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Pure
- About Pure
- Getting started in Pure
- Explore Bristol Research and your personal profile
- How to use Pure
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- Explore Bristol Research
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Explore Bristol Research and your personal profile
- How to edit and improve your personal overview page
- Visibility, confidentiality and who can see what
- How to display publications on Explore Bristol Research
- How to display projects on Explore Bristol Research
- How to display awards/activities on Explore Bristol Research
- Organisations and research groups
- Create and edit your CV
How to edit and improve your personal overview page
- Photo: If you wish to add or change your photo on Explore Bristol Research click the Edit profile button to the right of your photo underneath your title and school/department/research group details
Scroll down to the bottom of the screen where there is a section for adding and maintaining your photo. - Personal information including name, post-nominals, job title and work address: This information is taken from the University’s HR system and displayed in Pure and the Explore Bristol Research website. If any of this information is incorrect, you can log in and change details of your name and post-nominals on the University staff info pages. Changes you make here will update overnight in Pure and Explore Bristol Research. If your job title, address, or department is incorrect please contact the HR representative for your school. If you are unsure what to do please contact Pure support.
- Profile Description: click the Edit profile button to the right of your photo underneath your title and school/department/research group details.
- Google map: A Google map will be displayed on your personal profile overview showing locations of conferences and activities that you have entered into Pure.
How do I get a Google map to appear on my page?- Add events to conference contributions, activities and : When adding a research output from a conference, add the conference or performance record in the usual way but include an event on the record. When you add the event include details of the conference including location information. This location information will then be automatically used to add a pin to your Google map.
- Add activities and awards including conference participation: when adding activities and awards into Pure, the majority of types of activities allow you to add an event. When you add the event you should include city and country. This location information will then be used to add a pin to your Google map.
- Add events to conference contributions, activities and : When adding a research output from a conference, add the conference or performance record in the usual way but include an event on the record. When you add the event include details of the conference including location information. This location information will then be automatically used to add a pin to your Google map.
- Highlighting content: You can highlight records in Pure so that they display on your Pure overview page as selected research outputs/projects/activities and awards. To do this log in to Pure and on your personal overview page, click Highlight content on Explore Bristol Research. Search and add the records that you want to highlight. You can change the display order using the arrows. We recommend that for display purposes you limit the total number of records that you highlight to a maximum of 6. Remember to save any changes you make.
How to display publications
- How to add a publication to Pure: In order for a publication to display on the Explore Bristol Research website, it needs to be entered onto Pure (go to user guide to adding publications/outputs)
- How to control the visibility of publications: Publications records that are Completed (not Draft) in Pure will be visible on the Explore Bristol Research website unless you specify otherwise. You can control the visibility of publications (how to control visibility). Please note that records with full text attachments will only become visible after the library has checked and validated that the document meets the publishers copyright permissions - see the guide to adding full text documents
- How do I highlight publications for more prominent display on my overview page?
- How do I create related content? To enhance the display of information on Explore Bristol Research and provide a new way of exploring research information, you can create links between your publication records and other records in Pure e.g. linking the publication to a project, or linking an activity to a publication (guide to creating relations between Pure content types)
How to display projects
- Adding a non-funded project
- Making visible a funded project and improving the content
- How do I highlight research projects for more prominent display on my overview page?
- How do I create related content? To enhance the display of information on Explore Bristol Research and provide a new way of exploring research information, you can create links between your project records and other records in Pure e.g. linking the project to a publication, or linking an activity to a project (guide to creating relations between Pure content types)
How to display awards/activities
- Adding activities and awards
- How do I control the visibility of activities and awards?
- How do I highlight activities and awards for more prominent display on my overview page?
- How do I create related content?To enhance the display of information on Explore Bristol Research and provide a new way of exploring research information, you can create links between your activity/award records and other records in Pure e.g. linking the activity to a publication, or linking a publication to an activity (guide to creating relations between Pure content types)
Organisations and research groups
- Organisations are displayed on Explore Bristol Research. This includes the official University structure (e.g. schools and faculties) as well as institutes and research groups/centres. If your research group or centre does not appear on the EBR web site please consult with your centre director and email the Pure help desk on pure-support@bristol.ac.uk giving further details including the centre's start date and current members.
- The Explore Bristol Research site will display affiliated people, projects, publications and activities for the organisation.
Create and edit your CV
Once you have updated all your outputs (publications), activities and projects in Pure you can produce a CV for your own use directly from the system.
- In My CVs and profile tab, then select the + Create new CV button.
- An option box will appear offering you options for private or public. Your CV will not be displayed on the web site as this function is disabled so you can ignore this warning and select the blue Create button
- The second option box will appear detailing the sections which can be added to your CV:
- Select the sections you wish to add to your CV and select Create - the completed CV will appear.
Edit your CV
- When you hover over the section you wish to edit with your mouse, you will be able to select Edit on the left hand side.
- You can download your completed CV to your computer as a PDF or Word document by selecting the relevant option at the top of the screen.
- Finally remember to save the record using the blue save button -
on the top right hand side to save all changes.
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