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myVITA features work best in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers. Internet Explorer is not recommended because of issues with functionality and display. Please set your browser to accept pop-ups from the myVITA site to ensure an optimal experience.

The Access Settings feature in myVITA allows you to set up a delegate. Refer to the quick reference guide for instructions.

• MyVITA contains all legacy records from the Faculty Accomplishment System (FAS).
• Many records from MU’s CAFNR reporting system were also transferred.
• Other information comes from the university’s official systems for Human Resources, Finance and Student information.
• A one-time bulk load from Web of Science fed to the Scholarly Contributions section.

• You can edit or delete FAS, CAFNR and Web of Science records as you choose. Once a record is deleted, it cannot be retrieved, and would need to be manually re-entered.
• Other information is fed from systems that are considered official sources of record. In those cases, changes must occur at the source. Administrative staff in your department are often in the best position to help start the process to update information. If you notice errors in the Personal Information, Contact Information, and Current University Position sections of the Profile Form, Human Resources can assist you in correcting it. Additional information on how to correct information will be provided in the help and instructions in myVITA. Examples might include:
  • Shared Credit in Grants – fed from PeopleSoft Finance
  • Instructor Role for Courses Taught – fed from the Student system

MyVITA accepts any file format; however, we recommend attaching commonly used formats like Microsoft Office or PDF files so that others can open them. At this time, the size limit for a single file is 750 MB. There is no limit to the number of files or the total storage size for your account. If you have a file that is larger than 750 MB, you can upload the file to the provided by your campus and then attach the URL of the file in myVITA.

No. Once you delete information in the system, there is no way to recover it. So please be cautious when using the delete function.

When first running a CV or when first viewing teaching in the Courses Taught section, myVITA defaults to displaying the last three semesters’ information. Near the top of the screen, look for the “Start Semester” and “End Semester” drop down options and enter your semester choices. Then refresh the page using the button on the page (not the browser refresh). The system will now display the records with the time frame you selected.

myVITA is available 24x7 for your convenience. Additionally, each semester, you can take advantage of time-saving features available only during an Open Activity Period. Open Activity Periods provide you with an easy-to-use form showing specific sections for a short and specified time period.  Entering your activities in myVITA helps provide a complete picture of your academic successes for your use on award and/or grant applications, as well as annual reviews and P&T. Updating your activities will also ensure that your accomplishments can be available for your department, librarian, or dean to showcase.

Each semester faculty can take advantage of a new, time-saving feature available only during an Open Activity Period, which are expected to occur twice a year. During this time, faculty will have the opportunity to employ a simplified tool, the Open Activity Form, to enter and update recent information in myVITA. This form will present specific sections and records for update and ask for information focused on a specific time period. When available, you will receive communication from your campus, and the Open Activity Form will appear as a link on your myVITA Dashboard. The Open Activity Form is designed to address entry of recent information, thus older activities will not appear and clutter data entry sections. However, all of your accomplishments still exist in myVITA and can be accessed anytime (24/7) by logging into myVITA and selecting one of the links on the left-hand navigation on the Dashboard (even during the Open Activity Period).

Please refer to the document for procedures on adjusting color, contrast, and zoom.

Faculty input is critical to the success of this system. Please email your suggestions to myVITA Support Team.

The course component describes the format of the class offered such as lab, lecture, discussion, etc.

For a list of component abbreviations and definitions, please click on the PDF below.

• Course Components

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Please refer to the document for information.

In order to be pre-loaded into your myVITA account, the WOS record needed to be between 2004 and October 2015, and it needed to have a University of Missouri affiliation attached to it. Articles published at a previous institution, for example, would not have been pre-loaded. You can use the Web of Science connection to import missing records.

In Scopus, choose your records and select RIS export. You can either save the file or open it with Notepad (or similar). In myVITA, use Generic (RIS / BibTeX) import feature to add the records. Known Issue: As of January 2016, the author names are not loading into myVITA properly. You’ll see that the last name gets put into the first-name field and vice versa). You will need to manually correct the author information. Depending on how many records you need to upload and how many co-authors are on your publications, this manual fix could be very tedious.

Export the Google Scholar citations as BibTeX and use myVITA’s Generic (RIS / BibTeX) import feature. If you are exporting from Google Scholar search results, look for the Cite link. If you have a Google Scholar Citation Profile, you can Export multiple records to BibTeX.

Yes. Export your EndNote records to a text file in RIS format. In myVITA, you can then use the Generic (RIS / BibTeX) option to import the text file. Known Issue: As of January 2016, the Journal Titles are not loading into myVITA properly if you export your EndNote record to the RIS format. You need to manually enter the journal titles.

In any database, look for a way to export your records to either RIS or BibTeX format. For example, in MathSciNet, you’ll see an option to Batch Download citations in the BibTeX form. With myVITA’s Generic (RIS / BibTeX) option, you can either copy and paste RIS / BibTeX text or import a RIS / BibTeX file. Be sure to check the accuracy of what’s been entered!

Yes. When you Show the Details on one of your Works in ORCiD, you’ll see the BibTeX citation. Copy and paste that information into myVITA’s Generic (RIS / BibTeX) option.