Systems demonstration of Pure by Sue Cumberpatch, University of York, Information Directorate. Presentation at the Research Evaluation: Is It Our Business? The Role of Librarians in the Brave New World of Research Evaluation 29 June 2011, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus.
3. The publications database The PURE publications (“research outputs”) database at York has largely been populated from legacy data in : The White Rose Repository InCites (API) access to Web of Science Outputs from various other sources now being added
4. Getting legacy data into system One-off bulk upload, performed by Atira with centrally-organised validation WRRO, WoS Upload of departmental data managed by departmental administrator, inc initial validation Smaller datasets, usually available in BibTex or RIS format Individual academics adding own data And/or paying students to do it …
5. Library support for PURE Academic Liaison Librarians help their departments with queries about adding new outputs, setting up a scan for outputs, etc Help with integration with other bibliographic systems White Rose repository Bibliographies held in EndNote etc RIS and BibTex export file creation Still early days – system not fully launched, not many queries so far
16. Further information Most of York’s PURE help pages (eg how to input references) are open to everyone to view: http://www.york.ac.uk/staff/research/pure/how-to-use-pure/ Includes: Importing from an online source Creating a BibTeX file from Endnote Creating a BibTeX file from Google Scholar Creating a BibTeX file from Google Books
PURE now “pushes” publications data into White Rose repository. Full text still held in White RosePURE is the main point of entry for researchers wanting to make open access version of their publications available
Addition and curation of research output dataUnderstanding and use of citation dataAdvocacy and training in use of repositoriesAlso could contribute to help and training in all aspects of CRIS