Faculty Collaboration Database for Faculty Activity Tracking

Adding activities to your FCD CV

1. Log into the FCD at fcd.mcw.edu with your MCW email address and MCW password
2. Click Curriculum Vitae in the left navigation menu
3. If you have an existing CV formatted according to official MCW standards, click Upload CV and follow the instructions on the page
4. Navigate to Edit / Maintain to add items to your CV
5. Press the Add button to add an item to a section, or the Edit button to edit an existing item
6. Fill in the activity's information with as much detail as possible and press Submit

Adding publications

Copying Publications to your CV Bibliography is a process involving a few simple steps.

1. Click Publications in the left navigation menu.
2. If desired, click and complete Modify Pubmed Search and/or Modify Scopus Author ID, following the instructions on each page.
3. Set Default Bibliography Subcategory. This is the category that will be assigned to imported publications by default. Choose the category of publication that you complete most often.
4. Add publications, selecting Copy to CV if category set option when submitting:
   • Automatically found publications using the Confirm/Reject tool
   • Publications from PubMed with Add Publication by PMID
   • Other publications via Add Publication
5. Ensure all publications have been successfully copied to your CV at any time using the Copy Pubs to CV tool.
6. Visit your CV Bibliography and ensure the Reference Type is correct for each item. Use the Edit button in the far-right column to edit a reference’s type.

Please see the Managing your Publications tutorial video for a demonstration of the steps required.

Please see the Publications section below for more information.

Faculty scholarly activity reporting

Beginning with the 2019–2020 academic year, we will utilize the MCW Faculty Collaboration Database to maintain all of our faculty’s various scholarly, professional, and research activities performed throughout the year instead of the Faculty Activity Checklist that you have been completing for the past few years. This will reduce duplication of efforts, align departmental goals and measurements with those of the institution, and make it easier for faculty to maintain their CVs and ensuring their activities, contributions, and accomplishments are not unnoticed.

MCW Faculty Collaboration Database (FCD)

The FCD is the primary source of truth for a faculty member’s activities throughout the institution. It powers many official MCW platforms, including our public departmental website, and is the official way to maintain faculty members’ official MCW CVs. CVs can be maintained using the FCD interface, or by uploading one’s CV to the FCD.

The FCD can be accessed at fcd.mcw.edu, and you can log in using your MCW email address and MCW email password (not your departmental A*Net password).

Help and Tutorials can be accessed using the link at header of every page.

For questions or issues with the FCD itself, please use the Contact form accessible from the link in the header. For other questions, like about how items should be entered or how they will be aggregated or viewed for your end-of-year summary, please contact Jacob Mischka at jmischka@mcw.edu.

Visibility

For every entry a Visibility can be specified (Public, Protected, Private). The levels are described on each page below the entry form. Private entries will not count toward your end-of-year summary.

Dates

Be as specific with dates as possible. For individual events (lectures, etc), specify both the start and end dates with the date of the event. For long term events, omit the end date to indicate that they are presently active.

Publications

There are two types of publications in the FCD: CV Bibliography and Publications. Publications are used throughout a variety of MCW platforms, including the publication feed your FCD profile itself and the publications feed on the MCW website. Additionally, Publications can be tied to a PubMed or Scopus entry, enabling automatic updates and cross-linking. The CV Bibliography contains the publications present on your official MCW CV, grouped into several categories. Both are important, as they are used for different purposes. Ideally, Publications should be imported from PubMed or Scopus and copied to your CV Bibliography using the Copy to CV feature.

Publications can be imported from PubMed or Scopus using the Publications section in the sidebar. However, only publications present in Bibliography section of your CV will be counted toward your end-of-year summary. Imported publications must be copied to CV using Copy to CV feature to be counted in your summary.

If a publication is not present in PubMed or Scopus, it may be entered manually in the Bibliography section of your CV, or manually in the Publications section and copied to your CV. Creating a Publication and copying it to your CV Bibliography is preferred, as it will allow your work to receive maximum visibility. However, the choice is ultimately up to you.

The Bibliography section of your CV is the ultimate source of truth for your end-of-year summary publications. Any items present only in the Publications section will not be considered.

Departmental education activities

We will automatically consider your departmental education lectures (those scheduled in New Innovations and visible on the A*Net Calendar) and your resident mentorships. You do not need to enter these activities into your FCD CV.

Any other activities, such as lectures to other departments or institutions, should be included in your FCD CV in order to be considered.