Elements Annual Reporting System

Elements

For your 2024 Annual Reports School of Business, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Nursing, and the Milken Institute School of Public Health will use Elements. You may access your accounts through the following link:

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Elements Resources

Comprehensive Research Management System

Centralized Data Management

  • Integrates data from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive organizational overview.
  • Reduces delay while showcasing research impact.

Beyond Traditional RIM Systems

  • Includes tools for managing research funding, awards, equipment, technology profiles, and assessments.

Key Features

  1. Research Data Collection & Reuse: Automatically captures research output data from internal and external sources.
  2. Showcase Academic Achievements: Create public-facing profiles that highlight expertise, publications, grants, and more.
  3. Simplify Faculty Reports: Streamline reports with automated data workflows and generate CVs from user profiles.
  4. Streamline Open Access Compliance: Automate publication deposits into public repositories.
  5. Monitor and Demonstrate Research Impact: Track impact indicators, plan activities, and create case studies with a dedicated Impact module.
  6. Support Research Assessments: Use configurable workflows for submissions, peer reviews, and promotions.

Elements and your Academic History

The Elements categories for Academic History are:

  • Publications (Research/Scholarship)
  • Grants
  • Professional Activities (Service)
  • Teaching Activities 

Elements and your Annual Report

The Annual Report is a strictly confidential document. Please review the Elements Annual Report Guide for Faculty, for instructions on completing your Annual Report. 

As this is our first year using Elements, there will be a learning curve for faculty in getting used to the new system and curating your profile with the automated publication harvesting and the migrated data from Lyterati. Please direct all questions you have during the process to [email protected], and we will respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible. 

Confidentiality

The University is committed to maintaining the levels of confidentiality that are expected within a prized academic community. Access to confidential personnel and financial information is limited to authorized entities at GW. To prevent your academic history data from being searched by other faculty, you will need to change the privacy setting for records you do not wish to be viewed to "Private." If you make this choice, it means that other faculty members looking for collaborators across common research interests will not be able to find you, and it is expected that you will not search for others.

Note

Do not include personally sensitive data such as date of birth, SSN, credit card information in your Faculty Profile.

Elements Support

If you have any questions, please reach out to the email below.

[email protected]