Faculty Profiles Interest Group

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Last updated: Jul 24, 2018 by Carmen Mitchell
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ScholarWorks Faculty Profiles Interest Group

Note: All of the content below should be considered in DRAFT. This can be finalized prior to STIM approval or as the first task of the IG.

Domain

Faculty profile pages are a necessary piece of a comprehensive CSU Institutional Repository ecosphere. This interest group aims to identify the best tool(s) to offer, best-practices for profile pages, and a guidance on building a bidirectional faculty profile system for ScholarWorks.

Shared Needs and Requirements

Interest group participants should have some interest in faculty profile pages. Should have a campus “portal” or central site for lists of faculty publications.

  • Linking, preferably in an automated manner, to the CSU repository scholarship.
  • Connection to PeopleSoft to automate directory information and maintain profiles of current faculty.
  • Ability for individual faculty members to view and edit their own profiles, see usage statistics, and get email reports.
  • Ability to export research and other activities for grant writing activities, such as exporting a BioSketch for NSF.
  • Administrator editing of profiles is possible; i.e. the library or other stakeholders on campus can help faculty to create their profiles and keep them current.
  • Automated citation indexing from various citation databases and services (i.e. Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, ORCID).
  • Ideally, integration with other profiles systems would be considered (Fresca, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, etc.).
  • Ability to track grants/funding information.


Use Cases

  • Faculty profile pages. (Sometimes called “expert directory.”)
  • Link to PeopleSoft /link to the directory.
  • Track research output/statistics.
  • Biographical sketch export. (Will make grant writing process easier.)
  • Some campuses are using management tools for RTP process. How to track research output for RTP process and make sure it is consistent?
  • “Experts database” for campus communications departments.
  • Look at Texas A&M for a consortial installation of VIVO.
  • Work with ULMS Coordinating Committee to explore linking/Open URLs to faculty publications that are in databases.
  • Tracking collaborations/co-authors that are outside the CSU.

Deliverables & Timeline

  • Survey the campuses to see who is doing what for faculty profiles.
  • Recommendations for an open source faculty profile system that can be connected to ScholarWorks. (VIVO?)
  • Documentation/training for working with faculty profiles, including information on authors rights for faculty.
  • Assisting with planning the CSU IR meeting


The target for these deliverables should be the LibIT/ScholarWorks meeting during the Summer of 2018.

Participating

Facilitator: Carmen Mitchell, CSUSM

Participating Institutions/Members:

(This should be no less than 3, and no more than 6 institutions)