Watermark notified Illinois State University of a new feature in the Faculty Accomplishments module of Faculty Success. The Publication Proactive Search aims to automate retrieval of scholarly outputs instead of relying on manual entry. The feature matches publications in the Crossref database to author name using fuzzy matching—ignoring spaces, hyphens, and other non-alphabetical characters. Publications are not automatically added to your record; instead, you will be prompted to reject or edit and add individual publications. From the Activities screen, you will see Notifications in a left-hand column; new publications are listed as To Do until you review them. Notifications can safely be ignored if you do not wish to make use of this feature.
You may wonder how Publication Proactive Search differs from the Import function within Intellectual Contributions/Publications. The former is intended to be a timely and partially automated process that works without your initiating an import. Existing Import functions will continue to be supported, and as with the CrossRef, PubMed, and Web of Science Import features, duplicate publications are detected based on matching digital object identifier (DOI). As with existing Import functions, you will be able to review duplicates side-by-side and add the duplicate result as a new record, merge the records, or reject the imported record.
The Knowledge and Training Team within the Office of Technology Solutions has created numerous tutorials for Faculty Success by Watermark and offers support via email, live chat, or  web form.
