Getting started with Pure

To access Pure, go to pure.soton.ac.uk and log in using your University username and password.

Please note that only academic staff, postgraduate students and designated professional services staff have access to Pure. 

Research outputs include journal publications, conference proceedings, books, chapters and any other demonstrable product of research. Outputs must be recorded in Pure to be considered for future research assessment exercises such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and to appear on your academic profile.

For detailed guidance on uploading different types of research output, please visit the Library website.

If you want a member of staff to be able to access your Pure account for support purposes or to upload content on your behalf, see section 7 of the Top 10 Tasks in Pure.

Data from your HR record, funding from Finance and supervised postgraduate students from Banner are fed into Pure from there corporate systems.

If you have queries about your data, please email our Faculty Pure contact listed on the Pure Support page.

Pure notifies you when there is a change in content with which you are associated. You can set these notifications to be sent by email or for them to be kept within the messaging interface within Pure. It is recommended that you set Pure to send you emails and messages instantly for all changes to all content.

View the guide on the Library Pure page – Message and email setting in Pure.

Impact is defined as the demonstrable effect, change or benefit of your research to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia. Pure is the repository into which you can record your impact and store the associated evidence. Impact records can then be linked to outputs, people and funding, making it much easier to piece together a coherent story.

Pure imports information on your externally-funded projects from the Finance System and allows you to record internally-awarded and non-funded research projects. Link your outputs and impact to your projects in Pure to maintain a full overview of your research portfolio. Pure will eventually become the data source for a project's outputs on the University website.

Guidance for Linking content in Pure can be found in the Pure SharePoint site.

Pure can be used to record details of research activities and esteem indicators. Examples include invited talks, editorial work and public engagement activity. Prizes, such as honorary degrees or conference prizes, can also be included within the Prizes module. These can be used with other research information to create a customised CV, and in due course will be fed through to academic profiles on the University website.

Guidance for adding activities and prizes into Pure can be located on the Pure SharePoint site.

Pure facilitates registration and/or linkage of your ORCiD ID (orcid.org). ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers globally.

• If you have already registered an ORCiD ID with the University, this will have been transferred to Pure.
• If you have an existing ORCiD ID registered elsewhere, log in to Pure and click Add existing ORCiD to add this to Pure.
• If you have yet to register an ORCiD ID, log in to Pure and click Create ORCiD to create a new ID and add it to Pure.

Further information concerning ORCiD at the University of Southampton can be found on the Library ORCiD webpage.

Information in Pure can be used to create a customised CV in Word or PDF format. You can store any number of customised CVs with different information from Pure.

Further guidance on using the CV functionality in Pure can be found in our Pure SharePoint site.