Getting started with Elements
What is Elements?
Elements is the University of Wollongong’s (UOW) reporting and collection system used for managing the research outputs produced at UOW.
Elements is the data source for:
- UOW Scholars
- Research Online
- Institutional reporting on research outputs
- School and research centre reporting on research outputs
- Reporting on individual academics' research output activity.
Elements is where you manage and update all aspects of your UOW Scholars profile as well as adding the open access version of research outputs to Research Online.
Benefits for researchers
- Manage and keep track of your research outputs for use in grant or promotion applications
- Uses identifiers to automatically claim your research outputs from Scopus, Web of Science and ORCiD
- Authorise Elements to automatically send your research outputs to ORCiD, keeping it up to date
- Ability to edit your UOW academic profile and add open access versions of your work in one place.
Who has access to Elements?
- All continuing, fixed term and contract UOW academic staff, including Dubai and offshore campus employees
- Higher Degree Research (HDR) students.
If you are unable to log in to Elements, please contact the team by email or submit a support ticket directly with the team.
What is UOW Scholars?
UOW Scholars showcases the University of Wollongong’s collective research expertise and academic achievement. Your UOW Scholars profile allows the academic community, external collaborators, media and the general public to easily find you online and learn about your teaching and research at UOW.
Benefits for researchers
- Discoverability of your expertise by search engines such as Google, Google Scholar and Trove
- Showcase your expertise to the international academic community and potential collaborators
- Promote your research and teaching all in one place
- Real time updates.
Who has a UOW Scholars profile?
- All continuing, and fixed term UOW academic staff
- All other UOW staff (casual, sessional, professional or offshore campus staff) can request a profile by contacting the team via email or submitting a support ticket directly.
What is Research Online?
Research Online is the University of Wollongong's open access repository. Research Online provides access to full text scholarly outputs where the author is affiliated with the University. Research Online contains a range of open access publications including UOW theses, journal articles, books, chapters, creative works, and data sets.
Benefits for researchers
- Practitioners can access your work
- Your research can influence public policy
- Public can access your work
- Compliance with grant rules.
Who has access to Research Online?
The works contained in Research Online are publicly available.
Research Online contains the open access versions of the research outputs of past and current UOW staff. It also contains UOW's theses collection.
Quick start guide to Elements & UOW Scholars
There are five actions in Elements (opens in a new tab) to update your UOW Scholars profile:
- Edit your profile in Elements to update About in UOW Scholars
- Edit, and add to, your Research outputs
- Edit, and add to, your Service & leadership positions
- Edit, and add to, your Teaching & supervision to showcase your expertise
- Edit, and add to, your Grants to showcase your funding success.
Note: changes made in Elements will be reflected in UOW Scholars immediately
