API Evangelist overlay for Elsevier Retrieval APIs

overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist overlay for Elsevier Retrieval APIs
  version: 1.0.0
  x-generated: '2026-09-06'
  x-method: generated
  x-source: openapi/elsevier-retrieval-swagger.json
  x-note: Enhancements API Evangelist adds on top of the provider contract. The provider document is never
    mutated; apply this overlay to get the enriched view.
extends: openapi/elsevier-retrieval-swagger.json
actions:
- target: $.info
  description: Attach the contact and licence facts Elsevier publishes on its developer portal but leaves
    out of the contract.
  update:
    contact:
      name: Elsevier Research Products APIs Support
      url: https://service.elsevier.com/app/contact/supporthub/researchproductsapis/
    termsOfService: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_service_agreement.html
    x-documentation: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
    x-rate-limits: https://dev.elsevier.com/api_key_settings.html
- target: $
  description: Elsevier ships these as Swagger 2.0 with no securityDefinitions at all. Declare the four
    credentials its own WADL contracts and auth guide document.
  update:
    securityDefinitions:
      apiKeyHeader:
        type: apiKey
        name: X-ELS-APIKey
        in: header
        description: Required on every request.
      authtoken:
        type: apiKey
        name: X-ELS-Authtoken
        in: header
        description: Two-hour token from GET /authenticate?platform=SCOPUS.
      insttoken:
        type: apiKey
        name: X-ELS-Insttoken
        in: header
        description: Institutional Token issued by Elsevier for remote access. Server-side only.
      resourceVersion:
        type: apiKey
        name: X-ELS-ResourceVersion
        in: header
        description: Per-resource version negotiation. Elsevier publishes no list of acceptable values.
- target: $
  description: 'Record the entitlement model, which is the single most misread thing about this API: the
    key authenticates the application, the institutional IP or token decides what content comes back.'
  update:
    x-entitlement:
      model: institutional
      resolved_by:
      - institutional-ip
      - X-ELS-Authtoken
      - X-ELS-Insttoken
      note: A valid API key called from outside the subscribing institution returns 401/403 for subscriber-only
        content.
      reference: https://dev.elsevier.com/tecdoc_api_authentication.html
- target: $
  description: Record the runtime rate-limit signalling Elsevier documents on its key-settings page but
    never puts in a contract.
  update:
    x-rate-limit-headers:
      limit: X-RateLimit-Limit
      remaining: X-RateLimit-Remaining
      reset: X-RateLimit-Reset
      reset_format: unix-seconds
      status: X-ELS-Status
      exhausted_status: 429
      retry_after: null
- target: $
  description: Record the two proprietary error envelopes observed in production, neither of which is
    RFC 9457.
  update:
    x-error-envelopes:
    - '{"service-error":{"status":{"statusCode":"...","statusText":"..."}}}'
    - '{"error-response":{"error-code":"...","error-message":"..."}}'
    x-error-catalog: errors/elsevier-problem-types.yml
- target: $
  description: Record the TDM reservation Elsevier attaches to every response of this API.
  update:
    x-tdm:
      reservation: 1
      policy: https://www.elsevier.com/tdm/tdmrep-policy.json
      manifest: https://www.elsevier.com/.well-known/tdmrep.json
      signalled_in: response headers on every call, including errors
- target: $
  description: Cross-link the derived artifacts so a consumer of this contract can find the semantics
    that are not in it.
  update:
    x-apievangelist-artifacts:
      authentication: authentication/elsevier-authentication.yml
      conventions: conventions/elsevier-conventions.yml
      errors: errors/elsevier-problem-types.yml
      lifecycle: lifecycle/elsevier-lifecycle.yml
      rate_limits: rate-limits/elsevier-rate-limits.yml
      conformance: conformance/elsevier-conformance.yml
      data_model: data-model/elsevier-data-model.yml
      wadl: wadl/_index.yml