RSU Research Portal
The portal contains information about the scientific achievements, research accomplishments, and collaborative activities of the university's academic staff.
The Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) Research Portal collects information on the research output and activities of the academic and research staff at RSU: publications, projects, awards, research activities, data sets, presentations, communication, press and media, and more.
The portal is publicly available and allows for RSU to demonstrate its academic and research achievements, to visualise and communicate scientific performance, and share research results obtained by, or in cooperation with RSU. The RSU Research Portal promotes communication and cooperation with the university’s researchers and research groups. The portal provides an accurate, dependable, and complete compilation of RSU's research performance.
The RSU Research Portal displays the information that has been added to the RSU Current Research Information System (ZDIS Pure). It is the RSU's new research information management system, in which information on the research performance of various departments and academic staff is added, aggregated and maintained. Data collected in ZDIS Pure is used to create reports, track the progress that has been made in meeting an organisational unit’s objectives, establish researchers’ transparent profiles, promote the development of research networks and to disseminate knowledge, prepare scientific activity reports for external institutions, while reducing the administrative burden on researchers and administration.
User training
The RSU Research Department offers individual consultations on the use of ZDIS Pure. The consultations provide information on how to add research results to the system, create a researcher profile, obtain detailed reports, and use the RSU research portal for communication activities.
We offer consultations on the following topics:
- Adding publications – manually entering publication descriptions (books, journal articles, conference abstracts) and resolving individual issues.
- Configuring a profile – adapting a profile for public and work environments, obtaining added results in the desired format.
- Adding research results – adding activities (participation in events, associations, visits abroad, etc.), awards, and media appearances to your profile.
- Consultations with administrative staff – obtaining results from structural units, selecting data, and preparing reports.
If you need a consultation in Latvian or English, please write to pure[pnkts]help
rsu[pnkts]lv, and we can agree on a convenient time.
Implementing ZDIS Pure at RSU
The implementation of our ZDIS Pure was initiated in 2020. Public access to the Research Portal was launched in March 2021, followed by data uploads and intense training sessions of RSU employees. The process of improving the portal has not stopped for a moment, and we continue implementing new solutions to reflect the full range of our scientific results and activities.
Elsevier, the developer of Pure, has recognised RSU as one of the most successful implementers of the system. The case study tells the story of how we achieved it and what was the key to our success.
