University of St Andrews
Managing your research in Pure
V. 1
Website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/research/pure/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01334 46 2321
University of St Andrews
Managing your research in Pure
The University of St Andrews is committed to supporting research excellence. As part of this support, the
University has made available to its research staff, a web based research information system - Pure.
About Pure
Pure is a Research Information System which allows
you to record research outcomes, including:
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publications
activities
projects
datasets
impacts
Held together in one place, so you can re-use your
content on University and personal web pages.
Pure is integrated with several of the University’s
central systems so will automatically update some of
your core information for you, including funded award
and project details from the Research Funding system,
staff details from Human Resources and postgraduate
research student details from Registry.
Why use Pure?
Pure offers the flexibility to manage and re-use information on many research-related activities:
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Capture your research
publications, including open
access
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Record professional activities,
prizes, outreach and knowledge
exchange
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Increase the visibility of your
work via the St Andrews
research portal
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Publish your research data,
increase visibility and meet funder
requirements on open data
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Create and dynamically update
your CV as you add new content
to Pure
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Re-use your Pure content on other
websites via the Pure web services
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Capture and maintain impact
records and evidence of impact
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Help you meet funders’
requirements on open access for
publications
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Link your publications to projects
and save time reporting to
Researchfish (current pilot limited
to publications with DOIs)
Getting Started in Pure
Information from Pure links to the St Andrews Research Portal, http://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/, a public
gateway to University of St Andrews research information, and your personal profile within Pure is used to
populate this public space. To see how your profile looks in the portal, click the My portal profile link just below
your personal information. The portal will usually open in a new tab in your browser, but if not, you can return to
Pure by clicking the browser back arrow.
You can log into your Pure profile at:
It is your responsibility to maintain your profile in Pure.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/research/pure/
By keeping it up-to-date, you are keeping all the other
sites which may re-use your data up-to-date too, saving
you and your colleagues time and effort.
To login, use your university username and password
Editing your Profile
• From the Personal overview screen, click on the Edit profile button near your photo.
• The Person editor window opens.
• Scroll down to Curriculum and research description and the sub-heading Profile information.
If you have no data entered, you will see an Add profile information button. If you have existing text,
you can edit this by clicking the Edit button next to the text block.
If you have any queries, please contact: [email protected]
University of St Andrews
There are currently eight content types you can divide your profile information into:
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Research overview
Research interests
Academic/Professional Qualification
Future research
Industrial relevance
Other expertise
Projects from former institutions
Teaching activity
Choose the content type you require.
• Type your content into the text box.
Tip: The Research overview is displayed as part of
your public profile on the St Andrews Research Portal.
• To set the text click Create.
If you only have limited time, make sure this section
is current.
• Once you have made all your changes, click Save
in the bottom left of the Person editor window.
Choosing your Highlights
You can choose a selection of highlight publications and other content that you
wish to display first in your public portal profile. To do this:
• Click the green Add new button in the top right of the screen, select
Curriculum Vitae, and choose Highlighted Content CV.
• A highlighted content window will open; click on Add research output. You
can also add other content by clicking the appropriate content type.
Tip: If you take note of the titles of any outputs (or other content) you wish to add
before you open the highlights section, it will help speed up the process.
• Search for the output you wish to add and select it from the results by clicking the title. Once you have a few
highlights on your list, you can re-order them by clicking the arrows beside each title.
• When you are satisfied, tick the Publish box at bottom left, and click Save.
To check how the highlights look in your portal profile, click on My portal profile in the personal overview. You
can make changes to your highlights by returning to the highlight content window, editing the list and re-saving it.
Importing your existing publications
You can import existing publication data into Pure from a range of external sources, allowing you to fetch your
existing publications from online, currently Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), Pubmed, ADS and ArXiv; or from a file
e.g. BibTeX or RIS.
For this example, we will import a publication from Scopus
(Scopus includes citation tags, where available).
• From the Personal overview screen, click on the Add new
button at the top right.
• The Choose submission window opens.
Tip: By hovering your cursor over menu items in this window,
you can view explanatory text for each category.
Click on Research output in the left-hand navigation, then select
Import from online source.
A list of source options is displayed on the right. Select Scopus.
If you have any queries, please contact: [email protected]
University of St Andrews
Tip: Using Scopus will pull citation information into
Pure, if it is available, therefore we recommend use of
this import source where possible.
• Enter your name as the author, and/or your ORCID
iD, in the relevant search fields. You can use the
publication year fields to limit your search or add
St Andrews as your organisational unit.
