September 2024: Activity and Prize records displayed on the research portal
In response to user feedback, we have made Activity and Prize records visible on Research Portal. By default, all existing records have been set to not be displayed on the portal. You can choose to make your records visible by amending the record visibility settings in Pure. See guidance on adding Activities and Prizes.
September 2024: Fingerprinting engine has been updated
Elsevier Fingerprint Engine as used by Pure has been changed to the unified OmniScience thesaurus to generate fingerprints. Pure users are encouraged to check the fingerprints generated for their records and make changes to the fingerprint visibility if required. See guidance on Fingerprints and how to edit them in Pure.
September 2024: Agresso data on consultancies added to Pure
We have added ‘University consultancy’ as one of the Project types to Pure. If your consultancy is recorded in Agresso (project starting with code AB), it will be automatically added to Pure. By default, consultancy records will not be displayed on the research portal. Consultancies will also be included in the Research Activity Reports. See the guidance on Adding Projects to Pure.
April 2024: Technical staff profiles created in Pure
All technical staff now have access to a Pure profile and are encouraged to add information about themselves and any publications they may have. If you are technical staff, please indicate this in Pure by clicking on ‘Edit profile’, in the section ‘Technical staff flag’ clicking on the button and selecting ‘Technical staff’ and clicking on ‘Save’. This will help the University to easier identify and support the technical staff community and their contribution to research. For more information on how to update details in Pure, please see the user guides.
December 2023: Import from Orcid to Pure
Orcid has been added as one of the import sources for publications, further extending the Pure and Orcid integration. To import publications from Orcid, you will need your Orcid ID. See more guidance on adding publication data to Pure and the benefits of adding your Orcid ID to Pure.
December 2022: Information about shareable equipment added to Pure
During 2022, we have updated the Pure information about University’s internally and externally shareable equipment and facilities and this information is publicly visible to all on the University’s Research Portal. The work was led and carried out by Materials Characterisation Instrument Specialist Dr Rémi Castaing and the Director of Research Infrastructure and Facilities Dr Anneke Lubben. If you would like to add more information about an equipment or a facility, please contact pure@bath.ac.uk. There will be further updates to Pure equipment and facility data in 2023.
November 2022: Adding visual content to the portal profile page and outputs
With the latest Pure upgrade, it is possible to add more visual content to the research portal. This is the first step to a more visually engaging research portal. Currently, we can add the following:
images to the researcher profile page (see guidance)
embed a video on a research output page (see guidance)
add images to equipment pages (contact [pure@bath.ac.uk])(mailto:pure@bath.ac.uk) to update this information
add images and embed videos on the departmental and research centre pages (contact pure@bath.ac.uk to update this information)
November 2022: PlumX Metrics enabled on the research portal output pages PlumX Metrics provide insights into the ways people interact with research outputs in the online environment (for example, where the publication is cited or tweeted about). PlumX information is categorised into 5 categories: Citations (including policy citations), Usage, Captures, Mentions, and Social Media (for more details on each of the categories please see the PlumX metrics overview). PlumX Metrics are added to Pure based on the output DOI and/or Scopus ID. On the research portal, you can view the metrics where an output has a PlumX icon next to it – scroll over for a summary of PlumX Metrics and click on the icon to view the PlumX page with more information. You can see a summary of PlumX Metrics for all your outputs on the personal overview screen when logged onto your Pure account.
October 2022: New personal user interface
On 13 October, Pure was upgraded to a version 5.24 which introduced a new look and feel of the Personal overview page. Pure developers will be carrying out a number of changes over the next year to make Pure more modern, user-friendly and accessible. The personal user interface is the first step in this direction. More on the new interface here.
October 2022: Changes to Pure Activity and Research Outputs categories
Following feedback from a Pure user survey (December 2021), we are making a number of changes across the system to include more in-system guidance and improve the clarity of Research Output and Activity categories. In particular, we have revised the Activity categories to make it clearer where to capture various activities. For more information and examples, please see the Activity page.