Use of the term “faculty profile” can be confusing because there have been multiple solutions to hosting faculty profiles over the years. Right now at S&T, referring to someone’s “faculty profile” could mean one of three things.
Your SelectedWorks profile
Your primary “faculty profile,” and what most people mean when they say “faculty profile,” is housed in a system called SelectedWorks. You can find these profiles by going to people.mst.edu and clicking “Faculty Profiles.”
SelectedWorks is an add-on service to Digital Commons, a library software by Elsevier’s subsidiary bepress for publishing, managing, and showcasing the full range of an institution’s research and scholarship. You may be familiar with S&T’s instance of Digital Commons, Scholars’ Mine.
A SelectedWorks profile is owned by you and can follow you throughout your career. If you move to another university with a library using Digital Commons, your profile can be moved to that university. When a profile is associated with a university, it takes on that university’s branding and can be edited by both you and that university’s library.
Your SelectedWorks profile is made up of one page with two tabs: About and Works. You fill out the About tab much like you’d fill out any profile on LinkedIn or another professional site–it has sections for your experience, research activities, accomplishments, CV, etc. The Works tab is automatically filled in by pulling the latest works associated with you from the Digital Commons instance as those works become available.
Since you already have a SelectedWorks profile and thus account, editing it will either require you to already know the password or to reset the password if it’s your first time editing. Your account should be under your @mst.edu email unless you’ve previously edited your profile at another university. You can log into SelectedWorks at https://works.bepress.com/login. Note that this is hosted externally to the university, so it does not use your normal SSO and email password.
You can find more information about editing your SelectedWorks faculty profile at myprofile.mst.edu.
Your S&T Sites website
Your website here at S&T Sites can also act as a faculty profile of sorts. S&T Sites offers a faculty template to help you showcase your research, teaching, and other scholarly activity. Creating a site on S&T Sites is useful if you have more information to share than would comfortably fit inside the more formulaic one-pager style of your SelectedWorks profile. You can also link to your S&T Sites website from your SelectedWorks profile to help visitors find your full website.
S&T Sites is a self-service site creator, so you can create a new faculty profile site by clicking “Create a site” at sites.mst.edu. To edit it you can either return to sites.mst.edu and click “Sign in,” or you can type your site’s address followed by /wp-admin, like https://sites.mst.edu/example/wp-admin. S&T Sites runs on WordPress, which powers around half of all websites on the internet. Training material is abundant, but we recommend starting with BlueHost’s series of videos. For a quick introduction, also see our post on Moving to S&T Sites.
If you’d like someone else to assist in creating your site, you can also assign other users editing rights.
Your department’s faculty listing
The last place you may have a profile is on your department’s faculty page. This is usually a short photo and contact info section that may have a bio included. These profiles are hosted in a content management system called TerminalFour, and are edited by your department’s TerminalFour content author. If you’re not familiar with who edits TerminalFour pages for your department, reach out to websupport@mst.edu and they can get you in contact with the right person.