Research Services: Creative Practice: Recording your Research in Pure

Uploading your Creative Practice Research to Pure

The Pure template for Creative Practice Research is known as Non Textual Form, This template type offers a variety of different sub categories which will allow you to record details of your output, including:

Each template will provide you with space to put details of your work such as location and date. You should use the Abstract field as a free text box to describe your work in as much detail as possible. You can upload files to this record you don't need to make these open access unless you would like to. The current file limit on a Pure record is 500MB.

Create a record in Pure

Why you should Record your Research as you Go

Future Proofing

REF and Research cycles can last years. By recording as you go and creating an archive of your work it means it is easier for you to put together information for grant proposals and submissions. If you have a record in Pure you can also use Pure's reporting or CV functions to draw down information

Creating a Personal Archive as a way to Preserve

You will often work across multiple sites and locations, from galleries and concert halls to online websites. It is therefore hard to capture what is essentially ephemeral. 

One of the main things to consider is how to preserve details of your work for example an exhibition and importantly not to rely on external websites. Venue websites are not repositories and often time the details of the event will be taken down after a short time, potentially leaving you with no evidence that you were there at all. 

This also applies to sites you might create such as a project website that are paid for with a grant and have an expiration date shortly after the end of the grant. You may want to evidence of that website for future proposals or to demonstrate your work.

Archive in Pure

You can use Pure to archive items relating to your research. You do not have to make the files open on the repository but they will be there for you to use them when you need. 

Screen Grabs - If you take screen grabs from webpages you can upload these to Pure in the Other Files section of the Pure Record. See the University Knowledge Base on How to Take a Screenshot

Photographs - You can store compressed images in Pure. The current size limit on a Pure record is 4GB. If your file is too large see the University Knowledge Base on How to Compress an image file

Digital Copies - You can story electronic copies of files - such as posters. The current size limit on a Pure record is 4GB. If your file is too large see The University Knowledge Base on How to Compress an image file

Add the Link - If you have created and manage an account in a hosting and sharing platforms such as SoundCloud and Youtube you can add this link to Pure in the electronic versions section

Digitise Physical Items - 

If you have physical items it may be possible to digitise them and upload that image to Pure. Contact eprints@soton.ac.uk with as much detail as possible and we will work with you and our Digital Scholarship Team to facilitate this if we can.

Obtain Online Archive Permissions

If you are using a 3rd party website hosting service for a project (such as Wix) make sure you have selected the option that gives you archive permissions. Without these permissions you may not be able to reuse your content in other ways. 

For other help or advice with any Pure outputs or institutional repository (ePrints Soton) query email eprints@soton.ac.uk or request an online appointment: