When interface changes are approved, they will be listed here with an approximate date of availability. Once these changes are live, they will have a Release date.

Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
03/05/20	EAS	Workload	Removed	The Workload section of the EAS has been removed for now. Without a method to identify unit- and function-specific EFT components, these data proved more confusing than useful. We will continue to explore how to provide these data in the future.	EAS 1.7.3
02/25/20	Professional activities	Graduate/Professional student advising	Replaced activity type	This new activity type has replaced Graduate/Professional student advisory committee. We have also expanded the coverage so that both current and past advisory committee relationships are displayed. These data are fed from an authoritative source (Banner). This replacement also applies to the EAS.	EAS 1.7.2
01/24/19	EAS	Graduate/professional student advisory committees	New activity type	The new activity type, Graduate/professional student advisory committees, now appears on the EAS.	EAS 1.6.1
12/21/18	Professional activities	Graduate/professional student advisory committees	New activity type	New activity type for graduate/professional student advisory committee; pre-populated with advisee name, degree level, major/co-major professor(s), committee relationships, and matriculation/graduation date(s); linked users may enter Project title, Project description, and/or External advisory committee member(s) information.	N/A
11/21/18	Publications	Report	New choice value	Added "Budget" and "Fact Sheet" as new selections for Report type	N/A
11/8/18	Publications		Module Access	Added Staff Access to the Publication Module Note, UGA Elements notifies users via email about pending publications. For information about claiming publications, please see the support site here: Populate Elements with Publications (step 1 and 2 apply for staff users).	N/A
8/18/18	User Profile		New Profile Fields	In Elements v5.11, the Overview narrative field has now been separated into three distinct narratives: Overview (meant to be biographical), Research interests, and Teaching summary	v5.11
7/25/18	Professional activities	Graduate Assistantship	New activity type	New activity for graduate/professional students; pre-populated with HR-based assistantships; students enter Course, Instructor, Description of duties (for TA) or Project, PI/Co-I (for RA)	N/A
5/30/18	Professional activities	Distinctions/Awards	New choice value	Added "Fellowship" as a new selection for Distinction type	N/A
5/30/18	Professional activities	Event judging	New choice value	Added "Science fair" as a new selection for Event type	N/A
5/30/18	Professional activities	Membership: Committee	New choice value and field	Added "Other" as a new selection for Role; added new text field 'Description of "Other" Role'	N/A
3/22/18	New users added to Elements		Expanded User Base	Postdocs and graduate students are now in UGA Elements. You can add them to activities using the name look-up fields.	N/A
3/22/18	New Version of the Unit Faculty Research Summary v2.0		Upgraded report	A new version of the Unit Faculty Research Summary v2.0 (UFRS) is available for unit heads. The UFRS is a unit-level report that includes the number of Journal articles, Books, Chapters, Proceedings of Conferences, Professional/Scholarly Presentations, Active Sponsored Projects, the Share² of Active Awards (Prorated³ $) and the Share² of New Awards (Prorated³ $). Amounts Dollar amounts are based only on award increments already received "Share" is award amount x % of intellectual credit "Prorated" is the portion of award amount within the report range.	v2.0
2/28/18	Interface/ EAS	Sponsored Projects	Grants Feed changes	We are now feeding user-grant relationships with 0% intellectual credit. This is visible in the SPA grants data and in the EAS report.	EAS 1.5.2
1/22/18	EAS	Other Funding	EAS	The Other funding grants type is now sorted by status on the EAS report.	EAS 1.5.2
12/21/17	EAS		New fields	New EAS v1.5.1 update is live and includes the new field for Internet publications and Software/Code. See below.	EAS v1.5.1
12/21/17	Publications	Internet publications	New field	Added "Number of page views per year" Boolean field	Elements v5.8
12/21/17	Publications	Software/Code	New field	Added "Number of downloads per year" Boolean field	Elements v5.8
11/20/17	Interface Upgrade			New features and improvements: Author first names can now be entered via the user interface when adding a manual record. Full names entered in the UI are also available in the API. On the Create Links page users can now access more than 25 results using navigation adjacent to the results count. If a user had more than one link to a publication (editor and author), this could appear as duplicate entries on the Elements Profile page. This has been resolved. The Advanced Search page (Explore>System Search) is now restricting the results correctly when a user is added as search criteria. Capitalized first names provided by Crossref are now treated correctly as first name(s) and are no longer split out into initials. GRID (Global Research Institution Database) data included in Elements has been updated to the twenty fourth release which was made available on 8 October 2017. SJR values have been updated to the latest versions published on 21 June 2017. The Logins Report (available at Basic Report>Users & Usage reports) now contains an additional true/false field indicating whether a user has logged into their account. The value is only set to true when the user logs in and remains false if an administrator impersonates the user on their behalf.	Elements v5.8
11/15/17	Elements web portal and Help Section		Support	Added new links and button for “Searching for Collaborators” to system Help section and the homepage of elements.uga.edu	Elements v5.5
9/21/17	CV & Reports	Grants Reports	New Reports	Added current, pending other support forms for NSF, NIH and USDA See support page here: How do I export a report on current and pending (other) support for my federal agency proposal?	Elements v5.5
9/18/17	Professional activities	Educational/Outreach presentations (CAES only)	New field	Added Boolean field called "Reported to GaCounts?" for CAES	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	User Groups	User Profile	Postdoc Profiles	All UGA postdocs will have profiles August 7, 2017. Postdocs will appear with faculty in the unit lists in the interface, but will be filtered from group reports (e.g., UFRS, EUR)	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Teaching	Courses taught	Titles of course	The current abbreviated courses titles will be changed to long names. Ex. Rsch Math Edu will now appear as: "Research Seminar in Mathematics Education" in the interface and in the EAS report. This change is already in place for new teaching records. Past teaching records will be re-fed into Elements over the next few months.	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Professional activities	Proficiency/Skill	New activity type	New type for postdocs/graduate students	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Grants	All grants types	New field	New Sponsor Award ID field	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Teaching activities	Courses taught	Renamed field	The manual field named, "Additional course characteristics" is now called "Major course revisions"	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Teaching activities	Program developed	New field	New Co-developer field	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Teaching activities	Guest lectures	Change in name/new fields/renamed fields	The activity type "Guest lectures" name was changed to "Guest teaching" with these new fields: Type of involvement= (Guest critic, Curator, Lecturer, Observer, Panelist, Reviewer, Speaker and Workshop leader), Summary of involvement text field and a Co-participants field.	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Professional activities	Library/Archive/Museum services	New activity type	New activity designed for Libraries/Museum faculty	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Publications	Recognition/Reproduction of my work	New activity type	New type designed to record when someone recognizes or reproduces a work. This was designed primarily for creative arts faculty.	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Publications	Visual design	New activity type	New type to record the creation of visual art	Elements v5.5
8/5/17	Publications	Review of my work	New activity type	New type to record a review of your work	Elements v5.5
6/16/17	Interface Upgrade			The Elements Interface was upgraded to V5.5 in order to take advantage of improvements and new features. The upgrade includes these improvements: Automatic claiming Interface version V5.5 introduced automatic claiming for publications using author identifiers. The system does this by continuously analyzing publication data already captured for author identifiers. Now when users visit their Pending Publications page, they may be presented with a short set of questions which will allow them to confirm whether or not an author identifier is in fact theirs. Once confirmed, Elements will then automatically claim all publications which features that identifier and continue to do so in the future. Conversely, by declaring that an identifier is in fact not theirs (e.g. an identifier associated with an author of the same name), all publications which feature that identifier will be automatically rejected and no longer be offered to the user as a pending publication by Elements. You can add/manage your identifiers under Menu/Publications/Automatic claiming. Date of Acceptance is now included in PubMed records where the data is available. Web of Science search settings have been adjusted to limit false positives.	Elements v5.5
6/12/17	Grants	All	New relationship attributes	User-Grant relationships are now named in a more US-centric way (e.g., “Has principal investigator”) and now allow “consultant” relationship	Elements v5.2
6/12/17	Grants	All	Change translation of Portal Roles	Elements has now adopted the UGA policy of having only one PI for a Sponsored project; all others are co-investigators, consultants, or senior/key personnel	Elements v5.2
6/12/17	Publications	Instructional materials	New choice value	Added "Research guide" to the Instructional materials type field	Elements v5.2
