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FACULTY: 

• View your RSC accomplishments as captured from online scholarly databases, and add additional content that’s not pre-populated 
• Update and curate your profile to reflect RSC interests and areas of expertise 
• Identify potential collaborations with other UM colleagues 
• Produce CVs, biosketches, and formatted data for reporting and grant activities  

STAFF:

• Promote programs, projects, and research initiatives on campus 
• Discover opportunities for collaboration or outreach initiatives 
• Assess and measure impact 
• Produce reports for donors, funders, and university staff 

STUDENTS:

• Discover mentors and make connections across campus
• Learn about current research activities
• Explore academic interests and future career options

• For general questions, concerns, and technical assistance email the UM IMPACT team
• For questions about using UM IMPACT in conjunction with our funding prospecting tool, , email Katherine Swan.

No. UM IMPACT (sponsored by the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship) is intended to help faculty across disciplines describe their RCS story and trumpet their achievements.

The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship (ORCS) has been working for several years to create a user-friendly, comprehensive platform to elevate and disseminate the remarkable RCS contributions of UM faculty and research staff across disciplines. UM IMPACT, the publicly accessible portal built on the Pure research information management system developed by Elsevier, has been designed for this purpose and supports ORCS’ goals for collecting and showcasing the accomplishments of UM Faculty. 

Interfolio, also an Elsevier product, is in development by the Provost’s office. Interfolio’s purpose focuses on Individual Performance Reporting, annual review, promotion and tenure, and hiring. The Provost’s office will coordinate with Deans and Departmental Chairs to implement Interfolio and will train faculty in its use. Interfolio and Pure are complementary systems, but have unique functions. Both will support faculty in highlighting their work for distinct internal and external audiences, respectively. Implementation teams for both platforms will work together to streamline efforts and assist faculty in their use. 

UM IMPACT contains profiles for a selection of active full-time tenured and tenure-eligible faculty and those with research title series appointments. While it does not contain profiles for all faculty and staff, it is intended to be inclusive, populated with profiles from scholars across disciplines.  

If you or someone you know needs a profile created, please complete the .   

• Publications and Performances encompass more than just traditional textual publications, such as journal articles, conferences papers, and book chapters. In addition to different kinds of textual outputs, you can add information about digital or visual products, performances, exhibitions, and more. 
• Engagement includes oral presentations, editorial and peer review work, public engagement, work as a consultant, committee membership, or any other professional activity you would like to highlight. If you want to add an activity and can't find a type that fits, contact the UM IMPACT team for assistance. 
• Prizes include any type of medal, honor, or award, as well as competitively awarded fellowships. 
• Press/Media items include public comments and appearances you make as an expert in your field. When possible, include a link to the item. 
• Grants/Funding are automatically imported from Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) records, which include grants you receive from external funders. You can add grants from internal Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ sources or grants that are administered outside of the University. Adding grants to your UM IMPACT profile is especially useful if you want to link your research outputs with the grants that funded the research. Note that if you add a grant, it must be linked to a Project if you want it to appear in the UM IMPACT portal. 
• Projects in UM IMPACT are usually associated with Grants, but Projects can also stand alone. Projects are useful for grouping together related work or collaborators. If a Grant is imported from OSP, there will be a Project with the same name. 
• Activities include conference participation, invited lectures, external academic engagement, editorial work, peer reviewing, public engagement, and the like.  

That’s expected, and totally fine! UM IMPACT is intended to capture the rich diversity of RCS impact across the breadth of disciplines at Ñý¼§Ö±²¥. This means that any individual, or discipline, may have nothing to report in some (or many) of the categories. Likewise, we know that not every RCS metric for every discipline could be included. If necessary, additional categories can be added in and the UM IMPACT team can add new metrics categories to the front-end module as needed. If you are unsure about where to enter the information about your item, please send an email to the UM IMPACT team. 

UM IMPACT relies on a number of sources for data, including:

• Scopus
• Grant and contract data from the Office of Sponsored Programs
• Manual entry from users, especially for RCS outputs that are difficult to automate (performances, exhibitions, etc.)

• Basic professional profile information such as individual title(s), UM affiliation(s), RCS interest descriptions, keywords, work contact information, and educational background
• Research and scholarly output, including, but not limited to, publications, digital and visual works, plays, exhibitions, patents administered through the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥
• Awarded grants and contracts administered through the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥

Anyone may view content through the .

