FIU Discovery Support Site

FIU Discovery Support Site

The FIU Discovery support site has the latest information and related support resources for the Universities’ collaboration platform.

Use the site to do the following:

About FIU Discovery

About FIU Discovery

FIU Discovery is a search portal that fosters collaboration and connection with Florida International Universities’ expertise and impact.

Powered by an integrated stack of innovative technologies, FIU Discovery automates the aggregation, linking and dissemination of high-quality data about the University’s people, organizations, and related scholarly and creative works.

The platform is the next phase of Scholars@FIU and is a strategic component of the Universities’ research technology infrastructure for:

Currently profiles are created in FIU Discovery for active faculty with 9 and 12 month contracts.   It is anticipated that profiles will be created in the future for other populations at FIU.

FIU Discovery is a search portal that fosters collaboration and connection with Florida International Universities’ expertise and impact.

Powered by an integrated stack of innovative technologies, FIU Discovery automates the aggregation, linking and dissemination of high-quality data about the University’s people, organizations, and related scholarly and creative works.

The platform is the next phase of Scholars@FIU and is a strategic component of the Universities’ research technology infrastructure for:

Currently profiles are created in FIU Discovery for active faculty with 9 and 12 month contracts.   It is anticipated that profiles will be created in the future for other populations at FIU.

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FIU Discovery Resources

For All Users

This guide illustrates how to use FIU Discovery to explore the vast impact of FIU’s R1 scholarly community and to find your next collaborator.

For more information and resources about finding a research collaborator at FIU, please visit the Find a Collaborator section of the FIU Research website.

Learn how to use the FIU Discovery portal to find your next collaborator.

For FIU Faculty and Related Support

The guides below are intended to help faculty and their support to edit their FIU Discovery profile.

Please refer first to the Optimize Your Digital Presence section of the FIU research website to best understand how the guides below can be used.

Review Your Public
Profile Overview Information
in FIU Discovery

Edit the high level profile information (photo, overview, interests, preferred name, related urls, etc.) on your FIU Discovery Profile.

Review the Scholarly Works Automated into FIU Discovery

Review the scholarly works that have been automated into your FIU Discovery profile.

Adjust Your
Search Settings in FIU Discovery

Adjust the search settings used for automating your scholarly works and creative activities in FIU Discovery.

Claim and track the researcher identifiers used to automate your scholarly works and creative activities.

Auto-populate Your ORCID Profile from FIU Discovery

Seamlessly connect to and populate  your scholarly works and creative activities from FIU Discovery to ORCID.

Frequently Asked Questions

Below is a list of frequently asked questions about FIU Discovery.

FIU Discovery is a search portal that fosters connection and collaboration with Florida International Universities’ expertise and impact.

The platform is the next phase of Scholars@FIU and is a strategic component of the Universities’ research technology infrastructure for fostering team science and research collaboration.

Powered by an integrated stack of technologies, FIU Discovery helps faculty optimize their digital presence by automating the aggregation, linking and dissemination of high-quality data about the University’s people, organizations, and related scholarly and creative works.

There are a number of reasons why it is beneficial to maintain information in FIU Discovery.

  • FIU Discovery can help you reduce the amount of effort it takes to manage and automate high quality Scholarly & Creative works data associated with you within FIU (i.e. Panther180 via ORCID) and outside of FIU (i.e. ORCIDScopusWeb of Science, Crossref, Publons, SciENcv).
  • FIU Discovery is a central place to link to the various digital presences you may already maintain. (i.e. Website,  Google ScholarResearchGate, LinkedIn, Twitter)
  • FIU Discovery is a strategic component of FIU’s university wide integrated infrastructure for enabling research collaboration and discovery.   By maintaining at least some basic profile information, you will enhance your ability to leverage the related support resources across campus which are focused on facilitating your success.

Currently profiles are created for active faculty with 9 and 12 month contracts.   It is anticipated that profiles will be created in the future for other populations of people.

At this time, FIU Discovery is not integrating data from Panther180 into FIU Discovery.   However, the data entered into Panther180 is being assessed for future integration possibilities.

We are currently developing mechanisms that will allow you to automate information from FIU Discovery to your website.   We are also working with related resources on campus to populate other university websites/faculty directories.

Yes, you can change your name by editing your profile.   See the ‘Set Preferred Name’ in the  ‘Edit Your Discovery Profile’ guide in user resources for more information.

See the ‘Use FIU Discovery to Find Your Next Collaborator’  guide in the user resources for more information.

Yes, you can submit a request for assistance with your profile.

If you have a profile in FIU Discovery and are receiving a permission denied error message when attempting to log in, please try the following steps.

If you are still having issues,  submit a request for assistance and someone from the Research Information Systems team will be in contact with you.