6/21/17	Publications	Dance; Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; Theatre	New choice value	Added "Team member" to the choice field, "Selection process"	Elements v5.2
6/7/17	Publications	Dance; Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; Theatre	Renamed choice value	Renamed the choice value of Contributing artist to Contributor/Contributing artist in the Level of role choice field	Elements v5.2
6/7/17	Publications	Dance; Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; Theatre	Renamed choice value	Renamed the choice value of Media (e.g., film, CD, DVD, web content) to Media (e.g., film, CD, DVD, print, web content) in the Object choice field	EAS v1.4.1
6/7/17	Publications	Dance; Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; Theatre	New choice values	Added the choices of: Directed (art,design) and Edited/Transcribed to the Action Choice field	Elements v5.2
6/7/17	Publications	Dance; Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; Theatre	New choice values	Added the choices of: Plan/Blueprint and Fabric/Textiles to the Object choice field	Elements v5.2
6/1/17	Publications	Dance; Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; Theatre	New choice value	Added the choice of "None" to the field, Selection process	Elements v5.2
5/5/17	Professional Activities	Event administration; Event participation; Educational event; Educational/Outreach presentation; Event judging; Media distribution	New choice value	Added "Young Dawgs" as a choice for the Event type field used in these activity types: Event administration; Event participation; Educational event; Educational/Outreach presentation, Event judging; and Media distribution	Elements v5.2
5/5/17	Professional Activities	Event administration	New choice value	Added new Administrative role value of "Curator" to the choice field	Elements v5.2
5/5/17	Publications	Software/Code	Field name change	Changed the Notes field to Description and move to the essential fields section	Elements v5.2
4/11/17	Custom Reports	NA	New Group-level Report	The team released a new report called the Elements User Report (EUR). This report will provide Deans, Associate Deans and Department Heads with data on Elements usage in their units to help ensure the quality and completeness of the data available to them. Information about this report is located here:	Elements v5.2
4/11/17	Custom Reports	NA	Fix to the Unit Faculty Research Summary (UFRS)	The team applied a fix to the UFRS that will resolve a calculation issue in the number of activities.	Elements v5.2
4/7/17	User Profile	NA	HR Feed	The team released a change in the algorithm that determines how administrators are captured for reporting.	Elements v5.2
4/7/17	User Profile	NA	Position Title Casing	The team released a fix to correct title casing in position titles (Ex. Librarian Iii, is now III)	Elements v5.2
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
1/30/17	Teaching Activities	Courses Taught	Final Teaching Load	The Final Teaching load from the Office of Institutional Research was applied for Fall 2016	Elements v5.2
1/5/16	Publications	Fine arts activities	Added new choice value for Arts object	Added "Honor ensemble (choral, instrumental)" to the Object field for Fine arts activities	Elements v5.2
1/5/16	Publications	Fine arts activities	Renamed choice value for "Level of role"	Changed the "Level of role" choice value of "Featured artist" to "Featured artist/performer/conductor"	Elements v5.2
1/5/16	Teaching Activities	Student/Postdoc supervision	New/revised values for Supervisory role	New: Capstone (Recital, Exhibit, Portfolio) evaluation committee chair; Capstone (Recital, Exhibit, Portfolio) evaluation committee member; Professional/Non-thesis master's committee member Revised: Undergraduate honors thesis to "Undergraduate thesis"; Professional master's (non-thesis) to "Professional/Non-thesis master's committee chair"	Elements v5.2
12/10/16	Teaching Activities	Student/Postdoc supervision	Renamed choice value for the Supervisory role field	Changed "Supervised research" to "Supervised research/scholarship/creative works"	Elements v5.2
12/9/16	Elements Activity Summary (EAS)	Slightly revised EAS version upgrade from v1.4	EAS v1.4.1 release	Several professional activities are now sorted by more than one value and displayed on the same line: Ex. Regional: Continuing education If one of these fields is missing a value in your record, you will see undefined next to it on the EAS. Ex. Regional: Event Type undefined Add missing data to this field and reprint your EAS to correct Note: This completes EAS changes for spring 2017 evaluations.	EAS v1.4.1
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
12/6/16	Unit Faculty Research Summary (UFRS)	New Pilot Report for Unit Heads	New report	The UGA Elements Reporting Action Team is piloting a new group report named the Unit Faculty Research Summary (UFRS) to address the reporting needs of Unit leaders. This report is not comprehensive across all UGA missions as a pilot, but we hope to make improvements based on faculty feedback over the next few months. If you cannot access your group report following these instructions, please contact UGA Elements. Follow these instructions to run this report for your unit: How to export a Unit Faculty Research Summary (UFRS)	UFRS v1
