University of Groningen Research Portal Pure

Overview

The University of Groningen Research Portal, publicly known as the UG Research Portal, is the official research information system (CRIS) of the University of Groningen (RUG) in the Netherlands. Built on the Pure platform developed by Elsevier, it aggregates and displays all research activities, outputs, and profiles associated with the university and the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG).

History and Development

The portal was registered as a public repository as early as February 2006, according to registry records maintained by Jisc's OpenDOAR and Sherpa Services. It operates under the OAI-PMH protocol (endpoint: https://pure.rug.nl/ws/oai), enabling federated discovery of its contents. Since 1 May 2021, the portal has implemented the Dutch Taverne amendment (Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act), which allows short academic works by UG/UMCG-affiliated researchers to be made open access via Pure six months after publication, even without publisher consent.

Collections and Holdings

The portal covers a broad range of academic disciplines including Arts, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Humanities, Mathematics, Science, Social Sciences, and Technology. Content types include journal articles, bibliographic references, conference and workshop papers, reports and working papers, and books, chapters, and sections. Every UG and UMCG staff member and PhD student has a profile page in the portal. The homepage features a collaboration map showing geographic distribution of co-authorships and affiliations over the previous five years.

Access and Usage

The portal is freely accessible at https://research.rug.nl/en/. Users can search across all content types — researchers, research units, datasets, prizes, activities, and media communications — using a unified search interface with advanced filtering options. Researchers wishing to upload their work to Pure contact the library at pure@rug.nl.