Manually Adding Records in Elements | Scribe

Manually Adding Records in Elements

  • Emily Mazure |
  • 15 steps |
  • 2 minutes
  • VtVt
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Navigate to <https://efars.provost.vt.edu/>
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Click the Menu icon.
Click Menu icon
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Click "Scholarly & Creative Works"
Click Scholarly & Creative works
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Click the plus button.
Click plus button
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Click on the type of work you want to add. As an example, click on "Conference paper or presentation"
Click on work type
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We recommend entering in a title or DOI and clicking "Search". This will look in the VT Elements system to see if anything matches. This way if a record of the work has already been created by a co-author you don't need to re-enter it.
enter title or DOI and click search
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Review the possible matches and if any are correct, click the 'Claim' button.
Review and click claim
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If there are no matches, scroll to the bottom and click "Go to next step"
Click go to next step
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Fill out the form with as much details as you know. Make sure to complete any required fields noted with red stars .
Fill out form
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To add co-authors, click "Add another person"
Click Add another person
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Type in the persons first and last name. Click "Add"
Click Add
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The system looks for a matching VT author. If the match is correct, click "Yes"
Review and click yes
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If you are unsure of how to fill in a field, click on the associated question mark for more information.
Click question mark
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Once you have filled in as much information as you know. Click "SAVE"
Click save
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The next page gives you several options to link the record to funding or deposit a version to VTechWorks. If you do not have a file ready yet, you can skip this step for now and revisit it later.
Deposit options