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
12/5/16	Elements Activity Summary (EAS)	New EAS Version	EAS v1.4 release	EAS v1.4 was released and includes these improvements: Publications All activities from the Publication module are now separated into three distinct sections on the EAS report: Publications, Scholarly activities, and Creative works Most publications are sorted by Status (Published,Published online; Accepted, Submitted, and In preparation). If you have not added a status to a publication, it will display in the EAS as: "Status undefined". To change this, add a status to the activity and re-run your EAS to capture this sorting value. The Publications category includes and is now listed in this order (Books, Monographs; Journal articles, Journal articles: Unspecified review/referee status; Chapters, Theses/Dissertations; Reports; Proceedings of Conferences (published); Encyclopedia articles; Catalogs; Abstracts, Book reviews, Popular press; Internet publications; and Working papers) The Scholarly activities category includes:(Patents, Professional/Scholarly Presentations (unpublished); Posters; Software/Code; Datasets. These activities are listed in alpha order The Creative work category includes (Compositions; Dances, Exhibited art; Film/Video/Media; Music; Performance art; and Theatre. These activities are listed in alpha order You can now report on the new arts field: "Number of performances at this venue" for Dance, Exhibited art, Film/Video/Media, Music, Performance art and Theatre Grants Grants are now sorted by Status (Awarded, Completed, Draft, Not funded, not submitted, Pending sponsor review and University review) Professional activities Most professional activities are now sorted by Scope. If you have no data in the Scope field, you will see "Scope undefined" on your EAS. You can go back to the activity and add this information and then reprint your EAS to capture this sorting value. Teaching New teaching table shows Course name, Delivery mode (lecture, supervised lab, etc); Enrollment; Course credit hours; Course credit hour production; % responsibility; Individual credit hours, Individual credit hour production. You can also report on the three manually-entered fields: Additional course characteristics; Pedagogical highlights; and Average number of contact hours per week.	EAS v1.4
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
12/2/16	Interface Upgrade	New Interface Version	New version 5.2	The new v5.2 interface version was loaded recently. This release includes the new MLA (Modern Language Association) database. You can add the search for this database in "My Search Settings" frpm the menu. Information about the new functionality for this version is contained within the instructional pages for the "User Profile" and Home page.	Interface v5.2
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
12/1/16	Unit Faculty Research Summary	New Pilot Report for Unit Heads	New report	The UGA Elements Reporting Action Team is piloting a new group report named the Unit Faculty Research Summary (UFRS) to address the reporting needs of Unit leaders. This report is not comprehensive across all UGA missions as a pilot, but we hope to make improvements based on faculty feedback over the next few months. If you cannot access your group report following these instructions, please contact UGA Elements. Follow these instructions to run this report for your unit: How to export a Unit Faculty Research Summary (UFRS)	UFRS v1
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
12/1/16	Publications	Dance, Exhibited art, Film/Video/Media, Music, Performance art and Theatre	New choice values	Added new values to these choice lists: “Choreographer” to the field “Level of role” and “Creative research lab” to the field “Selection process”	EAS v1.3
11/22/16	Publications	Patents	New required date/Change name of field	The new required date for patent is "Filed date". The Abstract field name was changed to "Non-confidential Disclosure"	EAS v1.3
11/22/16	Publications	Dance, Exhibited art, Film/Video/Media, Music, Performance art and Theatre	New choice value	Added "Performance/Utilization of my creative work" to the field "Action"	EAS v1.3
11/22/16	Publications	Dance, Exhibited art, Film/Video/Media, Music, Performance art and Theatre	New choice value	Added "Composer" to "Level of role"	EAS v1.3
11/18/16	Teaching Activities	Courses taught	New field	Added new manual field to capture "Average number of contact hours per week"	EAS v1.3
11/18/16	Publications	Dance, Exhibited art, Film/Video/Media, Music, Performance art and Theatre	New field	Added new field to capture "Number of performances at this venue"	EAS v1.3
11/15/16	Publications	Dance, Exhibited art, Film/Video/Media, Music, Performance art and Theatre	Reordered the fields	Reordered the fields to optimize easy of entry	EAS v1.3
11/15/16	Publications	Professional/Scholarly presentations, unpublished	New choice value	Added "Master class" as a new presentation type	EAS v1.3
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
