Research profiles

The Collaboration Map, Affiliations, Citations and H-index of your outputs are all available on your profile.  By default, the Collaboration Map is turned on, Affiliations is set to Flinders University and, both metrics are visible.

To make changes:

1. Login to ResearchNow and in the Personal tab, select Edit profile. 
2. In the pop-up that appears, select Portal profile in the left-hand pane menu.
3. In each section, use the toggle and radio buttons to turn some, or all of these features off.
4. Click on Save & Close to save any changes.

Refer to Bibliometrics for more information.

Highlighted content provides you the ability to customise the visibility of the top five outputs, activities, prizes, awards, and projects showcased on your public portal's overview landing page.

ResearchNow limits the display of items under each of these categories to five on the overview page, presenting the most recent achievements first. You may have a publication or project from some time ago that you wish to prominently display; the highlighted content feature in ResearchNow enables you to handpick up to five items to featuring under each of these headings on your overview page.

1. Login to ResearchNow and in the Personal tab, select Edit profile. 
2. In the pop-up that appears, select Highlighted content in the left-hand pane menu.
3. If you have any outputs, activities, prizes, awards or projects on your profile, a tabbed section will be visible, with a separate tab for up to each of the five content options.  Each tab is labelled with an intuitive icon.
4. Select the tab of the content type you want to highlight content from.
5. Select the + icon to open a search bar.
6. Type in the search bar for the items you want to feature on your home page.
7. Choose the item that you want to highlight by selecting from the list.
8. Repeat steps 5-7 to add more items to the same category, or repeat steps 4-7 if you want to highlight content under another area.
9. Reorder the content by using the up/down arrow buttons. Remove items using the – (minus) button.
   NOTE: Once you have selected five objects for a content type, you won’t be able to search for more until you remove some.
10. Click on Save & Close to save any changes.
    

You can create a dynamic Curriculum Vitae (CV) within ResearchNow, using profile and research data in ResearchNow. This CV can be either public on your profile or private.

1. In the Personal tab just under your name, click Add curriculum vitae.
   
2. In the pop-up, choose the type of Curriculum Vitae (CV) to create - Public CV or Private CV. NOTE: Once published, a public CV is available on the public portal. A private CV on the other hand is only visible to you.
3. Select the sections you would like included in the CV and select Create:
   Personal profile - information in your Personal Overview page such as name, legal title, college, centres and other affiliated areas, phone number, and email address.
   Profile information - information entered about you.
   List of employments - positions outside of the institution and internal positions within Flinders University.
   Text – heading, text section and periodic list. If you choose headings and text section(s), you can add an additional heading and section name. Periodic list displays a generic year and journal name which can be edited when selected.
4. To add a section to the CV, hover over the space under a section until a green line appears, and Select the green line or select Add section.
   To edit, reposition or delete a section, hover over the left side of a section until a menu appears. Select the appropriate button for the desired action.
   By default, some sections in the CVs in ResearchNow are dynamic. When new content is added, it is automatically added to the CV.
   To turn this feature off, choose to Edit the section, select Make static, and select OK.
5. If a public CV was created, tick Publish to publish the CV on your profile on the ResearchNow Portal.
   Select Save to save the CV for later use. To export the CV as a PDF or Word document, select the appropriate button.

Handy Hints:

Use the Add section buttons to order the research output by type. For example: Set the first section to show book chapters, the next section to show journal articles etc.

To restrict the types of research output included in the CV:

• Hover over the left side of the research output section until a menu appears. Select Edit.
• Tick the types of research output you would like included in the CV.
  
• Select OK.
  

To change the format, ordering or list style of the CV:

• Hover over the left side of the research output section until a menu appears. Select Edit
• Select on the existing setting. A drop-down menu appears. Make any desired changes.
• Select OK.

1. On the Personal tab, under your name, click on [download icon] FAAR.
   The FAAR template that you have available for download will depend on your organization unit, and whether FAAR templates have been created for that organization unit. If no templates have been created for your organization units then only the standard FAAR template will be available for download.
2. Download FAAR in PDF or Word format
   If downloading as a Word document, the Personal Statement section can be populated (if this was included in the template)

NB: Researchers are not able to create their own FAAR templates. FAAR templates can only be created by Administrator of FAAR or Editor of FAAR roles. These roles can create templates, edit existing templates (depending on global or organization levels), download batches of FAAR reports at organisation unit or person level and send out notifications.

ResearchNow is configured to send default email, message and task notifications with the same content.  The difference is that message and task notifications are only accessible while logged into ResearchNow, while emails are notifications are sent to your inbox via email.

It is recommended that you retain default settings for all notifications until you are familiar with the system.

If you want to configure your settings, first monitor the notifications you receive and only then make changes. If you change the settings without understanding their impact you may not be alerted of an important notification. 

To modify your email settings:

1. Click on your user ID located in the top right corner of the ResearchNow header banner.
2. A pop-up appears. Click Email settings in the left-hand pane menu.
   In the main window of the pop-up, the content types and workflow related tasks are listed on the left.  The frequency of emails for each content type are listed on the right.
3. Click on an existing Email frequency. A drop-down menu appears. Adjust the frequency as needed.
4. Click Save & Close.

To modify your message settings:

1. Click on your user ID located in the top right corner of the ResearchNow header banner.
2. A pop-up appears. Click Message settings in the left-hand pane menu.
   In the main window of the pop-up, the content types and workflow related tasks are listed on the left.  The messages included in the system for each content type are listed on the right.
3. Uncheck the tick boxes for any activities you no longer wish to receive message notifications for.
4. Click Save & Close.

To modify your task settings:

1. Click on your user ID located in the top right corner of the ResearchNow header banner.
2. A pop-up appears. Click Task settings in the left-hand pane menu.
   In the main window of the pop-up, the content types and workflow related tasks are listed on the left.  The messages included in the system for each content type are listed on the right.
3. Uncheck the tick boxes for any activities you no longer wish to receive task notifications for.
4. Click Save & Close.

ResearchNow uses a 'fingerprint' mechanism to facilitate collaboration between researchers worldwide. A fingerprint is an index of weighted terms visualised according to their weight and is built using the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine. It mines research output abstracts to define the fingerprint concepts.  

A Fingerprint can be created for Researchers and Organisations.

The overlapping concepts of fingerprints among researchers, along with their shared work and organisational affiliation define the suggestion of similar profiles that appears in Similar Profiles module in ResearchNow.

To omit and re-add concepts from fingerprints in ResearchNow:

1. On the Personal tab, click on Edit profile.  A pop-up appears.
2. Select Fingerprints from the left-hand pane menu to reveal the list of all concepts with which you are associated.
3. To omit an unwanted concept:
   1. Hover over it to reveal the X sign. 
   2. Select the X to omit this concept. The omitted concept is displayed below.
4. To re-add an omitted concept:
   1. Hover over the omitted concept to reveal the + icon.
   2. Select on it to re-add the concept.
5. Click Save & Close to save any changes.