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name: Queen's University Belfast
description: Queen's University Belfast public developer/API footprint review for APIs.json cataloging.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/queens-university-belfast/refs/heads/main/review.yml
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
reviews:
  - date: '2026-06-03'
    rating: 2
    summary: >-
      Queen's University Belfast has a thin public API surface. The one
      confirmed, openly accessible programmatic interface is the Elsevier Pure
      Research Portal OAI-PMH endpoint, which I verified live (ListMetadataFormats
      returned valid OAI-PMH XML advertising oai_dc and OpenAIRE CERIF formats).
      No dedicated developer portal, no open REST API catalog, and no SignUp/API
      key flow were found. Student, applications, and library (Alma/Primo)
      systems are authentication-gated with no public docs. The Qmulus open data
      API belongs to Queen's University in Canada, not Belfast, and was excluded
      to avoid fabrication. Rating reflects a single niche research-metadata API.
    endpoints:
      - url: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
        status: 200
        note: Live OAI-PMH endpoint; returns valid XML with oai_dc and CERIF formats.
      - url: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/oai
        status: 200
        note: Base OAI-PMH endpoint for the Pure Research Portal resolves.
      - url: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
        status: 500
        note: Bare Identify verb errors on this Pure instance; other verbs work.
      - url: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/
        status: 200
        note: Public human-facing Research Portal (Pure) homepage.
      - url: https://www.qub.ac.uk/
        status: 403
        note: Official site live but bot-blocks automated requests; not an API.
      - url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/queen's-university-belfast/
        status: 200
        note: Official university LinkedIn school page.