To update profiles, add new content, or correct existing information, users can submit the form, and the UM IMPACT Administrator will update your profile accordingly. Alternatively, users can and make edits to their Profile.

UM IMPACT is updated weekly. Please note that various data sources automatically update at different times throughout the week.

Google Scholar uses a web crawler, or web robot, to identify files for inclusion in search results. It indexes traditional forms of scholarly literature that are available online, such as peer-reviewed online academic journals, books, conference papers, and abstracts. Therefore, Google Scholar covers only one slice of a much larger range of RCS activities at UM. 

In addition to those traditional scholarly outputs, UM IMPACT also includes non-traditional, offline, and emerging forms of RCS. In short, UM IMPACT allows you to input and showcase a much fuller array of RCS activities and accomplishments. 

ScholarWorks is a repository that provides open access to the files associated with your RCS activities. In other words, ScholarWorks provides access to the tangible content, such as journal articles, reports, datasets, and other types of RCS output, not just to metadata about that content. For more information about ScholarWorks, or to inquire about adding your content to ScholarWorks, please send an email to Digital Initiatives Librarian, Wendy Walker.

UM IMPACT can include a full (or curated) list of the full range of your RCS activities and accomplishments. UM IMPACT will provide all the bibliographical information about your RCS activities, but it will not include the files associated with those activities. Please DO NOT upload files to UM IMPACT. ScholarWorks is where files should be uploaded.  

UM IMPACT is meant to publicly showcase your RCS activities and accomplishments via a professional profile. Your profile includes your name, position title, departmental affiliation(s), and as much information about your RCS activities as you would like to include and make public. 

You should not include information such as your personal phone number, personal email, or any other private information. If there are RCS activities that you deem private, you do not need to include them in your profile. 

You can view and search without signing in using the .

To , you will have to log in. UM IMPACT login is managed by single sign on. Log in using your NetID credentials to view, update, and edit an existing profile. 

Trained college and departmental staff may also have access to update or edit your profile. To grant access to a delegate user, please send an email to the UM IMPACT team. 

You can edit or remove most of the fields in your profile by clicking Edit Profile after you have logged in. You will land in the Metadata window, where you can edit the fields by using the instructions outlined below. 

Click the Save button in the Edit Profile window to retain changes. 

To manually add an RCS activity to a user profile:

• Select the green +Add New button on the right of the screen. 
• Select the category of RCS activity from the menu on the left. 
• Once the required questions have been answered, select the Save button at the bottom of the page.   

There are several fields that you are unable to edit directly, including: Name; Unit Affiliation; Job Title; Email Address; and Profile Visibility.  

Synchronized fields that are preset to refresh daily are not able to be edited. If you feel that the fields in your Profile are incorrect, please send an email to the UM IMPACT team. 

Publications are currently imported automatically during the weekly sync process. To receive notifications from these online resources, users must enable them in their profile:

• Login and click Edit Profile. Select Automated Search from the left-hand menu. Sources available are configured by Administrators.
• Enable the sources from which you wish to import your publications.
• Users will be asked to add their author ID or name variants as the basis for the search. 
• Select Save at the bottom of the screen to save changes. 

If you prefer not to turn on automated searches for the online resources, or wish to access a database which currently does not feature automated searches, there is the option to create a single search. This will provide results for a search parameter at the time of the search, but will not send notifications when new content is added. Users may select the publications they wish to import. 

• Log into UM IMPACT
• Select and the green + Add New button on the right
• When the pop-up window appears, select Research Output, then select Import from Online Source
• Select the online resource you wish to search
• Enter the information in the search box and select Search

A list of publications containing the search parameters should appear. You have the option to Import or Remove them.

You can choose to highlight up to 5 publications so that they appear at the top of your research output overview. To select research outputs for highlighting: 

• Login and select Edit Profile.
• Select Highlighted Content in the menu on the left side of the editing display. 
• Select the Open Book icon and click the plus button (+) to open a search bar.
• Type the title of the desired work, and then select that work from the list.
• Repeat this step up to four times to highlight 5 RSC outputs.
• Select Save at the bottom of the screen to save changes.