Click the Menu and ‘Search Settings’ box on the home page:
Name variants:
The default name given will be that which is held on iTrent, the university’s HR system. The need to use any of the subsequent search terms below will depend on how common the surname is.
Address:
This has to match any terminology used by databases e.g. as PU could be described as “Univ. of Plymouth”; “University of Plymouth”; “Plymouth University”; "Plymouth Business School" etc., it is safest to simply use the lowest common denominator of “Plymouth”. Likewise, add a short place name for each previous institution e.g. “London”.
Keywords and Journals:
Use with care – these fields are only recommended only for very common names where name/place does not bring back specific enough hits.
Database search settings: Scroll further down the page to adjust the harvesting settings of databases configured work with Elements: PubMed, PubMed Central, Web of Science, arXiv (physics/computer science/maths), DBLP(computer science), RePEc(economics) and CiNii(Japan) are currently configured for harvesting by Elements. Tick only the databases relevant to your area.
CrossRef database of DOIs (multidisciplinary) will also be searched.
Add in specifc profiles e.g. a ResearchID from Web of Science to personalise even further:
Manage your Pending Publications harvested by the databases:
Elements has harvested hits from different databases. You now need to ‘claim’ them as your publications or ‘reject’ them if incorrectly harvested.
Mine = publications accepted as being written by the user
Pending = results retrieved by the automated harvesting, awaiting Claim or Reject
Not Mine = these will not be retrieved by the automated harvesting again so a decision is only required once on each output.
Mistakes in the data?
To view full details of the publication, click on the publication title link. This will also display the database source name. Click this to display the full record from the database. If any of the details are wrong, then the database, e.g. Web of Science, should be contacted to request a data correction. Contact ITselfservice.plymouth.ac.uk if this is required. A temporary fix is to create a manual record with the correct information and then to click the star 
to denote it as the ‘favourite record’.
Outputs which are not indexed in the data sources or imported via EndNote will need to be manually added via pre-set forms. (NB: use of ORCiD to manage a publication profile is recommended. ORCiD is interoperable with most systems including Elements and reduces the manual burden e.g populating profiles for grant submission etc.)
DOI look up:
For articles there is a DOI look up and for books an ISBN ‘Google Books’ look up – Elements will look externally to bring in a record and prepopulate the necessary fields.
If it cannot find a pre-existing record, you will be prompted to fill in a record manually. 
Records can be imported into Elements from EndNote:
In EndNote:
Return to Elements:
For queries on these systems please contact: openresearch@plymouth.ac.uk or log a problem with the Service Desk: itselfservice.plymouth.ac.uk or 01758 (5)88588
New: Ask the library about how to populate your school or faculty extranet pages with a dynamic feed of publications which includes the DOI and Open Access PEARL links:
See the most downloaded thesis or research paper from PEARL. The statistics may surprise you. Did you know that between approximately 15,000 to 20,000 items are downloaded from PEARL each month? Work deposited into PEARL can be found by anybody, anywhere in the world.
