Impact from Elsevier: trusted data, advisory expertise and workflow solutions for better-informed institutional decisions.
Make your data work harder for you
Pure combines research information from across your institution into a single, secure system. Rigorous validation ensures strong data, and unifying core systems gives you greater control. Leaders, libraries and research offices can make more confident decisions, knowing that reliable data is supporting compliancy, underpinning reporting, discovery, and advanced analytics — including responsible AI use.
One trusted source for all your data
Pure gathers all research-related information from your internal systems, plus trusted external sources, and organizes it on a single, secure platform.
Pure integrates with multiple internal systems, including HR, finance, and grant management systems, plus databases such as Web of Science and ORCID. That interconnection removes silos and replication at source, so your whole institution has one consistent view of all research activity. Ultimately, Pure reduces reconciliation work, improves accessibility, and ensures everyone uses the same trusted data.
Why you need a Research Information Management System (RIMS)?
Download now opens in new tab/window
Keep your data accurate and current, automatically
Up-to-date information without manual input — Pure automatically synchronises data across connected systems and external sources.
Shorten administrative to-do lists and reduce outdated records — publications, grants, affiliations, and researcher details are refreshed as changes occur.
Improve your institution’s wider performance — automation strengthens operational efficiency for research offices and libraries. It also makes sure reports, profiles, and downstream processes are always based on reliable data.
More control, less effort
Save time and improve efficiency with automated validation and de-duplication workflows. Pure helps to ensure your research data is accurate, consistent, and trustworthy.
Maintain high data quality at scale, with fewer errors and less reworking. With clear ownership, audit trails, and governance controls, Pure enables reliable reporting, confident data reuse, and consistent inputs into dashboards and analytics.
Keep day-to-day workflows simple. Pure adds all the advantages without adding complexity to everyday workflows.
Support confident data reuse through standards and compliance
Keep up with compliance, make research easy to find, and interoperable. Pure simplifies compliance by tracking funder mandates, open access requirements, and research standards in real-time. Built on international standards such as CERIF and Dublin Core, and supported by ISO 27001 certification, Pure makes sure your research data is secure, simple to locate (inside and outside your institution), and can work with other systems.
Repurposed and ready for AI initiatives. Pure’s standards-based approach also prepares high-quality, well-governed data that can support advanced analytics and responsible AI initiatives.
Configure Pure to meet your institution’s needs
Core Module
Collect, manage, and govern high-quality, interconnected research data in a single secure system.
Portal Module
Showcase validated research publicly to make it easier to find and boost collaboration opportunities.
Community Module
Support collaboration and research prominence across institutions by sharing research projects, expertise and impact.
Award Management Module
Streamline the full grant lifecycle with structured workflows and clear oversight from application to award.
CV Module
Automatically generate standardized, accurate CVs from validated research data, saving time and ensuring consistency.
Reporting Module
Create verified reports and visualizations to support compliance, analysis, and data-informed decision-making.
National Assessment Module
Capture and submit specific data efficiently to support national research evaluation requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
A Research Information Management System (RIMS) is a centralized platform that helps universities and research institutions collect, manage, and make use of their research data. It typically aggregates information from multiple sources — HR, finance, publication databases, and more — into a single authoritative system. Institutions use a RIMS to track research outputs, manage funding and awards, demonstrate impact, and meet reporting and compliance requirements. By unifying research data in one place, a RIMS saves time, improves data quality, and supports more informed, strategic decision-making across the institution.
Yes. Pure is built on a modular architecture, allowing institutions to begin with the capabilities they need most and expand over time. The Pure Core — covering research outputs, funding, researchers and organizational data — forms the foundation. From there, institutions can add the Reporting Module, Pure Portal, Award Management Module, Community Module and national assessment modules such as REF or SEP/KUOZ as their needs evolve. This approach reduces upfront investment, limits implementation complexity and allows institutions to build toward a comprehensive research information management capability at their own pace.
Pure implementation typically takes three months for smaller institutions with minimal integrations, and six to nine months for larger, more complex deployments. Rĭga Stradīņš University — the first institution in Latvia to adopt Pure — completed implementation in three months and achieved 95% researcher uptake in year one.
Pure implementation follows four phases: initiation (scoping data sources and aligning stakeholders), configuration (building the system and data integrations), launch (controlled rollout with training), and post-launch support. Elsevier offers a range of service options, from guided self-implementation through to a fully managed service with a dedicated Implementation Manager. Success depends on clear data ownership and strong stakeholder engagement from the outset.
Pure addresses data quality through automated de-duplication, source prioritization and workflow-driven validation. When data is ingested from multiple sources — publication databases, HR systems and manual input — Pure identifies and merges duplicate records using persistent identifiers such as DOI, ORCID and Scopus Author ID. Institutions configure trusted sources and quality thresholds to determine what is accepted automatically versus routed for human review. Role-based validation workflows then allow editors and administrators to review, approve and enrich records before they are published or included in reports — ensuring only accurate, verified data underpins institutional decision-making.
A RIMS integrates through data synchronization — automatically pulling data from systems where it is actively maintained, such as HR, finance and student records, keeping it continuously up to date. It can also connect to external publication databases like Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed to automate capture of research outputs, as well as to researcher identifier systems such as ORCID. Systems like Elsevier's Pure use standards-based XML data ingestion and a REST API, enabling seamless connection with both institutional systems and a wide ecosystem of third-party platforms.
See the difference Pure can make for your institution.
