Academic profiles
The University’s Academic Profiles system makes La Trobe research more visible and highlights the capabilities and track record of our researchers.
An academic profile showcases a researcher’s work, including biographical details, publications, collaborations, grants, expertise and professional activities.
Keeping your profile up to date
The information displayed in your academic profile comes from several sources:
- Name and position information comes from HR.
- Grants and other funded research information comes from PRIME.
- Publications and Research Outputs information comes from My Publications.
- All other information (e.g. biography, tags and professional activities) is entered by you in My Publications.
For more information, including how to edit your profile, refer to our guide.
Frequently asked questions
All academic staff and graduate researchers automatically receive a profile.
Professional staff can submit a request for a profile, however, this is subject to approval from the Research Office.
Note: If you have just commenced your job or course, it may take a few days for your My Publications account to appear.
Your academic profile includes publications information from My Publications, grants information from PRIME and other information that you can add yourself, including your bio, professional and teaching activities etc. Regular updates occur from other trusted sources, including from the HR system for personal details (name, honorific, department and contact details).
You can edit your profile by logging into My Publications and selecting ‘Edit profile’.
You can add or hide publications listed on your academic profile via My Publications. If publications are missing, you can manually add them. You can also reject publications that are not yours. In some cases, you will want to merge duplicate entries for the same item. See the guide to managing your publications [PDF 657.4 KB].
Note: If you want to hide a publication, and a co-author at La Trobe University does not also want to hide it, then it will still be displayed in the Academic Profiles system.
My Publications data is updated to the Academic Profiles system within a couple of minutes. Publications harvested automatically for you will appear in your profile once they are claimed. You can activate the claim via the 'Claim as mine' button.
Keywords in the Academic Profiles system are built in and associated with your listed publications. You can add or hide keywords in My Publications by editing your profile, locating the 'Labels' section and then selecting 'Manage labels' for 'Expertise'.
New keywords can be added by contacting the Library Research team.
Profile titles come though the HR system and cannot be changed manually. If yours is incorrect, please contact the Library Research team and we'll work with HR to have this fixed. Depending on the source of the problem, a correction may happen overnight. If the official notification is delayed, it may take 1-2 weeks or longer.
Contact us
If you have any questions or require more information about your academic profile, please get in touch.