---
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  and do not publish open developer documentation.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
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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