SUNY Research Connect Help & FAQ

Any campuses that have researchers that we've identified based on our criteria. University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, and Upstate Medical University, all have their own portals which separately feed into the SUNY Research Connect community portal.

University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, and Upstate Medical University all get their information from campus resources for Organization, Profiles, and Users.

For multi-campus Organizations, Profiles, and Users we are sourcing the information from State HR Data and SUNY Research Foundation Data.

For all instances, Awards & Projects are loaded from SUNY Research Foundation supplied data as well as publicly available data sources.

Equipment is manually populated.

Research Outputs are populated from Elsevier's Scopus database.

The profiles included in SRC are not an exhaustive list of all the people and/or research that is happening at SUNY. There are different criteria for researchers to be included depending on what campus they are affiliated with and whether we have access to source data about them.

Content updates vary by data type:

• Awards & Projects: Monthly
• Profile Additions:
  
  • University at Buffalo:
  • Stony Brook University:
  • Upstate Medical University:
  • Multi-campus Instance: Monthly
• Equipment: Variable; Manually as things change
• Organizations/Research Units:
  • University at Buffalo:
  • Stony Brook University:
  • Upstate Medical University:
  • Multi-campus Instance: Monthly
• Publications (for Researchers with Scopus IDs in their profile): Weekly

In most cases, your SUNY Research Connect Campus Administrator can point you in the right direction:

• University at Buffalo: ResearchConnect@buffalo.edu
• Stony Brook University: Research_Connect@stonybrook.edu
• Upstate Medical University: ResearchConnect@upstate.edu
• Multi-campus: ResearchConnect@suny.edu

Each instance determines who gets included. There are four: University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, Upstate Medical University and Multi-campus.

The information in the Multi-campus instance is derived from multiple sources but they are not exhaustive. For University at Albany, Binghamton University, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, College of Optometry, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, we are using title from the State HR data to determine inclusion. For all state operated campuses, including doctorals, we are also including people who have served as Task PIs on recent Federal awards in the last few years from the Research Foundation.

Because of the limitations of our existing data sources, there are various institutions that are not yet able to be included in SRC such as Community Colleges or other non-SUNY institutions. Additional populations of users will be considered as the project progresses.

Researchers can optimize their profile by adding additional information about their experience. Here are some ways to make sure your profile gets noticed:

• Add Researcher Interests or a Biography to your profile directly
• Add missing research outputs or awards to your profile
• Update any awards that don’t have abstracts so the system can surface more concepts through fingerprinting

If you need help with any of these, please reach out to your SUNY Research Connect Campus Administrator.

SUNY's Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development has loaded all sponsored program awards and projects from SUNY Research Foundation's data. Everything is populated based on your SUNY Global ID. It is possible that some information may not contain your SUNY Global ID.

For awards that are not in the SUNY Research Foundation's data, a campus administrator can assist with adding them to SUNY Research Connect.

For either of these scenarios, please reach out to your SRC Administrator with the details.

If your profile contains a Scopus Author ID, Elsevier's Profile Refinement Services (PRS) should automatically surface new publications weekly.

If the publication is not in Scopus, it can be manually added to your profile. Please reach out to your campus administrator for assistance in getting started.

If your profile is new and we haven't run PRS yet, your profile will get picked up in the next run.

If you find that there are data corrections needed or content missing in publications that are imported from Scopus, you will want to submit a ticket directly with Scopus Support (bottom of page).

You can find more information here about the process on Scopus' website.

Please keep in mind that Scopus Support may direct you to the publisher should the issue be something that is incorrect at the source.

Profiles are updated using the administrative backend for their specific instance:

• University at Buffalo: https://researchconnect.buffalo.edu/admin
• Stony Brook University: https://stonybrook.elsevierpure.com/admin
• Upstate Medical University instance: https://researchconnect.upstate.edu/admin
• Multi-campus instance: https://suny.researchconnect.suny.edu/admin 

Log in to the administrative interface using your campus credentials through SUNY federated Single Sign On.

We also have short training videos available to guide you in making changes.

For the multi-campus and Upstate Medical University instance, emails are provided by State HR data or SUNY Research Foundation data. University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University get their information from campus resources.

If you find your email address is incorrect or is not the email you'd like correspondence sent to, you can change the email in your profile by editing your organizational affiliation. To change the email of your SRC communications from the platform, please contact a campus administrator so they can update that for you.

Using the 'Contact Expert' button at the top of a Researcher's profile will route your query to the appropriate place.