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Pure Research Profiles: Adding Publications and Other Content

This guide offers an overview of AU's research profiling system, Pure and how to manage profiles.

Content: types that can be added manually

On your Personal Overview page all of your different types of content is listed (research output, activities, prizes, grants, and datasets).  

"Research Output" is used to describe a very wide range of academic publications and other types of productions including: 

  • peer-reviewed journal articles, editorials, letters
  • books, chapters in books
  • conference papers and posters
  • software, performances, artifacts, exhibitions or compositions
  • patents
  • theses

"Activities" is used to describe various other academic activities or data points besides research output:

  • attending a conference or giving a talk

"Prizes" is used to describe medals and awards

"Grants"  Pure automatically adds National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for researcher.  Other grants, the researcher will have to add manually.  

Adding Content Manually

1.Click Pure_Add New button image in the Personal Overview page.

2. In the Choose submission wizard, either:

  A. Click Research Output in the left pane and drill down until you locate the precise type of the item you want to add.

  B. Click Submission Guide and select one of your commonly-used record types from the main area of the window. 

Pure_Submission guide   

Pure_submission guide most commonly used         

3.  Enter all available information about the item in the editor window.

4. In the Relations section, add links to any other records that have a real-work connection to the current item you are adding.  Clink the icon under each listed content type and begin typing the name of the related record to link to see matches.

5. Click Save.