Scholars @ LMU

Publication information is automatically imported every week from  

• ArXiv.org 
• Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School 
• EBSCOhost 
• IEEE Explore 
• Mendeley 
• ORCID 
• PubMed 
• Scopus 
• SSRN 
• Web of Science 
• WorldCat 

New works may take 4 to 6 weeks from date of publication to be indexed by Scopus and then displayed on a profile. 

If the work in question has been published recently, it may be added to your profile automatically. It is recommended to wait 4 to 8 weeks for the automated update to avoid duplicate records being created in the profile.  

1. From the Personal screen, click on the green + Add Content button on the right. 
2. The Choose submission window will open. 
3. Select on the type of submission you would like to add to your profile and fill out the required fields. 

Examples of information you can add to your profile: 

• Activity: committee service, editorial work, consultancy, invited talk  
• Courses  
• Datasets   
• Grants  
• Prize: honorary degrees, medals and awards, national or international honors  
• Project: Research or consultancy projects  
• Research Output: publications and contributions to conferences  
• Student Thesis: for Master’s or Doctoral Thesis that you supervised 

Always click the blue Save button at the bottom of the window to add the new record.  

If you have many publications, activities, grants, or projects that are not automatically harvested that you would like added to your profile, email an updated CV to digitalcommons@lmu.edu.  

1. Click Personal on the top left and select “My research output.” 
2. When you hover over the publication, click the cog-wheel on the right-hand side and choose “Not mine – disclaim content”. 
3. Leave a message for the library explaining it is a duplicate entry 

You can also click on the title of the publication to open the record, click blue “Disclaim this Content” button on the bottom right. Leave a message for the library explaining it is a duplicate entry. 

1. Click Personal on the top left and select “My research output.” 
2. When you hover over the publication, click the cog-wheel on the right-hand side and choose “Not mine – disclaim content”. 
3. Leave a message for the library explaining it is not your work.

You can also click on the title of the publication to open the record, click blue “Disclaim this Content” button on the bottom right. Leave a message for the library.

You may want to save your content in your profile, but control who accesses your work.  

You may select the following levels of visibility for each of your research output, activities, applications, awards, projects, datasets, and student theses by selecting the record and scrolling down to “Visibility” to edit. Click the blue Save button at the bottom of the window to update the record. 

• Public: No restriction on visibility.  
• Campus: Content is restricted to LMU’s IP range. Content is only exposed to persons viewing your profile from within LMU’s IP range. 
• Restricted to Pure-Users: Content only available inside Scholars @ LMU’s backend and not available online.  
• Confidential: Content only visible when logged into Pure and only for contributors and users with editorial rights to the content 

Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS serves as our institutional platform for collecting, organizing, preserving, and disseminating faculty and student scholarship and creative works in a digital open-access environment. This means that the content is freely accessible online without any barriers. Digital Commons acts as a permanent archive for scholarly output, and once submitted, work cannot be withdrawn. 

Scholars @ LMU allows individual users to provide a comprehensive overview of their scholarship and research, facilitating collaboration both on campus and beyond. In addition to publications, user profiles can highlight activities, courses, datasets, grants, prizes, projects, and supervised student theses. Users have the flexibility to curate their profiles—whether they want to include a presentation or control access to their work.