University of Bristol

University of Bristol has signed with us for Pure following a public tender process earlier in the year.

The implementation project will include dynamic integration with Bristol's HR system. Pure will also be integrated with Bristol's Tribal SITS student administration system, with CODA Finance, and with the university's grant applications and awards management system. These integrations will help establish an inter-related dataset in Pure that includes academic profiles, PGR records and relations, grant applications in all stages, research projects and more.

Advanced PurePortal is part of the implementation project. The portal will exhibit fulltext objects and bibliographic metadata, but may also contain other content from Pure such as Staff, CVs and esteem, Publications, Projects, External collaborators, and more. PurePortal will replace the DSpace-based ROSE repository at Bristol.

Authentication of Pure-users will be done via a local JASIG CAS single sign-on system.

University of Bristol's Pure-system will be able to import from a number of online publication sources including Thomson-Reuters' Web of Science under Web of Knowledge. If the necessary subscriptions include access to citations and impact factors, then this bibliometrics information can be imported and maintained with other information from the same sources.

Finally, the university's Site Manager web CMS and Business Objects solutions will be able to retrieve data from Pure's Web Service API.

Pure will be the primary tool for Bristol's return to the 2014 REF, but the scope for using Pure at Bristol is wider than that and includes provision of continuous reporting based on highly integrated, quality assured data for evidence-based management and development of research activities at the university.

The Pure implementation project will begin this fall and is to be completed by summer 2012.

The University of Bristol (www.bristol.ac.uk) is an international powerhouse of learning, discovery and enterprise. Its vision is of a university whose excellence is acknowledged locally, nationally and globally. The Sunday Times (September 2008) described the University of Bristol as "one of the jewels of British higher education" and "at the cutting edge academically".

The University is a member of the Worldwide Universities Network, a grouping of 18 research-led institutions of international standing, and of the Russell Group of universities, an association of 20 major research-intensive universities of the UK.

The University of Bristol is dedicated to academic achievement across a broad range of disciplines. It is made up of 24 schools, organised in six faculties: Arts; Engineering; Medical and Veterinary Sciences; Medicine and Dentistry; Science; and Social Sciences and Law. It has approximately 12,000 undergraduate and 5,000 postgraduate students from around 100 countries. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, which carried out an institutional audit of the University in 2008, awarded Bristol the highest rating available for its management of education and the academic standards of its awards. It has 31 Fellows of the Royal Society and nine of the British Academy - a remarkable achievement for a relatively compact university.

Bristol supports both individual scholarship and interdisciplinary or thematic research of the highest quality. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 93% of research at Bristol was deemed to be of international standard. Over 61% of the research work assessed in 48 research fields was awarded either the top 4* rating, defined as "world leading", or the 3* rating, classified as "internationally excellent".