As a faculty member, the school/institution may give you permission to add the research work to which you have contributed to your profile.
These intellectual contributions can be included on your CV to enhance it.
Add a contribution
From the menu Research > select Intellectual contributions : to consult/modify existing contributions, or add some new ones.
To add a new contribution: select the blue +Add button at the bottom of the screen.
A window appears, with a number of empty fields to be filled in on several tabs.
(Fields marked with * are mandatory)
The fields and tabs to be completed sometimes depend on the type of contribution selected (e.g. a support tab is added for Article type contributions).
General informations
Fields in this tab are used to identify and qualify the intellectual contribution.
Not all fields are mandatory, but it is advisable to fill in as many as possible, to enhance the value of the intellectual contribution on your CV and to help the institution produce complete reports.
Required fields
- Type of contributions : Journal article, Invited speaker, Book chapter, Book, review, etc.
- Category of contribution: (required for AACSB) Basic discovery, Integration application, Teaching learning, To qualify.
- Category of contribution (AMBA): Discipline-based scholarship, Contributions to practice, Learning and pedagogical.
- Title of the intellectual contribution
- Publication status: in progress, forthcoming, published, rejected
⚠️ If the publication status is published: the year of publication must be entered. - Type of research: (required for EFMD and EQUIS) Disciplin based, Professional, Teaching/Learning, To qualify.
- Level: Department committee, College committee, National, International, Regional, etc.
- Language
Recommended fields
- Year and month of contribution
ℹ️The Year and Month fields are not mandatory, but those informations are useful for the institution’s reports.
The year becomes mandatory if the contribution status is Published. - Acceptance date : the acceptance date is useful for the institution’s reports
- Review committee: the box may be ticked if the contribution has been approved by a review committee. In this case, the contribution will have more value.
- If this research took place during the period of affiliation to the school/institution, tick the ‘Under affiliation’ box and enter the institution affiliation coefficient, when this field is proposed.
- The geographical origin of the contribution: City and Country
- The academic department and discipline in which the contribution is based will enhance the relevance and impact of the contribution, depending on the author’s expertise.
- Choose whether the contribution will be : Published on the CV and/or on the school’s website
⚠️ The fields and tabs presented here are those originally proposed by ACADEM.
The fields and tabs shown, whether mandatory or not, are however customisable and may differ from one institution to another.
Associate a contribution support
For some types of intellectual contribution (articles, book chapters, book direction, etc.), a Media tab appears in the contribution editing window: the name of a publication support must be associated with the contribution in order to save it.
From the Media tab, click on the magnifying glass icon to the right of the search bar, and enter one or more keywords to search for the name of the support in which the contribution is (or will be) published.
Search for the name with inverted commas (e.g. ‘Journal of economics’) to find the exact name of the support in the database.
ℹ️By default, the search is only carried out among the media that correspond to the type of contribution added (e.g. for an Article type contribution, the search is carried out among newspapers only).
Click on the ‘Extend search’ box under the search bar to look for the name of the support among all the media registered in ACADEM.
✅Select the name of the support from the list of results to associate it with the contribution
If the name of the support does not appear in the list of results: click on the blue button to the right of the search box to add the support you want to the list of media saved in ACADEM.
⚠️ The blue button becomes available when at least 3 characters are entered in the search bar.
Add an author
ℹ️Your name is automatically entered as the author’s name, as the contribution is added from your profile.
One or more co-authors or editors can be added for the same contribution, by clicking on the blue + Add button.
A window opens to add the co-author or editor > click on the magnifying glass icon to the right of the search bar to search for the name of the author/editor, among the existing contacts on ACADEM > select the contact to associate from the list of results displayed.
If the contact does not appear in the list of results: click on the blue button, to the right of the search box, to add the contact to the list of contacts saved in ACADEM.
⚠️ The blue button becomes available when at least 3 characters are entered in the search bar.
If the contribution has several co-authors, one of them must be identified as the main author.
Tick the name of the main author in the list of authors: his or her name will appear at the beginning of the bibliographic note.
In this example BERGER is the main author of the contribution.
Other
The Other tab is used to provide more details about the contribution.
- A summary of the contribution is mandatory for research work, and can be written in the two languages set for ACADEM.
- A URL can be added so that the contribution can be consulted online.
- A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) can be entered if the publication is added from an external source. Click on the Import from external source button at the bottom of the editing window.
You can import via the Crossref agency: enter the DOI identifier and click on the Download button. Then import the DOI to add the publication.
The other tabs: Research returns, Citations, History, Links and Attachments, allow you to add additional information about the Contribution.
Save or Submit the contribution
Once you have completed the fields, click on the Submit or Save button at the bottom of the editing window.
- When the contribution is saved: it is saved as a draft, and can therefore be modified/completed if necessary, before being submitted for validation.
- When the contribution is submitted: a validation group, made up of one or more members of the administration team, is informed that the contribution has been added. A member of the group must then validate the contribution so that it can appear in your CV.
⚠️ Once submitted for validation, the contribution can no longer be modified.