• Click the Search button.
• Browse through the search results to locate your
publications.
• Click the Import button next to a publication you
wish to import.
• A list of the publication’s authors, with possible
matches for internal authors is provided, to match
any internal authors to the publication in Pure.
• Once you have checked all authors, click the
Import & review button.
• The information will be imported, with the
appropriate template automatically applied, and
the main editing window will open.
• Note that fields marked with a red asterisk (*)
are required and must be filled out. The import
process in most cases will complete these
automatically, however, if necessary you can add/
edit the information that has been imported.
Tip: Check each author carefully to ensure they are
matched correctly. If an author has been matched
incorrectly, you can change them by clicking on the
arrow next to their name and selecting the correct
option from the drop-down list.
Saving your content
When you add a new publication via Scopus, the publication state defaults to Published.
Note about Visibility: Within Pure, you have the ability to choose if your research output appears in the
St Andrews Research Portal, i.e. in the public domain. The default visibility is Public - No restriction.
To prevent a publication showing in the portal, select Backend - Restricted to PURE users.
Once you are happy with the information, added for the publication:
• Click the Save button. Repeat these steps to add further publications.
Import your content from a file
• From the Personal overview screen, click on the Add new button at the top right and the Choose submission
window opens.
• Click on Research output in the left-hand navigation, then select Import from a file. A list of source options
is displayed on the right. This example will follow a BibTeX file.
Getting your import file
You can export your output information from packages such as EndNote and online sites such as ADS
(Astrophysics) or DBLP (Computing). The way to export a file varies from package to package, please check your
particular source for guidance on how to export to BibTeX.
• Select BibTeX from the list of source options.
• You can either use the Browse button to locate
the BibTeX file you wish to import or paste the
BibTeX code directly into the Paste text box.
• Check the results to locate the
relevant publication.
• Click the Import button next
to the publication you wish to
import.
• As with importing from an
online source, check each author
carefully to ensure they are
matched correctly, and follow the
same steps to fix any anomalies.
If you have any queries, please contact: [email protected]
University of St Andrews
Saving content
When you add new research output the default publication state for the item is Published. You can change this by
clicking on the Edit button next to the Publication statuses and dates field or add further publication status and
dates by clicking the Add publication status and date button.
REMEMBER: Always click the Save button before you exit.
Research Data
Open Access for publications
Pure also enables you to publish your research data,
increasing the visibility of your work and helping you
meet funders’ requirements.
Pure is the tool used by the University to implement
Open Access for research publications wherever
possible and as encouraged by VP Research. It is
the responsibility of authors to deposit accepted
manuscripts in Pure as soon as possible after
acceptance, and within 3 months at the latest.
If you need advice on research data management,
including data management planning, funder
compliance, open data and long-term preservation,
please visit:
http://researchdata.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
or contact the research data team in the Library via:
[email protected]
Impact
Pure can help you
record the steps
towards your
impact narrative by
capturing discrete
impact ‘records’ that
inform your story.
Make sure your work is eligible for the next REF by
entering the details of your publications into Pure
and at the same time uploading your accepted
manuscripts for journal articles and proceedings in
Pure along with the full date of acceptance.
In the relevant template, click ‘Add electronic version(s)
of this work’ to upload the accepted manuscript (Do not
upload proofs or final published versions].
Follow the St Andrews Impact blog at:
http://univstandrews-impact.blogspot.co.uk/
As well as meeting REF and funders’ requirements,
Open Access to publications increases visibility and has
the potential for your work to reach wider audiences.
Web Services
Once you have entered content into Pure, it can be
re-used in many different places, such as school and
personal web pages. For more information contact:
The Library can advise on all aspects of Open Access.
[email protected]
More details: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/
services/researchsupport/openaccess/
Researchfish
Contact: [email protected]
If you are an RCUK grant holder you will be required to feedback the outcomes from your grant to
Researchfish. The University of St Andrews is part of a pilot to upload publications directly from
Pure into Researchfish. To ensure your publications are part of the pilot make sure you have made the link to your
RCUK award in the relations section of your publication. For further guidance on Pure for Researchfish see:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/research/managing/recordingyourresearchoutcomesforrcuk/
For more information on Researchfish and your reporting responsibilities to RCUK, see:
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/researchoutcomes/
Contact Us
If you have any queries, please contact the
Digital Research team:
[email protected]
Or call us on: 01334 46 2321
If you have any queries, please contact: [email protected]