Faculty Guide to Editing Selected Works

works.bepress.com
Macalester College

“Selected Works is a web-based service that enables institutions to provide faculty with clean, elegantly designed scholarly publication pages. Sites are custom designed to match the look and feel of your institutional or departmental web pages and come fully supported.

With Selected Works, Authors can

• Present research in an engaging manner
• Post and share articles, working papers, presentations and more
• Take control of ownership and dissemination
• Organize work according to personal criteria
• Preserve work in a viewable, usable manner”  
                             
                                    [From the Selected Works main page]

PLEASE NOTE:  Macalester faculty pages in Selected Works are still in the process of being updated, and many pages are not complete.  However, if you want to update your own pages right away, please read the instructions below.

• Faculty wishing assistance with their pages should contact  your department Liaison Librarian
  

• For those who wish to edit their own pages please see the instructions below.

• You can navigate to your Selected Works page from the author gallery in DigitalCommons.  Your URL for  your Selected Works page is: works.bepress.com/firstname_lastname (all lower case with an _ between your first and lastname) Content for your Selected Works page has been taken from your Faculty Publications, Scholarship, & Research page

GETTING STARTED

Before you can edit your page, you will need to set up an account using the DigitalCommons.   

If you already have an account, please proceed to Step Two.  

Step One – Log into Digital Commons. 

URL: Digitalcommons.macalester.edu

Select “My Account”.  Select “Create New Account” and enter information including a password.

Step Two is to login to SelectedWorks.

URL: works.bepress.com

Select “My Account” and login using same password as you set up for DigitalCommons.

Step Three:  Edit My Site

When you are in your account, you will have two options:

View My Site

Edit My Site – select Edit My Site

Step Four:  Changing Content

You will have a variety of options including uploading content. Here is where you enter citations to your work.  We have tried to maintain consistency in headings for articles, sections in books, books, etc.  For faculty in the performaning or fine arts, there are variations for entering exhibits or performances.  We will be providing detailed instructions in order to maintain some consistency with these pages after our April 30th unveiling.

Subjects and Abstracts

For the initial loading, we have not added any subject terms, nor abstracts.  If you would like to update your pages with that content, you can add as much detail as you would like.

After editing a page, you will need to select the "Update Site" option. 

For further questions, please feel free to contact:

1. Your Liaison Librarian
   
2. Ron Joslin (x6522, joslin@macalester.edu)
   
3. Terri Fishel (x6343), fishel@macalester.edu
   
4. Or use one of our ASK US options

Selected Works is a product of bepress

Ron Joslin is the project manager for Selected Works

4/29/2008