derived artifacts that used
  to sit in this repository under VU''s name were that one contract, and were removed on 2026-08-30. The
  relationship is recorded here because it is a real institutional fact — VU''s research information,
  VU''s host — but the engineering, and therefore the contract, belongs to Elsevier.'
humanURL: https://research.vu.nl/
baseURL: https://research.vu.nl/ws/api
tags:
- Research Information
- Elsevier Pure
- Tenant Deployment
- CRIS
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://research.vu.nl/ws/api/openapi.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: https://helpcenter.pure.elsevier.com/web-service/harvesting-content-from-the-pure-web-services-changes