Universities and knowledge institutions globally have a critical role to play in the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
To help researchers demonstrate the ways in which they support the SDGs through collaboration with other countries, the promotion of best practices and the publication of data, new features have been added to PURE so we can tag SDG-specific keywords to Research Outputs and PURE Profiles. These keywords can then be used for reporting, tracking and showcasing purposes. SDG search strings have been developed in PURE with expert involvement; more information on each search string can be found in the dataset Identifying research supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. A complete overview of the SDGs can be found at the official UN SDG website.
Adding SDGs to Research Outputs
Users can add SDG Keywords to research outputs manually, at the time of deposit and we would encourage staff to do this by clicking on ‘Add Sustainable Development Goals…’ at the bottom of the deposit screen.
For those outputs that have already been validated and do not have SDGs tagged to them, the PURE Support team can update them for you. Download the Excel Workbook, add the required information and email to pure-support@ulster.ac.uk . A list of the keywords relating to SDGs is also listed in the workbook.
PURE Portal and SDG Search Filters
When you visit the PURE Portal homepage you can already see how many researchers and outputs relate to the SDGs by clicking on the SDG Icons.
An SDG filter has also been added to the PURE Portal for research outputs and profiles. This serves to highlight SDG-related work on search results pages and help portal users to easily find and navigate to work related to a specific SDG that might be relevant to them.