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Guide to Pure profile design for HUM researchers

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?

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 

3. Current external positions

Current external positions and appointments can be added to the overview page of your profile, including roles such as board memberships, editorial responsibilities, consultancy engagements, and other relevant positions. We recommend limiting the content to the most relevant entries to ensure that the section remains brief and accurate.

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.

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.

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.

If you have questions, contact HUM Research Support  or The SDU Library’s Pure Support (puresupport@bib.sdu.dk).

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Last Updated 07.02.2025