[Original text by Marijke van der Ploeg]
And then the time has come … another publication finalized, congratulations! There is just óne more thing to do and that is registering the publication in Pure. A necessary evil? No, because registration is really not that difficult, it shouldn’t take long and you have support nearby. Moreover, Pure offers you, as a researcher, a number of advantages. Below we list some matters concerning import of articles and use of Pure.
The reason to have the researcher import himself, is that you know best what the proper publication data are. Think for instance of the research scope, the DOI and journal data. But you are also the one who has the postprint version (the final accepted user manuscript) in your possession, for you can also import this in Pure. Would you rather not register your publications yourself, you can always leave it to someone else, a so-called trusted user.
Importing publications does not always need to be done manually. There are three more ways to register publications in Pure.
The first is via harvesting from sources such as Web of Science or PubMed. Pure’s advantage is that it has the titles ready for you as candidates under My personal tasks. By clicking Import you can easily gather the publication’s metadata in Pure. When you have a high frequency name such as John Smith, you would better not use this kind of import. The second one is via personal harvesting. Here you look for your publications in other sources and you import them in Pure yourself. Finally
there is the file import for import of several 
titles, for instance from an Excel or RIS file.
For every School goes that the School’s Pure-coördinator takes care of import check and validation, to ensure the import’s quality.
And what does it bring you when a publication has been registered in Pure in the end? More than you initially think. Pure is a registration system for research, all data can be linked: data on research, activities and research output. Pure is also the source file of the Tilburg University Research Portal which is public and freely accessible. It is thé place where Tilburg University presents information on researchers, publications and projects to the public.
Pure offers policy officers extensive possibilities to produce reports, for instance for research reviews. You can also automatically generate publication lists from Pure for, for instance, organization units’ websites. Do you want to import your publications in LinkedIn, ResearchGate or elsewhere? You can simply export data from Pure to Word, Excel, PDF, HTML or RIS (RefMan) and subsequently import to a chosen location.
Finally, and certainly not unimportant: Pure provides a wider reach for your publication! Pure is harvested by Google, Google Scholar and the Dutch science portal NARCIS. The NARCIS content is made available via various other world-wide services, such as WorldWideScience.org and OpenAIRE. A larger reach is a larger visibility with potentially higher impact and citation score!
Geert Duijsters, TiSEM Vice-Dean Research, summarized the registration of a publication in Pure as follows: “Each time after finalizing my publications, registration in Pure is a festive moment!”
For questions on Pure, the Research Portal and related issues you can address the Pure-coördinator of your own School.
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