11/7/16	Professional Activities	Reviewing/Refereeing: Manuscripts (other than journal)	New field	Added new choice field "Manuscript type" with values of: Book, Chapter, Monograph, Thesis/Dissertation and Other. If you choose other, you can add information to the "Description of "Other Manuscript type" field.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Teaching Activities	Student/Postdoc supervision	New field	For the Supervisory role choice of "Other", you can now add information in the Description of "Other" Supervisory role field.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Professional Activities	Educational event Educational/Outreach presentation Editorship Event administration Event participation Media distribution Professional mentoring (non-student)	New field	Where there is the use of fields: Event type, Publication type, Mentee type, Activity type that offers the choice of "Other", you can now capture what "Other" means in the Description of "Other" fields.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Teaching Activities	Student Academic advising	New type	This activity is designed to capture degree-related student advising activities.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Professional Activities	Administrative effort	New fields	Added new field "Administrative duties" to capture a number of activities performed by faculty with a formal administrative assignment. Removed values from Supervisory role that did not belong in this type. Records using the old choices were moved to appropriate type, as needed.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Professional Activities	Extracurricular advising/mentoring	New type	This new type is designed to capture informal student advising/mentoring such as work with student clubs, chapters, groups, teams, honors, youth, etc.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Teaching Activities	Tutoring	New type	This new type is designed to record tutoring activities provided by faculty or academic staff.	EAS v1.3
10/28/16	Publications	Instructional materials	New type	This activity is designed to capture Instructor's manuals, Laboratory manuals, Training materials, Study guides, etc.	EAS v1.3
10/12/16	Professional Activities	Association/Society/Club memberships Board memberships Committee memberships	Name changes	Changed the names of all membership types so they will be grouped in the interface. We hope that this makes it easier for users to locate them and help prevent inconsistent entry of membership activities. Memberships: Association/Society/Club Memberships: Board Memberships: Committee	EAS v1.3
10/12/16	Professional Activities	Conference reviewing/refereeing Curriculum reviewing/refereeing Grant reviewing/refereeing Journal reviewing/refereeing Manuscript reviewing/refereeing	Name changes	Changed the names of all of reviewing/refereeing types so they are grouped in the interface. We hope that this makes it easier for users to locate them and help prevent inconsistent entry of reviewing/refereeing activities. Reviewing/Refereeing: Conferences Reviewing/Refereeing: Curricula Reviewing/Refereeing: Grant proposal Reviewing/Refereeing: Journals Reviewing/Refereeing: Manuscripts (other than journal)	EAS v1.3
10/11/16	Professional Activities	Educational event Educational/Outreach presentation Editorship Event administration Event participation Media distribution Professional mentoring (non-student)	New field	Where there is the use of fields: Event type, Publication type, Mentee type, Activity type that offers the choice of "Other", you can now capture what "Other" means in the Description of "Other" fields.	EAS v1.3
10/10/16	Publications	Popular press	New field	We are adding a new type for Instructional materials, so record using instructional materials choices will be moved to this type. We have created a new contribution type field that has values for Popular press types only.	EAS v1.3
9/26/16	Professional Activities	Other memberships	Records moved, Activity type inactivated	Records from "Other memberships" were moved to either Association/Society, Board or Committee memberships and this type was turned off to inconsistent use of membership types.	EAS v1.3
9/19/16	Publications	Multiple types	Status field/date field	The publication date field name was changed to "Publication/Status date". You can now use a status other than published and use this date field which is now mandatory. All statuses will now appear in the EAS report if the status field is populated.	EAS v1.3
9/12/16	Professional Activities	Employee supervision	Removed field	Removed the field "Consent obtained for name release", "Employee type", and "Publication type". These fields no longer worked with this type after our interface clean-up.	EAS v1.3
9/12/16	Teaching Activities	Student/Trainee supervision	Name change/New field	Changed name of this activity to Student/Postdoc supervision; Added field "Description of "Other" Supervisory role	EAS v1.3
9/7/16	Professional Activities	Editorship	New values for Publication type	Added two new values to the choice list for "Publication type" = Popular press and Newsletter	EAS v1.3
9/7/16	Professional Activities	Journal reviewing/refereering	Removed field	Removed the "Publication type" and "Review type" fields	EAS v1.3
9/7/16	Professional Activities	Curriculum/Grants/Journal/Manuscript reviewing/refereeing	Field name change	Changed the field name "Works reviewed/refereed" to "Number of works reviewed/refereed during time frame"	EAS v1.3
