At the Medical Library & Archives, we regularly use Elements to provide research impact reports for departments; however, Elements data is only as complete as authors are consistent in reporting. The good news is the Elements system will automatically accept publications and add them to your profile with a minimal amount of effort from you (called Automatic Claiming). You can watch a video of the process below or scroll down for step-by-step directions to set up Automatic Claiming in Elements.
1. Click the link below to login into your Elements account
2. Click on the menu button in the top left corner of your profile (see the red arrow below).
3. From the menu, select "Automatic Claiming" under the "Settings" tab (highlighted in the red box).
5. Once you click a prompted ID or add a new one, the box below will appear. Be sure to select the radio dial that reads "Auto claim associated items" and then click "Confirm." This will allow Elements to add any publications connected to the IDs provided automatically to your profile—no logins or additional work from you!
6. A complete profile in Elements should have a configured ORCID (see instructions below). We also recommend creating a Scopus ID and a Research ID (via Web of Science) and adding them to your profile. Once you've done this, Elements will automatically add publications linked to your identifiers to your scholarly profile.
ORCIDs are unique numbers designed to identify authors across the publishing landscape. Adding and configuring your ORCID to your scholarly profiles will make your life easier by automatically pushing updates to and from your various data sources.
Once your ORCID account is connected to your Elements accounts, they will sync automatically without any action required from you.
3. On the next page, navigate to the center of the page to the "Linked Accounts" section. Hit the "Add Account" button shown in the red box.
4. On the next page, navigate to the "All Available Partner Accounts" and use the search box to locate "Orcid." When you click on OrcID, you'll be directed to your OcrID login page and asked to grant NCBI access.
5. Once you have connected your accounts, NCBI/My Bibliography will send your publications from PubMed to OrcID and OrcID will send those Publications to Elements-- all automatically! No need to update multiple profiles.