Your research profile

Edit your staff research profile on Pure

You need to have a current Staff record in Pure to be able to log in to Pure. If you are unable to log in to Pure, please contact your College/School Pure representative or pure@ed.ac.uk

Please note that Pure is incompatible with Internet Explorer - please use other browsers, e.g. Chrome, Firefox or Safari, to access Pure.

Pure Profile Checklist

Whether you are new to Pure or have been a user for a while, you might like to reflect on how effectively your Pure profile represents you and your research as well as the outputs and impact of that research. Please refer to the guides below when adding information to your Pure profile and use the checklist below to ensure your profile is up-to-date and ready for display on ERE. 

 

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Guides to adding more information to your Pure profile:  

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ORCID

You may also wish to connect your Pure profile to your ORCID profile, if you have one. If you have connected your ORCID profile to your Pure profile, you are then able to export the research outputs on your Pure profile to your ORCID profile.

Please refer to the guides below to create an ORCID profile, if you don't have one already, and to authorise the connection between your Pure profile and your ORCID profile.

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If you wish to import your research outputs from ORCID into Pure, please refer to our guide on Importing Research Outputs from Online Sources.

Scopus Author ID

You may want to add your Scopus author ID to your Pure profile to enable an automated search for content in Scopus. 

To learn more about enabling an automated search for content in a number of citation databases, please refer to our guidance on Enabling Automated Searches

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Pure - Add Scopus Author ID (246.15 KB / PDF)

If you wish to import your research outputs from Scopus into Pure, please refer to our guide on Importing Research Outputs from Online Sources.

Connecting your staff Profile Page to Pure

You may wish to add information about your research to your staff Profile Page on Edweb. The publications tab in your Edweb profile allows you to include information from Pure by adding your UUID. Alternatively, you can use the Pure widget

 

Obtaining your Pure UUID:

Please refer to the guide below when obtaining your Pure UUID. If you are looking up this information on behalf of a member of staff and are not a registered user of Pure, please email pure@ed.ac.uk and request the UUID for the person(s) you need.

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Obtaining Pure UUID (133.07 KB / PDF)

For further support on creating and editing your Profile Page in Edweb, please visit the Edweb Support site or contact website.support@ed.ac.uk.

 

Pure widget:

The Pure profile embed is a widget developed by the UoE web team. It allows embedding of Pure records on UoE websites via HTML.  If you have any questions about the widget’s development or any problems,  please contact website.support@ed.ac.uk.

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