Faculty Success: University Libraries Enhancing Scholarly Communication Technology and Support

With support from the Office of the Provost, University Libraries provides faculty innovative services such as ORCID.  With the service entering its second year at Seton Hall University, ORCID is a persistent unique identifier for scholars to use to ensure their scholarship is located in one place. This service provides Seton Hall faculty and graduate students with better statistics and better trust markers for credibility. ORCID is an excellent way for faculty to generate a portfolio for scholarship and can easily facilitate import or export of data into systems that Seton Hall are using such as Faculty Success, which is the faculty activity tracking system used at Seton Hall.

Ania Calka, Ph.D., director of advising and technology integration in the Office of the Provost states that,

It’s been a pleasure to collaborate with the University Library on integrating ORCID into Faculty Success. The library staff did an outstanding job in preparing our promotion and tenure candidates to best showcase their Faculty Success portfolios. Currently, Natalie Lau is working closely with the Office of the Provost to train faculty on using ORCID to better transition to Faculty Success Web Profiles. Now, faculty members have self-service access to customize their web profiles and can instantly highlight their teaching, scholarship and service. We are excited to see how these tools will continue to enhance faculty visibility and support their academic growth in the future.

Scholarly metrics reports are put together by the University Libraries using multiple sources to quantify faculty scholarly output. This can be helpful to keep on top with faculty readership and reach as a researcher or scholar in your discipline. Scholarly Metrics include circulation numbers, citation counts, journal acceptance rates, impact factors and rankings.  They also may include Scopus statistics and PlumX Metrics.  Additionally, book publisher reputation, news and social media coverage can convey the reach of scholarship. The University Libraries can tailor reports with any discipline-specific metrics, and we can discuss and educate on traditional or holistic metrics.

Nicole Hansen, Ph.D., assistant professor, Education Studies, used the scholarly metrics report for her tenure packet. Hansen comments that,

the library was so responsive and helpful when I was preparing my rank and tenure materials. Natalie Lau and Victor Eubanks took the time to meet with me early in the summer when I was assembling my materials and were able to put together metrics including my citations over time, impact factors, acceptance rates and more. They even went above and beyond in helping me link various accounts, such as ORCID and Scopus, and helping me consider the best way to maintain a digital presence and spread the word about my work. I’d recommend anyone going up for tenure or promotion reach out to the library staff to see how they can best help – it’s a fantastic resource that we have here at Seton Hall University.

SelectedWorks/BePress, the library’s current faculty profile system for scholarly output, will be upgraded to Pure by Elsevier with a tentative launch date of January 2025. University Libraries have been working hard to manage the updates and individual profiles. Pure will integrate with ORCID and Scopus, providing a fantastic ecosystem for digital scholarship for Seton Hall to automatically populate your profile.

Scholarly metrics reports are now required for rank and tenure/promotion workflows, please fill out this form or contact erepository@shu.edu. For additional questions about ORCID or other scholarly communication services, please email natalie.lau@shu.edu. 

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