Aurora and Researcher Profiles Support

Guidance on managing and promoting your research activities using Aurora and Researcher Profiles

The following guides provide instructions for managing your research activities in Aurora.

Getting started

The Aurora Quick-Start Guide covers the following topics:                    

  • getting to know the Aurora homepage and menus
  • viewing, claiming, or rejecting publications
  • configuring automatic search settings
  • entering publications manually
  • depositing publications to Adelaide Research and Scholarship
  • managing privacy settings

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Quick-guides at a glance

Itemised sections of the Quick-Start Guide are listed individually below.

Need Help?

Your externally facing Researcher Profile is created by combining elements from your Aurora account with information added to your web-based Researcher Profile and the Staff Directory.

    Set up your Researcher Profile

    Your externally facing Researcher Profile is created by combining elements from your Aurora account with information added to your web-based Researcher Profile and the Staff Directory.

    The Manage My Profile guide covers the steps required to ensure your Profile is an accurate, discoverable, and well-presented account of your research. 

    Please refer to the following companion guides for instructions on how to use the text-editor function in the Researcher Profiles site: 

    Visit Researcher Profiles

    Additional resources

    Further tips and answers to frequently asked questions can be found below.

    • Improving the discoverability of your Researcher Profile

      To enhance discoverability of your profile through Google search and via the Researcher Profiles website, it is strongly encouraged to add relevant research interests to your profile in Aurora. This will allow potential HDR students, collaborators, and media to find you more easily.

      To add your Research Interests to your profile, login to Aurora and click 'Go to your profile'. Scroll down and edit your Research Interests. Enter a search term to locate appropriate Research Interests. Fields of Research & Socio-Economic Objectives are included to cover a wide range of areas. Click each relevant interest to add to your profile and then save when done.

      Once your Researcher Profile has been refreshed, your Research Interests will appear under the Career tab and will support discoverability of your profile through Google search.

    • Google ranking and Researcher Profiles

      Google ranks search results in a number of ways including the age of the website, views/visits and links from other websites. The more established the page, the higher it will be on the google rankings. Therefore if your Researcher Profile is new, it won’t have yet have the ‘traffic’ to raise it up the rankings. Don’t worry this will occur over time.

      If you would like to improve your Google ranking of your Researcher Profile, we recommend the following by Researchers:

      1. Request your local/community website content administrator to update Faculty, School, Institute, Research Group site to direct link to your Researcher Profile URL (researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/firstname.lastname).
      2. Update your link on external websites such as Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Scopus, Web of Science, ORCiD, Academia, Mendeley, Arxiv, figshare, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc to make reference to your new Researcher Profile.

      Over time your Researcher Profile page will be re-indexed by Google and therefore will improve your Researcher Profile Google ranking.

    Need Help?

    For support creating and managing your Researcher Profile, please email your Liaison Librarian