Pure is the University's Research Information system, it holds a range of research-related outcomes, impact, activities, and promotes the University's research excellence to the wider community.
Pure content can be related to build connections between people, grants, publications, impacts and datasets. Pure links with other university systems including HR data, research grants, and student records, to provide an overview of research activity. We encourage all researchers to maintain their Pure profile and keep Pure up to date with the latest research outputs and activities. When set to 'public', in the visibility settings, data from Pure populates the Public Research Portal . Open access publications with a full text file attached are uploaded to the Aberdeen University Research Archive (AURA) where all open access publications are available to read.
Contact the Pure team at pure-feedback@abdn.ac.uk with any problems or queries.
- Importing Publications
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Guides on how to add you publications to Pure can now be found on our SharePoint site
- FAQs and Glossary
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Common questions asked about Pure, and a Glossary containing key terms, can be found on our SharePoint site . For any quesitons not covered on the SharePoint site please contact the Pure team.
- Alternative Metrics
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What are Altmetrics? Altmetrics or alternative metrics are complementary metrics that work alongside traditional metrics such as number of documents, number of citations, category normilised citation impact, open access status, etc., to produce a comprehensive picture of how research is being received around the world.
Staff and students can find out more about Altmetrics on our SharePoint site
- System Maintenance
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Three major releases of Pure are issued by our software provider every year, the Pure team test and review each upgrade before rolling out a new version. When a new version is due to be rolled out you will be notified when you log into Pure.
During a system upgrade you will not be able to log into Pure and publication lists on staff pages or university web pages will not be available. However you can still notify new publicaiotns to paperaccepted@abdn.ac.uk and publication lists can still be accessed from the public research portal
Staff and students can find out more about maintenance and upgrade processes for Pure on our SharePoint site