{"id":10696,"date":"2026-08-25T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/?page_id=10696"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:22:50","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/interfolio-umaines-faculty-information-system\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you get into the tool, there are a few initial tasks you will want to do first:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Watch the <strong>Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting for Faculty Members<\/strong> video. This can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/product-help.interfolio.com\/en_US\/product-training#accordion307350\">Interfolio product help site<\/a>.&nbsp; To access, first click on the Faculty Activity Reporting tab. The Faculty Activity Reporting for Faculty Members is the second training video on the page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1612\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"The Faculty Activity Reporting Tab. The image shows two training options, one for Unit Administrators and one for Faculty Members.\" class=\"wp-image-10650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image.png 1612w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-768x342.png 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-1536x683.png 1536w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-105x47.png 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-317x141.png 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-423x188.png 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-634x282.png 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-846x376.png 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-951x423.png 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2026\/08\/image-1268x564.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,1612px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span style=\"color: #000000\" class=\"stk-highlight\">This graphic depicts the Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) tab on the Interfolio Website. There are two training options on this page, one for unit administrators and one for faculty members.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Review Pre-Populated Profile Info:<\/strong> Verifying basic administrative data (e.g., current rank, department, contact info, academic appointments) pulled automatically from MaineStreet.\u00a0 Please contact <a href=\"mailto:debra.allen@maine.edu\">debra.allen@maine.edu<\/a> with any questions about your HR data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Review and Correct Promotion and Tenure Info:<\/strong> We were not able to pull data before 2008, and there may be some inaccuracies with respect to the promotion and tenure data. Please correct anything that does not look correct.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Review and Correct Migrated Records from the Faculty\/Staff Profile Database:<\/strong> Please review the service, honors and awards, and scholarship data migrated into FAR from the Faculty Staff Profile Database and correct as needed.\u00a0 More information on the data that was migrated can be found at this link.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Review Grants Information:<\/strong> Grants data was imported from the Office of Research Administration (ORA). Please email <a href=\"mailto:ora@maine.edu\">ora@maine.edu<\/a> with any questions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Using the Interfolio Data Service (IDS), <\/strong>review and approve publication records automatically fetched by Interfolio\u2019s centralized database. (<span style=\"color: #aa0000\" class=\"stk-highlight\">Link to training video<\/span>.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Linking External Profiles:<\/strong> Connecting accounts like <strong>ORCID<\/strong>, or importing publication files directly via <strong>BibTeX<\/strong>, <strong>Google Scholar<\/strong>, <strong>PubMed<\/strong>, or <strong>Crossref<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you get into the tool, there are a few initial tasks you will want to do first:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2551,"featured_media":0,"parent":10649,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10696","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","archive_9_5":"","portrait_3x4":"","image_16_9":"","image_15_7":"","image_25_7":"","3col-image_16_9":"","3col-image_15_7":"","3col-image_full":"","4col-image_16_9":"","4col-image_15_7":"","4col-image_full":"","6col-image_16_9":"","6col-image_15_7":"","6col-image_full":"","8col-image_16_9":"","8col-image_15_7":"","8col-image_full":"","9col-image_16_9":"","9col-image_15_7":"","9col-image_full":"","12col-image_16_9":"","12col-image_15_7":"","12col-image_full":"","post-thumbnail":"","gform-image-choice-sm":"","gform-image-choice-md":"","gform-image-choice-lg":"","umaps-featured-image":"","umaps-icon-size":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>When you get into the tool, there are a few initial tasks you will want to do first: Watch the Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting for Faculty Members video. 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