9/7/16	Professional Activities	Professional development	Professional development type choice list change	Changed choice value of "Faculty fellowship" to "Fellowship". Added new value of "Training program"	EAS v1.3
9/7/16	Professional Activities	Institutional review	Name change	Changed the activity name to Institutional/Program review	EAS v1.3
9/6/16	Professional Activities	Fellowship	Moved records/inactivated the "Fellowships" activity type	Due to inconsistent reporting of Fellowships, 183 records were moved from the Fellowship type to "Professional development" which has a choice field value of "Fellowships". As of 9/6/16, the standalone activity type "Fellowship" is no longer available in the interface.	EAS v1.3
9/6/16	Professional Activities	Educational event	Added value of "Study abroad" to Event type	Educational events uses a field called "Event type". You can now choose "Study abroad" from this choice list to capture your study abroad activities	EAS v1.3
9/6/16	Professional Activities	Consulting/Advisory	Name change	Due to inconsistent reporting of consulting and advising activities, we changed the name of Consulting/Advisory to "Consulting". Use this type for paid consulting activities. In another section, you will see that we have added two new advising types for academic advising and extracurricular advising/mentoring.	EAS v1.3
9/6/16	Professional Activities	Employee supervision	Moved affected records/renamed title field to "Employee position"/Removed consent for name release Boolean/Removed fields for "Supervisory role" and "Employee type"	Due to inconsistent reporting of graduate student committee supervision with employee supervision, we have made the following changes to prevent confusion: Employee supervision: Added instructional text; Removed fields which included values that may seemed like graduate student committee work. Employee supervision is intended for staff supervision activities. Student/doc supervision: Added instructional text; Removed Advisory role values that caused confusion.	EAS v1.3
9/1/16	Professional Activities	Grant application assessment	Name change	Changed the activity name from Grant application assessment to: "Reviewing/Refereeing: Grant proposal"; Changed field Number of assessments..." to "Number of applications reviewed/refereed"; Removed the fields "Institution" and "Department/Division"; Changed the name of the field "Funding organization" to "Organization"	EAS v1.3
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
6/22/16	Professional Activities	Educational event; Educational/outreach presentation; Event administration; Event judging/assessment; Event participation; and Media distribution	New underlying field choice value="FFA event"	Added underlying field value of "FFA" event for CAES youth events	EAS v1.1
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
6/20/16	New User interface/New Home Page format	N/A	New Homepage Navigation	Elements Release Notes New user interface that includes: Drop-down menu; simplified Home page and system navigation Improved publication claiming using user search settings to retrieve and disambiguate publication metadata from external data sources; The most significant change is that as from v5.1, Elements will additionally start analyzing the data harvested from external sources to create new pending and/or claimed links to Elements user accounts if it thinks there is a good match to the search settings associated with a user’s account. A key explanation for this change in approach is that many of our external data sources now provide author identifiers in their metadata, and so we have enhanced the Elements harvester to automatically find and claim publications for those researchers that include person identifiers in their search settings This change will further increase Elements’ ability to automatically link researchers to their works with little to no manual intervention. Full name, author affiliation and email addresses are now collected from PubMed & Europe PMC. Elements v5.1 will also look for and use other person identifiers contained in data harvested from external data sources, including ORCIDs.	Interface v5.1
Release Date	Module/Category	Activity type, if applicable	Type of Change	Description	Version
6/7/16	Publications	Proceedings of Conferences (published)	New field	Added new sub-type choice field = "Abstract"; "Extended abstract"; and "Full article"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Other memberships	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Association/Society memberships	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Board memberships	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Clinical services	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Conference reviewing/refereeing	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Distinctions/Awards	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Grants	Other funding	EAS Report	Added description field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Reports	New Choice List Value	Added new Report type choice value of "White paper"; captured on the EAS report	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Posters	EAS Report	Added "Scope" and "Invited?"