FAQ
Reporting dates in Elements
A reporting date is a master date for an object (e.g. a publication, grant, teaching activity or professional activity). It is inferred from, but sepa...
What can a Research Manager do?
The purpose of this article is to explain how you can become a Research Manager, the kinds of activities a Research Manager generally undertakes, and ...
ORCID FAQ
Elements integration with ORCID has become an integral piece of functionality over the past several years. As the interaction between the two system...
Are preprints available through Elements?
In academic publishing, a preprint is a draft of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The peer...
What data does Elements retrieve from the data sources?
Elements publication types Data Source Artefacts Books Chapters Compositions Conferences Datasets Designs Exhibitions Filesets Figures Internet public...
How is the value for Profile Completeness calculated?
By default, every version of Elements has a Data Extract called User profile completeness , which looks at a variety of attributes on the Profile pag...
Does Elements use cookies?
` Yes, Elements issues its own domain-specific cookies to manage user login sessions. It does not use any cross-domain cookies and does not use cookie...
What metrics are available in Elements?
One of Elements' strengths is its ability to retrieve metadata from multiple data sources, including metrics data. This table presents all of the metr...
How does Elements match grant records to each other?
The following data fields are used by the grants matching algorithm to determine if a new record should match with a record already existing in Elemen...
How is the "Is Academic" flag used in the HR data Import?
Occasionally, we are asked whether it is necessary to have the Is Academic field correctly populated in the HR data Import. The simple answer is 'ye...
How to manage the h-index in Elements
The h-index is a good indicator of the completeness of users publication data in Elements. Any discrepancies that are found with the h-index in othe...
What versions of browsers are supported by Elements?
As the complexity of Elements grows, the cost of supporting a large number of platforms has an increasing impact on our speed of delivery and qualit...
How does Elements match publication records to each other?
As new publication records are harvested, Elements checks whether they match any publication records already in the system. Certain bibliographic data...
What is Offline Search?
Offline Search is a background Synchroniser process that looks for new links between users and their publications or grants that Elements has previous...
What are the different relationships types in Elements?
Elements gives you the ability to create relationships (links) between the different aspects of your research: Publications Grants Professional activi...
What can a Statistician do?
Users who have been assigned the ‘Statistician’ role for a group have usage rights over that group’s data. This includes any sub-groups below it in th...
Why is the bibliographic author name not correctly resolved/hyperlinked to the appropriate user profile?
Elements offers functionality to allow the association of an author name in bibliographic metadata with the corresponding user of Elements. These asso...
What can a Research Information Verifier do?
This article is about the Research Information Verifier role. Essentially, the role is a bibliographic checking role to increase the quality of manual...
Teaching Activities - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
This article answers some common questions, points to best practice considerations, and provides links to relevant documentation for the Teaching Acti...
What distinguishes a Primary Group from an Auto Group?
Primary Groups, like auto groups, automatically maintain an accurate membership list from data in the user feed. However, there are important differen...
Which data sources are available in Elements?
This article provides a description about data sources in Elements . More details about configuring these sources are available in the Data source c...
Why is the database search failing or missing publications?
These search 'trouble-shooting FAQs' are also found in the User Guide document, 'Trouble-shooting guide for search settings'. This document is automat...