My Publications
My Publications is a research management system that automates the collection of research outputs.
If you're a La Trobe University (LTU) researcher, My Publications will use your name, affiliation and researcher identifier (e.g. ORCID) to automatically and continuously search electronic databases to bring in your publications.
This record of research outputs is used by the University for internal and external reporting requirements, including Academic Workload Planning (AWP). Research outputs include journal articles, conference papers, books and chapters, government reports, creative works, exhibitions and audio-visual recordings.
Using My Publications
As an LTU researcher or higher degree by research (HDR) student, you should log in to My Publications when you publish items to ensure:
- all authored and co-authored works are claimed
- any publications that are not yours are rejected
- you add any missing publications or creative works
- any research outputs that are behind a paywall (i.e. not immediately open access) have the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version deposited into LTU's institutional repository, OPAL.
View the help guide for more information about using My Publications.
Contact us
For assistance or more details, please use our research query form and someone from the Library Research Support team will respond.
Note: While the Library has responsibility for coordinating the collection of research publication data through the My Publications system, the Research Office is responsible for all reporting by department, research centre or college and government submissions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Use your regular LTU account to access My Publications.
Note: Graduate Researchers should log in with your staff account rather than your student one (e.g. using 'JBloggs@ltu.edu.au' rather than '12345678@students.ltu.edu.au').
If you have trouble accessing My Publications, please report the problem to the Library.
All eligible research outputs from staff and HDR students, including: books, book chapters, journal articles, conference proceedings, research reports for an external body, original creative works and exhibitions.
Your work will achieve more recognition and your research outputs will count for the University’s annual research publication data collection.
If you're both a HDR student and an LTU employee, your research output can also help the University achieve another outstanding result in the next Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA).
If you have both a staff account and a student account, you should login with your staff credentials.
All LTU authors and co-authors must claim their own publications regardless of the number of authors.
The My Publications system can take up to 24 hours to run a harvest after entering in a name change. Please be patient and check again the following day.
If there are still no publications, it may be that there are no LTU-affiliated publications under that form of your name for the collection period, or they are not represented in the harvested databases. You may need to enter these manually.
Fields of Research (FoRs) are defined by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) 2020, which categorises research according to common knowledge domains and/or methodologies used in research.
For more information about FoR classification, please consult the Australian Bureau of Statistics website.
Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) defines NTROs as: original creative works; live performance of creative works; recorded/rendered creative works; curated or produced substantial public exhibitions and events; research reports for an external body.
To verify the research output, we'll need evidence of your work in the most appropriate form possible. This might be a recording of a dance, scan of an exhibition catalogue, photo of a sculpture or a combination of types. If the evidence is a DVD, the Library will convert it to digital format for storage and accessibility. If the evidence is a URL, an archived copy will be kept in perpetuity.
Contact the Repository team to submit your work.
My Publications requires Research Statements for all NTROs. Please refer to the following guide for details.
Note: You can also find this guide via the '?' next to the 'Research Statement' field in the My Publications manual submission window.
Reports or other outputs that are sensitive in nature and submitted as part of the Annual Collection or ERA will be restricted. This means that your publication will not be made publicly available.
Contact the Repository team or use the research query form if you have any questions about the process or the security of the report.
Accountability is shared between the Library, Research Office and Information Services. The Research Publications Governance Framework outlines the allocation of responsibilities to each area.
View the Research Publications Governance Framework [PDF 131KB]
Please contact your supervisor or Head of Department for further information.
You can also refer to the following resources (for LTU staff only):