Pure is a customisable standard-software CRIS.
It integrates research profiles, outputs, organisations, projects and funding to assist researchers and managers. Pure also supports returns to surveys and assessment programmes, and helps increase the visibility of institutions and their outputs and academics.
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Information like publications, projects, profiles, activities, and esteem can be input by researchers or administrative staff. To that, the Self-import module helps retrieve publications from files and online sources - in bulk or individually. Web of Science, inCites, Scopus, ArXiv, and PubMed are currently supported. All new content can be enriched and validated in workflows. Also, users can create reports about information in Pure: Reports can be scheduled to run and distribute by e-mail, and they can include lists, tables, calculations, and graphs.
The Web-Service API facilitates development of own web applications on top of Pure, but a PurePortal can also be deployed for online exhibition of research information. Finally, built-in tools are available for identifying and merging duplicates, and rich administrator functionality is available. For full details and other features, please see Functionality.
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Integration can be set up with systems like HR, finance, student administration, or authentication systems, and full-text can be submitted automatically to repositories. Further, import of citations and impact-factors from Web of Science and Scopus is possible, and so is import of legacy data. Please see Systems integration.
Pure comes with functionality for collecting, evaluating, and returning data to a number of national assessment exercises in different countries. Although not fully specified by HEFCE yet, UK's REF exercise is actually sufficiently completed in order for most of the necessary datamodel concepts and functionalities to have been implemented and tested in Pure. Similarly, support is available for DASTI's exercise in Denmark and for the Flemish FRIS programme.
Please see Assessment functionality for full details.
Since 2002, Pure has been licensed for roughly 40.000 researchers at more than 50 organisations in seven countries. Full information is available under References.
Each module below is optional except the Basic module. There is no inter-dependency between modules, and modules can be added at any time. For more information, please see Functionality:
| Module | Short description | Optional |
| Basic module | The basis for any Pure installation, this module contains all basic user functionality. Please also see the page Functionality. | No |
| CV module | Allows researchers to create different CVs (profile, publications, projects, grant successes, bibliometrics) for different purposes. CVs can be published online or printed. CVs can automatically update by rules when new content is added to Pure. | Yes |
| Bibliometrics | Facilitates import and processing of citation data sets and impact-factors from Thomson-Reuters Web of Science and from Scopus. Also facilitate processing of imported data. Both import from files and online interfaces is possible. | Yes |
| Reports | Users can create all-new reports or modify existing ones. Reports can contain lists, statistics and graphs and can be compound; i.e. several sets of criteria can be expressed in one report. Reports can be scheduled to run at a specified date and time and be distributed automatically to any number of e-mail addresses. | Yes |
| Press clippings | Makes it possible to add press to Pure. Summaries or entire articles can be added. Such clippings can be imported from an XML feed or added manually and linked to Persons, Organisations, Projects or Publications. | Yes |
| Student theses | Makes it possible to also have student theses in Pure. Not relevant with all datamodels. | Yes |
| External publications | Makes it possible to also have “external publications” in Pure (publications written by researchers during previous employments). Not relevant with all datamodels. | Yes |
| PurePortal | This framework makes it possible to build a public research portal that exhibits all public content from Pure in one go. Many features are available for the public users; search and filtering, RSS-subscriptions, save-as-XML, floating diagrams, etc. | Yes |
Available modules
The application architecture of Pure was designed to be a robust, flexible, and secure platform for customers to run their Pure solution and for ourselves to continue building features. True Multi-tenancy and the option for community-driven cost-sharing are examples of benefits from this architecture.
Please see Architecture for more information.
There is a User-group in the UK and two in Denmark; one for universities and one for university colleges. User-groups are constituting in other countries as well. User-groups share experiences and bet practises, and they provide a forum for coordination of feature development, cost-sharing, and other activities. The Danish University User-group also arranges an annual Pure conference.
Please contact us for information about UGs or contact-info to their chairs.
From initial presentations over quoting or tendering to the actual implementation project and roll-out, we follow a proven method based on experience since 2002. For full information please see Implementation.
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We specialize in customer- and domain-specific solutions for knowledge intensive sectors. Our area is server-side applications and integration in service oriented architectures.
Our development and project management method is SCRUM. We work in a number of European countries.