Please see the Research Office Privacy Notice. This is an extension of the University Privacy Policy.

Please see Elsevier’s guidance on this.

Anyone can browse the repository but not everyone can log in to create or edit content.

There are several user roles in Pure. Members of Edge Hill may hold more than one:

1. Person:
   • Current academic staff.
   • Current doctoral research degree students inc. GTAs/Doctoral Tutors.
   • Former staff and doctoral research degree students.
2. Personal user – a Person who has log in rights to Pure and a public profile.
3. User – support staff.
4. Editor in this case refers to separate functions:
   • Reporter – a User or Personal user with the ability to generate, view, edit and share reports on certain content in Pure for specific organisational units.
   • Editor – as per Reporter but with additional rights to approve or edit certain content for specific organisational units.

There are also central Administrators with rights beyond Editor and for all organisational units, some for specific tasks or content, some for the entire system.

• Academic staff can log in to Pure using their normal EHU log-in details. ‘Academic’ in this case is defined as the person’s HESA academic employment function being either teaching and research or research only.
• Doctoral research degree students can log in to Pure using their normal EHU student log-in details.
• GTAs and Doctoral Tutors are considered students.
• Research assistants and technicians may not be on eligible academic contracts (as above) so would not automatically have a Pure account, in part because we need to prioritise Pure licences for active, independent researchers. If your head of department makes a case that you are an independent researcher in your capacity as an Edge Hill employee, we can have an account created.
• Support staff do not automatically have access. Because support staff can only access Pure if they have editor rights, which grant access to other people’s data, they are assigned user rights by the Research Office following confirmation from the Head of Department that such access is appropriate. Please ask your HoD to complete the Pure editor rights request form on the Research wiki .

Unfortunately not, because the Associate Tutor role is specifically a teaching role.

If you are looking for somewhere to upload your research outputs, you could set up an ORCID account, or use a service such as ResearchGate or a third party/subject repository.

Because editor rights grant access to other people’s data, your Head of Department needs to confirm the appropriate level of access to the Research Office. The best method is for them to complete the Pure editor rights request form on the Research wiki .

Students cannot hold editor rights.

If you are in a role at Edge Hill that should have log-in access to Pure (see above) but you receive an error message instead, please click on the relevant link to the wiki provided in the message and complete the form.

We will investigate and respond as soon as possible.

Please fill out the Questions and Feedback form on the Research wiki , or e-mail pure@edgehill.ac.uk.

Please fill out the Report an error form on the Research wiki . Please provide as much information as you can.

Please check for known issues first, as we may already be looking into the problem.

General training for staff will be bookable through MyView. These are practical training sessions in computer rooms.

General training for students will be promoted by the Graduate School.

Editors and reporters will be offered training on a group or individual basis.

You are able to update your own profile in Pure (see the user guide, ‘Edit Your Person Profile’). Some departments may have an editor tasked with supporting you in this but it varies by area, and you know your profile better than anyone.

Staff: your current post

Your current post and department is sourced from the HR Information System. Only permanent and fixed term academic posts are imported into Pure, therefore any Associate Tutor, Visiting Lecturer or non-academic roles you have had will not come through (please see the user guide on editing your profile for advice on how you can manually add these).

Post title changes that occur while you are in post (e.g. relating to a departmental name change) will not come through to Pure, and the post title shown is your last known job title in the post.

Staff: previous posts

At first, your academic post history (going back to 2010) was imported from your record but the synchronisation with this data was later disabled, meaning you can edit some imported information on previous posts if it was incorrect. See the user guide, ‘Edit Your Person Profile’ for details.

Students: your course details

Your organisational unit affiliation displays as your home faculty. This, your name, mode, course title, etc. cannot be changed in Pure because it comes straight from your student record. If any details need to change please follow the usual procedures for updating your record through the Graduate School/Academic Registry.

In 2020 (date TBC), your Pure profile will begin to populate your academic profile on the EHU website, so Pure will be the only place you need to go to update your profile.

More information will be provided soon but the sooner departments can confirm their Pure profiles are up to date, the sooner this change can occur: please update your Pure profile as soon as you can.

Profiles of current staff and doctoral research degree students are public by default. After they leave, the profile is automatically hidden.

If there is good reason to hide your profile, ask your head of department to e-mail us, confirming that the situation is serious enough that there is a genuine need to hide your public profile.

This will only hide your person profile; your content (outputs, etc.) remain publicly visible.

This allows you to deposit your own doctoral thesis, should you wish to do so.

It is not intended for doctorates awarded externally – your awarding institution should already have your thesis on its repository so you could include a link to there in your profile instead of submitting it to Pure.

This will normally be for one of two reasons:

• We imported all outputs under consideration for the REF from the old research repository when we launched Pure.
• Your EHU co-author has proposed the output.

If these are not outputs you would have proposed for your UoA, you do not need to take any action. When one author proposes an output, they automatically propose it for all of their co-authors at EHU. Your UoA Co-ordinators will review the proposal and remove it from the UoA’s submission if necessary, although it will will remain in your list of proposals.

If these are outputs you would have proposed for your UoA, you should edit the proposal to provide your reason, ranking, etc. to help selection decisions.