Creating a UK Account Tamela Harper, MHA Biomedical Intelligence Reporting Officer Center for Clinical and Translational Science Biomedical Informatics Core
As part of the CTSA Consortium we are encouraged to provide VIVO technology for building collaborations across CTSAs VIVO is an open-source, semantic application originally developed and implemented at Cornell VIVO facilitates discovery of researcher interests, activities, and accomplishments which enables networking capability for scientific researchers across disciplines. Profiles is a research networking and expertise mining software tool that has VIVO technology Creating a Profile is FREE to you!
Three types of information are displayed on your Profile (managed descriptions, passive networks, and active networks) Managed Descriptions include: – Typical demographic information – Automatic PubMed search preloads publications – Manual revisions can be made to publications – Add Award Information about yourself – Add a narrative or photo of yourself
Passive networks can not be edited by you – When common traits are shared by faculty a linkage is made by the software Same department, building, co-author on publication, or used the same MeSH keywords in a publication Active networks can be edited by you – Network is defined by faculty member Search Profiles for faculty to select as a collaborator, advisor, or advisee
Faculty profiles have already been preloaded Login to edit your profile: This software is in the final stages of development and testing phase. Please contact Project Director, Tamela Harper with any concerns. or
Development site: Login using LinkBlue account
Edit your profile
If unable to find your profile when logging in, try searching for your name If you are not preloaded in the system, please contact BMI support, Dongying Zhong at or
Insert Name or Department for faculty search if you are unable to login Currently Faculty profiles loaded
Select by clicking directly on Name
Login using your LinkBlue Account
Edit Your Profile Information
What do you do if basic info is incorrect? Human Resources provides a file with faculty information including Name Title Work Address Phone and Fax Numbers Changes must be made to the master file through SAP for Work Address, phone, and fax number Name or title changes must be made directly with Human Resources Information will not be immediately reflected in Profiles. We receive master file updates from Human resources on a monthly basis.
To update your work address, phone, or fax number, log into LinkBlue myUK Information will not immediately be reflected on your Profile. Updated files are received from Human Resources on a monthly basis.
Select Employee Self-Service tab and Directory Then Select Personal Profile To Edit Work Address, Phone, Fax Click Pencil
Add personnel to edit your profile page as your proxy Must have a profile loaded into Profiles to select as Proxy Staff members are not preloaded To add a staff member profile in the system, please contact BMI support, Dongying Zhong at or
Add a user to update your information Only faculty are preloaded into Profiles- staff members must be added manually. Please contact support staff, Dongying Zhong at or
Proxy must be located within the Profiles database. Proxy needs to add a profile
Manage publication information
Select publications to edit your profile
Delete publications listed incorrectly from initial automatic PubMed search
Add Publications to your profile
Search all possible combinations of your name (with or without initials) Add an affiliation to further narrow the search
Select Search Exclude articles already listed correctly Do not include commas if you don’t publish with them
Select All if applicable If not, select the correct boxes Select Save at end of list when all publications have been selected
Review saved publication listDelete if incorrect Add by PubMed ID or custom if not available in PubMed
Select which category is applicable Abstracts Original Articles Patents Proceedings of Meetings Etc
Create an Active Network Select collaborators, advisors, or advisees to add to your network
To view network, select view details on Profile page To add people to your Network, select a New Search
Add person to your network profile by selecting No Save button on this portion
Search Passive Networks for a collaborator – Internal to UK – External to UK
Search for Collaborators publishing using similar concepts
Make selection
You must log out to refresh your profile connections Select Most Recent for citation listings
Search other Profile Institutions for similar concepts
41 Institutions are registered with profiles Select an institution in which you want to collaborate
Select an expert for more information