The platform has expanded its technical capabilities to better accommodate diverse academic disciplines and modern administrative requirements. Utilizing these recent updates can further simplify how you manage your profile. [1]
Highlight Key Work with the "Featured Works" Showcase
Instead of letting your most significant achievements get buried under a long chronological list of publications, you can curate your public landing page. [1]
- Select Top Publications: You can handpick up to five books, articles, or major projects to feature at the very top of your profile.
- Control First Impressions: This ensures hiring committees and peers see your most impactful work first, even if it was published years ago.
Catalog Non-Traditional Research and Creative Work
In collaboration with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), 13 specialized work types have been introduced to ensure non-STEM contributions receive accurate metadata tracking. You can officially catalog: [1, 2]
- Conference Presentations: Dedicated metadata fields for slide decks, lecture outlines, and keynote scripts.
- Moving Images and Audio: Accurate tracking for documentary films, recorded performances, scholarly podcasts, and video essays.
- Learning Objects: Direct attribution for interactive teaching materials, open-access syllabi, digital forms, and educational multimedia. [2]
Connect Faster with "Researcher Connect"
The updated platform actively reduces the steps required to link your profile to your home campus. [3]
- Automated Prompts: The registry detects your verified organizational email and automatically asks if you want to sync your profile with your university's local database. [3]
- Affiliation Manager: Universities can now use specialized tools to verify your employment or education history and push that validated data directly to your record, enhancing the credibility of your profile. [4]
Export and Analyze Local Metrics
If you need to analyze your academic output for institutional self-assessments or annual portfolio reviews, you can pull your data into clean spreadsheets. [5]
- Bulk Downloads: You can cache your public "Works" and "Funding" histories into standard
.csvor.xlsxformats. - Metrics Dashboard: This allows you to generate localized charts outlining your publication types, funding distribution over time, and journal presence. [5]
Let me know if you would like to look into:
- How to activate the "Featured Works" showcase on your current layout.
- The exact steps for formatting a non-traditional work type like a video essay or dataset.
- How to use the public API to pull your data into a spreadsheet.