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Getting started in Pure
- Logging into Pure
- Emails and messages from Pure
- Your personal or editor's overview
- Searching, filtering and viewing content in Pure
- Downloading and extracting Pure content
Pure is the University of Bristol's research information system. You can use Pure to record and manage details about research outputs, projects, research activities (awards, activities) and impact. The information in Pure populates the University’s Explore Bristol Research web site.
Logging into Pure
If you are a current member of academic staff, you will automatically have access to your personal Pure account. To access Pure go to the Pure web site http://www.bris.ac.uk/pure - click the red button labelled Log into Pure (above, top left) and enter your usual University user name and password through Single Sign-on.
For all other members of staff, Pure accounts may be requested. Go to user access to Pure for further details.
Emails and messages from Pure
The first time you log on to Pure a welcome screen will be displayed with information about setting your Pure email frequency. Pure will notify you about any changes made by another person to your research outputs, projects and activities - choose how often you want to receive emails.
The welcome screen will ask you to set the frequency with which you want to receive emails from Pure. By selecting a daily, weekly or monthly email alert you will receive all the messages relating to your profile during the relevant time period.
You can change your email settings at any time by clicking on your username at the top right corner of the Pure screen:
and selecting your preferred email frequency and what you wish to hear about:
Remember to select 
after you make any changes to settings.
Your personal or editor's overview
Once you have logged on, you will be taken to the personal overview screen in Pure. This is your personal area within Pure where you can view, manage and add new content.
Personal user view
Go to: Your personal profile for further details about editing your personal details and creating CVs.
or editor view (administrators or any staff editing for other users)
Editors - Pure will filter your department's outputs. Note that if you wish to view all outputs you can remove the "My content" label - click on the cross on the "My content" label and this will remove the filter limiting your view to the outputs which you can edit.
Left hand section
Select a heading to view a complete listing of your content. Filter, sort and search content within Pure.
Research Outputs: Pure has been populated with publication records from IRIS and ROSE. Outputs can be added into Pure in several different ways including from online databases such as Web of Science. See the Guide to research outputs in Pure.
Activities: Personal users can maintain information about their research activities in this section including awards, conference attendance and invited talks. Historical IRIS editorial activity records have been added into this section. See the Guide to activities in Pure.
Projects: Funded projects with an “R...” finance code from 2002 onwards are sourced from University finance systems. Users can add additional information about these projects into Pure and also add non-funded projects (or non-externally-funded) . onto the system. Note that the difference between funded and non-funded will not be evident on the EBR web site. See the Guide to projects in Pure
Applications/ Funding: Details of applications for research projects have been loaded into Pure from the University system ORCA. Approximately three years of successful and unsuccessful applications will appear in Pure as well as details of successful applications from 2002 onwards. See the Guide to applications/funding in Pure
Impacts: Personal users can use Pure to store examples of the impact of their research which may be useful in the future. See the Guide to impact in Pure
Central Section - Personal/academic users (see also Central Section - Editors)
This area provides a summary of your information within Pure.
Tabs in the central section of the personal overview screen:
- My research: provides an overview of your latest content added into Pure.
- My CVs and profile: Staff can create and modify their CV which will be populated from information held in Pure. See video: http://www.atira.dk/en/pure/screencasts/cv/create.html
- Supervision: Staff who supervise Postgraduate Research Students will have a tab on their Pure overview screen showing details of current and former postgraduate research students. This information is drawn from the University’s student records system (SITS) and will contain historical information from 2002 onwards.
- REF2014: Staff that were included in the 2011 Mock REF will have a ‘Propose outputs for the REF’ tab. On this they will see information uploaded into Pure from the 2011 Mock REF exercise. Further details: the Pure REF system
View research connections: provides a visual means of viewing and exploring collaborations and research connections based on information held within Pure.
Personal Profile information: Pure takes a feed of information from the University’s HR system PIMS. This includes information such as names and job titles and research groups. Staff photos and profile information may have been drawn from the People Profiler application as a one-off process in November 2012. Photographs and profile information can be edited. Go to Your personal profile for further details about editing your personal details.
Central Section - Editors (see also Central Section - Personal/academic users)
The editor's central section contains all of the information to which you have editing access, e.g. your department or school. If you wish to remove this filter and view all content - you can remove the My content label in the Research output and other information-type sections on the left-hand side. To remove the filter click the cross (hover over it and the cross will turn red) on the My Content label. For further details about adding and removing filters and creating saved enquiries go to Searching, filtering and viewing content in Pure
Right hand section
Click the green Add new button to add new content to Pure.
- Suggested personal tasks may, for example, be a message that you have possible matches in Web of Science.
- My messages contains messages and notifications.
- My history shows content you have recently accessed
See also: Your personal profile for further details about editing your personal details and creating CVs.
Searching, filtering and viewing content in Pure
Click on a content-type in the left section of your personal overview screen. You will be presented with a list of your content. This list can be filtered, searched and sorted.
Search, filter, sort, save:
By removing the My content label you are able to search and view all of the records held in Pure for staff across the University, where the record has not been marked as confidential. Click on the box with a cross in it next to the My Content label to remove this filter.
You can save filtered information: Click on the drawing pin next to the filter and name and save it. The filter will still be on the left-hand side when you next log in. To delete a saved filter, select it so that the filter results display and the left-hand link displays in a darker blue, then a cross will appear on the blue link and you can delete it by clicking the cross.
By default, all lists in Pure will display records in a short render format. The short render format contains basic information about the record. To see more detailed information about the record, click on the grey triangle to see the long render format.
Viewing individual records
To view detailed information about an individual record within Pure, click on the record and a new window will open with details of the record. Different information about the record can be seen by choosing different options on the left hand navigation. The Pure ID number of the record is displayed in the top left of the screen.
- Metadata: The metadata fields describing the record
- Metrics: Citation information may be populated here for research outputs imported from Web of Science
- Relations: A view of other content that this record is related to
- Display: Shows the different display formats for the record and includes option to export the record in other formats
- History and comments: system audit data for the record
Downloading and extracting Pure content
To download and extract content from Pure, select the relevant heading in the left hand section of your personal overview screen. You will be presented with a list of content.
At the bottom of the screen you now have the option to download content from Pure. Various download options are available depending on the content type.
After you have selected your preferred download option, Pure will prompt you to select a download format for the records:
- Short: Pure’s default short render style containing basic details about the record
- Long: Pure’s default long render style containing more detailed information about the record.
You can also extract the details of a specific record in Pure. To do this, select the record and a new window will open with details of the record.
Choose the option Display on the left hand navigation. The screen will display an overview of the record with several other tabs ‘formats’ and ‘exports’. From the format and extract tabs the record details are available in different downloadable formats.
Note: some of the documents on this page are in PDF format. In order to view a PDF you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader