Why this guide?
Your Pure profile is the most common entry point to your work. As a part of the faculty’s EU Funding Strategy (2024-2026) and the overall increased focus on external funding, we strive to keep researchers’ Pure profiles updated with achievements, roles and research interests. Presenting this information clearly and concisely makes researchers more visible to funders, evaluators, and potential collaborators from other organizations seeking research partners. It also makes our work and areas of expertise visual to the press, scholars within our research fields and more.
Although many elements in Pure are fixed, there are various ways to optimize your profile to make it as engaging as possible. We kindly ask you to follow this guide of obligatory and optional actions:
Obligatory sections
1. Research areas
The purpose of the ‘Research areas’ section is to provide an introduction to your academic profile, your key contributions, and your current research interests. The objective is to ensure that both peers and individuals outside your specific field can clearly understand the core focus and distinguishing aspects of your research. This section should be concise (approx. 150-300 words) and should not be formed like a CV, as there is a designated section for this elsewhere on the profile (see section 4). We recommend including both an English and a Danish version.
Consider structuring your text by answering the following questions:
- Core academic focus / core expertise: Which methods and academic disciplines are central to your work?
- Research contributions: Which specific areas or problems have you addressed in your research? How have your results contributed to your research field and/or to practical applications? Which research groups, centres or other collaborations are you a part of?
- Current Interests: Which research areas are you currently focusing on? Are you planning to explore any new topics, methodologies, or potential collaborations?
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- Start by logging in at www.sdu.dk/pure, click ‘Edit profile’, and in the new window, scroll to the ‘Research areas’ heading and press the button.
- A detailed guide, including a video tutorial, on how to add a profile description is available via the Library's Pure Guide.
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2. Education/Academic qualification
In this section, you can list relevant degrees and academic qualifications. The information you choose to include should reflect your level of experience – whether you are a recent graduate or have many years of research experience.
The following examples are provided for guidance only:
- Junior researchers: Master’s degree, PhD, other relevant educational achievements
- Senior researchers: PhD, doctoral degree, relevant advanced training or professional development
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Start by logging in at www.sdu.dk/pure, click 'Edit profile,' and in the new window, scroll to the ‘Education/Academic qualification’ heading and press the button.
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3. Current external positions
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Start by logging in at www.sdu.dk/pure, click ‘Edit profile’, and in the new window, scroll to the ‘Current External Positions’ heading and press the button.
A detailed guide, including a video tutorial, on how to add a profile description is available via the Library's Pure Guide.Example:
4. Curriculum vitae
CVs are displayed as links beneath your profile picture. It is mandatory for permanent staff to have a public teaching portfolio in Pure. You can add multiple portfolios or CVs to your profile, e.g. teaching portfolio and general academic CV. CVs are generated by the built-in Pure function, i.e. they can no longer be uploaded as PDF files but are based on the information about employment, publications etc. that you have typed in the system. When setting up the CV in Pure, you can, however, create a ‘Text section’ and insert text from a PDF or Word file.
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- Start by logging in at www.sdu.dk/pure, click ‘Add content’, and scroll down in the new window to the ‘CV' section, where you can add information.
- In earlier versions of Pure, CVs were added directly to the personal profile page (displayed in the left column of your personal profile page). If your CV still appears in the left column, it is recommended that you delete it and instead add a new CV via the ‘Add content’ function, as described above.
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5. Fingerprints
Fingerprints are automatically generated subject words distributed under predefined keywords. The function is intended for finding researchers within specific fields. You can remove individual words manually, but you can only get additional words on your profile by adding either English summaries and titles on publications, awards and projects registrations, or English text about ‘research areas’ in the ‘Personal profile’ section.
We recommend avoiding the use of the ‘Keywords’ function on your profile's front page. This feature relies on an outdated thesaurus originally developed for Pure and is in the process of being phased out.
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A detailed guide, including a video tutorial, on how to modify Fingerprints is available via the Library's Pure Guide.
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Optional sections
6. Highlighted content
By default, the most recent content is presented on the front of the profile. But the function “Highlighted content” allows you to select up to five pieces of content of each content type (for instance, a certain publication) to be displayed on the front of the profile. Go “Edit profile” and the tab on the left side: “Highlighted content”.
7. Links
By default, there are links to your Scopus (if you have one) and ORCID profile in the overview part of your Pure site. It is also possible to view embedded web links, for example to your personal website or your LinkedIn, Bluesky, Google Scholar profile etc. Links are added in Pure under ‘Edit profile’ and ‘Links’.
8. Image
Aside from the profile picture, it is possible to add one or more images to your profile, which will be displayed in a gallery under ‘Personal profile’. For example, it could be pictures of your books, photos of you receiving an award, speaking at a conference or something completely different. Be aware of copyrights.
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- Click on ‘Edit profile’
- Inside your profile, select ‘Add image’ and then select the type ‘Gallery’ in the drop-down menu, click ‘Create’.
- Upload one or more images from your device.
- Finish with ‘Save’.
- The image must be max. 1 MB (jpg, .jpeg, .png, .bmp or .gif)
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If you have questions, contact HUM Research Support or The SDU Library’s Pure Support (puresupport@bib.sdu.dk).
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