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Books, Chapters, Journal Articles & Reports	New Field	Added new field for "Reprint?" if publication was reprinted; captured on the EAS	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Books, Chapters, Journal Articles & Reports	New field	Added new field for "Translation Language", if publication was translated; captured on the EAS report	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional activities	Multiple	New choice value	Added the audience type of "Volunteer" to Target audience	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Educational/Outreach presentations	New field	Added a new "Outreach role" field = "Coordinator"; "Co-presenter"; "Presenter" and "Supporter"; captured on the EAS report	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Broadcast interviews	New field	Added "Interviewee name" field; captured on the EAS report	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Print interviews	New field	Added "Interviewee name" field; captured on the EAS report	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Distinctions/Awards	New field	Added "Nominated by" field; captured on the EAS report Note: Use "Effective date" for this field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Book Review	New type	Added new publication type "Book reviews"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Encyclopedia articles	New type	Added new publication type "Encyclopedia articles" Note: If you entered these in chapters, you may want to reassign these to this new type	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Working papers	New type	Added new publication type "Working papers"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Monograph	New type	Added new publication type "Monographs"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Professional/Scholarly presentations, (unpublished)	EAS Report	Added "Keynote/Plenary" fields	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Teaching activities	Non-UGA courses taught	New Type	Added new Teaching type for "Non-UGA courses taught"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Posters	EAS Report	Added "Scope" and "Invited" fields	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Proceedings of conferences (published)	EAS Report	Added "Invited" and "Keynote/Plenary" fields	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Teaching Activities	Student/Trainee supervision	EAS Report	Added "Description of Other" field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	User Profile	Academic appointments (Non-UGA)	EAS Report	Profile section added	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	User Profile	Non-academic employment	EAS Report	Profile section added	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	User Profile	Certifications	EAS Report	Profile section added	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	User Profile	Degrees	EAS Report	Profile section added	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	User Profile	Post-graduate training	EAS Report	Profile section added	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	User Profile	Language competencies	EAS Report	Profile section added	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Grants	SPA grants	Field Name Change	Changed Amount to "Amount at UGA"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Administrative effort/Supervision	Activity Type Name Change	Change activity type name to "Administrative effort"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Grants	Foundation/Endowment gift/income	New Type	Added new grants activity type to move records from SPA grants as part of our revision plan. These are gift and other (various) income held mostly in foundation accounts and tracked through eResearch Portal in the Office of Research. This revenue is not normally considered sponsored funding.	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Popular Press	EAS Report	Added text field for "Contribution type="Other"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Professional/Scholarly presentations (unpublished)	EAS Report	Added text field for "Contribution type="Other"	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Professional Activities	Clinical services	EAS Report	Removed "Address (Location of Service)	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Publications	Proceedings of conferences (published)	EAS Report	Removed "Abstract" field	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Elements Activity Summary (EAS)	Formatted EAS report Header and Footer	EAS Report	Added Last name, first initial to Header and Page number to footer	EAS v1.1
6/7/16	Elements Activity Summary (EAS)	Formatting changes for readability	EAS Report	Made general changes to formatting to improve readability, particularly among publication types	EAS v1.1
9/1/16	Teaching Activities	Student/Trainee supervision	Activity Type Name Change	Changed the name of this activity type to "Student supervision"	EAS v1.1
9/1/16	Professional Activities	Consulting/Advisory	Activity Type Name Change	Changed the name of this activity type to "Consulting".	EAS v1.1

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