{"id":349107,"date":"2024-01-26T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/?p=349107"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:41:38","slug":"new-online-cv-tool-for-faculty-discover-york-academics-spotlights-scholarly-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2024\/01\/26\/new-online-cv-tool-for-faculty-discover-york-academics-spotlights-scholarly-work\/","title":{"rendered":"New online CV tool, Discover York Academics, spotlights faculty scholarly work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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York University has launched Discover York Academics, a new electronic curriculum vitae (CV) tool designed to showcase the University\u2019s outstanding faculty members.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Discover York Academics<\/strong><\/a> is a searchable database that enables faculty members to promote and store their research, publications, scholarly and creative works, and related teaching and professional activities in one centralized profile. In the process, their work and academic leadership will become more accessible and searchable for research collaborations and partnership opportunities, community engagements and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDiscover York Academics is an exciting, career-enhancing opportunity for York\u2019s researchers, scholars and creatives to more widely share their public expertise and their local and global efforts to drive positive change,\u201d said Amir Asif<\/strong>, vice-president research and innovation. \u201cBy using this tool, our faculty members gain a bigger platform to network, strengthen their visibility and grow their work\u2019s reach, influence and impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new tool offers a streamlined process for faculty to update and maintain one online profile, aggregating information from multiple <\/a>databases to create a single-source repository that fully encompasses and captures York\u2019s rising research and innovation enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to set up my profile and how comprehensive the automatic data collection feature was in finding my scholarly outputs,\u201d said Jennifer Steeves<\/strong>, associate vice-president research and professor in the Faculty of Health. \u201cAs my profile is publicly available, my research is now more visible to potential collaborators, partners and graduate students. Discover York Academics is an exciting opportunity to showcase the academic achievements of York\u2019s faculty, truly reflective of a leading research-intensive university.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover York Academics offers a more streamlined appearanc<\/a>e, user experience and functionality for faculty profiles across the institution, and acts as an enhanced resource for both internal and external audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff and students stand to benefit from the tool as well, by using it to seek out information on faculty availability for graduate supervision, insights into their academic or industry collaborations or to identify experts in a specific research or subject area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key features of the tool include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n