Systems supporting research

Systems to help you through different stages of your journey and capture the information that is essential to your research

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Below you'll find links to all the systems available to the University of Plymouth that will help you through the different stages of your research journey and capture the information that is an essential part of your research.

Research Information System (RIS)

The Research Information System (RIS) is a central hub for all research activity data, making it easy to access, reuse, and share.

It gathers, displays, and analyses content related to research activities. It helps researchers to increase their visibility, comply with open access requirements, find potential collaborators, and create CVs and impact narratives. It also helps research managers and administrators to monitor and analyse research performance, quality and impact across different organisational units.

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Pure

About Pure

Pure is the core element of the University of Plymouth's Research Information System (RIS). It connects with other university systems (human resources, student records, finance), and with external databases like Scopus to collect information about and create relationships between the research outputs, awards, projects, impact and activities associated with our researchers. This information is used for internal reporting and to support evaluation exercises like the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the yearly ResearchFish submission.

Pure populates the University of Plymouth Research Portal.

Log into Pure

University of Plymouth academic and technical staff and postgraduate research students can access Pure at https://pure.plymouth.ac.uk/

Useful links and contacts

University of Plymouth users of Pure can access support and guidance via the RIS Support site.
For any other help or enquiries regarding Pure, please contact ris@plymouth.ac.uk

University of Plymouth Research Portal

About the Research Portal

The University of Plymouth Research Portal, which is powered by Pure, provides open access to information and content related to the University's research. This includes profiles of researchers and research units, publications, datasets, theses, project details and information about the University's research activities. Visitors to the Portal can explore the content using different methods, such as concept and network maps.

The portal is a great tool to explore our experts and areas of knowledge, and to identify possible partners for research projects.

Access the Research Portal

Useful links and contacts

University of Plymouth users can access support and guidance via the RIS Support site.
For any other help or enquiries regarding the Portal, please contact ris@plymouth.ac.uk

The University's research repository – PEARL

About PEARL

PEARL (Plymouth Electronic Archive and Research Library) is the open access research repository & publishing platform for the University of Plymouth. It safeguards, preserves and promotes public access to a growing body of full text outputs, theses and datasets generated through the research activities of the University. PEARL also offers staff an integrated publishing platform for setting up local journals and hosting conferences at Plymouth.

Researchers can deposit outputs to PEARL via Pure. Staff can take advantage of PEARL's features as a publication platform for hosting local conferences or setting up a Plymouth journal by contacting the Library.

Useful links and contacts

PEARL is developed, maintained and supported by Library Research Support Services.
PEARL library guide
For advice and support, please contact your Information Specialist or openresearch@plymouth.ac.uk.

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PEARL

Other systems supporting research

ORCiD
ORCiD is an internationally recognised unique identifier connecting research with researchers, ensuring correct attribution.

Researchfish
An online system used by major UK research funders (including UK Research Councils, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Cancer Research UK) to gather information on the outputs, outcomes and impacts of research that they have funded.

Research Professional
Research Professional is an online database of research funding opportunities and a source of international research policy and practice new. It provides a summary of significant recent research funding opportunities and approaching deadlines.

SciVal
SciVal allows you to visualise your research performance, benchmark relative to peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyse new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports.

Online Surveys
The Jisc online survey tool is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. If you’ve chosen to undertake a survey as part of your research project, the University of Plymouth preferred option is to use Jisc Online Surveys.

Plymouth Ethics Online System
The Plymouth Ethics Online System (PEOS) is a flexible web-based management system to help facilitate and streamline the ethical review process.