Queen's University Belfast

aid: queens-university-belfast
name: Queen's University Belfast
description: 'Queen''s University Belfast is a Russell Group research-intensive university in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom,
  founded in 1845, and ranked #206 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, machine-readable developer footprint
  is limited and centered on research dissemination: the Queen''s University Belfast Research Portal runs on Elsevier Pure
  and exposes an OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint for institutional research outputs, datasets, and theses. Most other digital
  services (student portal, applications portal, library discovery via Ex Libris Alma/Primo) are gated behind authentication
  and do not publish open developer documentation.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-belfast/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- United Kingdom
- Northern Ireland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: queens-university-belfast:research-portal-oai
  name: Queen's University Belfast Research Portal (Pure OAI-PMH)
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting endpoint for the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal, the institutional
    repository built on Elsevier Pure. It exposes research outputs, datasets, theses, and research activity metadata in standard
    OAI-PMH formats (including oai_dc and OpenAIRE CERIF). The endpoint responds to standard verbs such as ListMetadataFormats,
    ListRecords, ListSets, and GetRecord.
  humanURL: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Pure
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
  - type: HumanURL
    url: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
- aid: queens-university-belfast:pure-api
  name: Queen's University Belfast Research Portal (Pure REST API)
  description: The Elsevier Pure REST API deployed on the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal. It exposes a complete,
    machine-readable web services API (OpenAPI 3.0.1, Pure 5.35.3-4) for research information data — research outputs, persons,
    datasets, projects, activities, awards, organizations, and the classification schemes behind them. Requests are authenticated
    with an api-key security scheme.
  humanURL: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
  baseURL: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research
  - Pure
  - REST
  - OpenAPI
  - Repository
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/queens-university-belfast-pure-api.yaml
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/queens-university-belfast-research-output-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/queens-university-belfast-person-schema.json
  - type: x-json-schema
    url: json-schema/queens-university-belfast-dataset-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/queens-university-belfast-research-output-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/queens-university-belfast-person-structure.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/queens-university-belfast-dataset-structure.json
  - type: x-examples
    url: examples/queens-university-belfast-research-outputs-list-example.json
  - type: x-rules
    url: rules/queens-university-belfast-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/queens-university-belfast-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld
    url: json-ld/queens-university-belfast-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://doc.pure.elsevier.com/display/PureClient/Pure+API
  - type: HumanURL
    url: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.qub.ac.uk/
- type: ResearchPortal
  url: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/queen's-university-belfast/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/queens-university-belfast-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/queens-university-belfast-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/queens-university-belfast-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com