Research Information System Replacement

This project will replace the current UL Research Information System, ULRIS, to support UL's Academic and Research objectives. The scope of this project covers the Researcher profile module generation with Elsevier Pure being selected as the preferred system.  

What does it mean for the UL community?

• A new integrated system for researchers (academics, researchers, PhD students) to update their profiles and publish these profiles to the web. 
• Improved visibility of UL’s research outputs in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and allow for the outputs to be displayed, filtered and searched.   
• Enhancement to support externally funded applications by providing capability for UL PI’s to develop their publicly accessible research profile via the new Pure Portal
• A new system will allow researchers to be filtered by a range of criteria including subject area, SDGs, collaborators. 
• Reduce the amount of time researchers need to spend completing their profiles and reduce the associated overheads involved in ensuring profiles are accurate, updated and published.    
• Improved reporting and enhanced data capture which supports rankings returns.  
• Harness data from existing systems e.g. Scopus, Core HR to delivery high quality research profiles.  
• Moving to a best practice system with international footprint.  

Project update

• The project went live in Autumn ’24 as planned and is now in the Ramp phase.
• The Pure portal is now available at: pure.ul.ie.  
• The next phase of the project will be using the tool for Grant Management.