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Pure

A commercial CRIS product, originally developed by Atira A/S in Denmark and now owned by Elsevier, used by universities and research organisations to manage publications, projects, people, organisational units, awards, equipment, and external engagement, and to expose this information through a configurable public 'research portal'.

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· Last updated 10 Jul 2026

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Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A UK university running Pure to power its public research portal and to produce its REF 2021 submission.
Is an instance
A Pure deployment integrated with the institutional repository so that publications added in Pure are automatically deposited.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
Pure is not an institutional repository — though it often integrates with one.
Not an instance
Scopus itself is not Pure, though Pure ingests data from it.

Editorial commentary

Pure offers automated harvesting from Scopus, Web of Science, Crossref, Embase, and PubMed; an authorial-claim workflow whereby imported publications appear in a researcher’s claim queue; bibliometric integrations; REF/ERA/related-assessment modules; and a public-portal layer with researcher and unit pages. Customers can extend Pure through the API and through configurable workflow rules. Pure is widely deployed across UK, EU, Australian, and North American universities.

References

Elsevier, 'Pure: Research Information Management System' (elsevier.com/research-intelligence/pure).

Also known as

Pure CRIS

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-term="Pure"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/pure" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [
    "Pure CRIS"
  ],
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  },
  "dateModified": "2026-07-10T02:06:20",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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