Research Portal

The public portal shows:

• your known as name
• your photo if you add one
• your job title and your organizational unit, where you are working
• if you are a doctoral researcher, you are affiliated to the faculty where you are studying and to your doctoral programme
• the research groups, communities and networks to which your affiliation is marked
• the titles you have added to the profile
• your address if you input it
• your phone number if you input it
• the links you have added to your profile
• research interests and teaching interests written by yourself
• your field(s) of science (based on the fields of science classification by Ministry of Education and Culture)
• keywords input by yourself
• information about your education if you have added it to your profile
• information about your positions outside the University of Lapland if you have added it to your profile

Your public home page will also show the amount of your research outputs and all your research outputs, activities, prizes, media contents and the projects, in which you are working.

Your profile can also contain so called fingerprints and a map of networks. You may also add your public CV to your public home page.

Your profile page will be shown in the public research portal if the visibility is set as "Public - No restriction". Only you, the main users and the specified users who have the right to access the information will see your profile if the visibility is set as "Backend - restricted to Pure users". The visibility setting "Campus" is not used.

• Researchers and teachers in the faculties, in the Arctic Centre and in the Language Centre and the staff of the Education and Development Services: your profile is set public by default. You can temporarily change the visibility to "Backend - restricted to Pure users" if there is a special need for that.
• Doctoral researchers: If you have begun your doctoral studies in 2023, your profile is set public by default. If you have begun your doctoral studies before this, your profile page is non-public by default. You are able to change the visibility setting by yourself.
• Other staff: your profile page is set non-public by default, but you can change the visibility if you want to.

Your research outputs will be shown in the public portal and be part of the national collection of publication information even if your profile is not public.

The visibility is set at the bottom of the profile page in the backend system:

You can edit settings in your user interface by clicking the small arrow next to your userID in the black bar on top of the window:

By clicking the arrow you will be able to change the settings

It's easiest to set English as the default submission language if most of your publications and activities are in English. Then the system sets it as the default language for your publications and activities but you can change the language of any publication or activity without changing the default setting whenever needed.

You can choose, when and how often the system creates messages for you.

If you want to give someone the right to update your profile and input and edit your output, activities, press and media activities and prizes, you can set them as your trusted user. The person has to belong to the staff of our university or to be registered as an attending doctoral researcher but doesn't need to have their own personal profile in LaCRIS. By clicking "History and comments" in the left panel of your profile or your output and activities you can always see, who has input or edited your data.

You can see and edit your profile data by signing in to the backend system and clicking "Edit profile". Please notice that part of your personal data is automatically transferred from HR and study systems. You cannot modify or update all of the transferred data in LaCRIS yourself.

You can find the editing options from the panel on the left.

NOTE! Please, remember always to save the information that you have input or updated before leaving your profile page - there is a blue Save button in the grey bar on the bottom of the window. Saving the whole profile is needed even if you have clicked "Create" or "Update" for a piece of information that you have added or updated to the profile.

Portal profile

In portal profile you can edit the collaboration map, affiliations and metrics information.

Collaboration map

If you have during the last five years written publications or conducted research in projects in cooperation with researchers working in other countries, you will have the world map with blue dots on your home page. Clicking the blue dots in your network you will see links to those publications and projects. You can also remove the map if you want to.

Show affiliations

You can remove some of the organization affiliations from your home page if you want to. However, your name will stay on the page of the research group, community or network. If you want to remove yourself from the whole group, community or network, please, contact lacris@ulapland.fi.

Highlighted contents

If you want to show some of your publications, projects, activities, prizes or media contents on top of the lists, you can choose those in "Highlighted contents".

Fingerprints

The fingerprints are central concepts picked up from the abstracts of your publications. The system is using several thesauri of different disciplines for picking those fingerprints. If you publish mainly in other languages than English, the fingerprints may be misleading.

• You can remove misleading words by moving the mouse to the word and clicking the appearing red mark
• You can also remove all words of a thesaurus by turning the blue On-button to Off 
• By turning all thesauri off, you can remove all fingerprints from your home page
• You cannot add or change words in the fingerprints, they are automatically processed

Some information is transferred to LaCRIS automatically from the HR and study systems. You can not edit this information yourself. All this information is not shown in the public portal of LaCRIS. The data is transferred in order to provide sufficient data for creating CV by using LaCRIS.

Staff and visiting researchers

Some information is transferred automatically from the HR system for the staff and visiting researchers of the faculties, the Arctic Centre, the Language Centre and the Education and Development Services:

• full name and known as name
• gender
• research career stage
• the main field of science
• job contracts at the University of Lapland and the job titles
• the group used in the Kompassi system (for researchers and teachers, only)

The above information in the HR system is also used for the annual staff report to the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Personal information about other staff is not transferred automatically to LaCRIS. The personal profiles for other staff are created manually for those who are taking part in the subject work of some research, art, education or development project or who are writing publications. The LaCRIS administrators create the profiles for the staff of other organizations when needed (contact lacris@ulapland.fi).

Doctoral Researchers

The information transferred automatically from the study system

• full name and known as name
• gender
• faculty that has granted the right to study
• date of granting the right to study
• aimed degree
• doctoral programme
• supervisors
• the situation of studies: active, passive, completed
• date of receiving the degree or other date of ending studies
• field of science (deduced from the field of study)

Errors

If there are errors or something is missing, please, contact the administrative secretary of your organizational unit. The errors and missing data will be corrected and updated in the HR system, which will transfer them into LaCRIS.

The library adds and removes the research group, community and network affiliations of the researchers and PhD Candidates. Please, contact lacris@ulapland.fi if you want to be affiliated to some of these groups.

The affiliation to a research group, community or network is created for the same period as in the job or visiting researcher's contract. When you get a new contract, you have to change the ending date of the research group, community or network affiliation by yourself. Otherwise, you won't be shown on the home page of the group, community or network anymore.

The path for making changes is: "Edit profile", "Metadata",  "Organisational affiliations".

If you want to show your CV on your home page, the information needed for the CV has to be input in LaCRIS. Create the CV by clicking "Add  Curriculum vitae" button next to your photo:

Then choose Public CV and then choose what you want to include in your public CV. When you have made your choices, click "Create". You can then edit and filter the information by clicking the "Edit" button, that appears by moving the mouse on the left side of each title. You can also reorder the parts by the small arrows. When you have finished, tick "Publish", give the proper name for your CV and click Save.

If you have had a job contract in other units and become a researcher or teacher or a doctoral reseacher, you will have duplicate profile and the new job contract data is not automatically merged into the old profile. Please, contact the LaCRIS administrators (lacris@ulapland.fi) to get the profiles merged.