{"id":54239,"date":"2022-02-16T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/?page_id=54239"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:03:45","slug":"scholarly-and-creative-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/academic-process-policies\/faculty-actions\/my-cv\/user-guides\/scholarly-and-creative-works\/","title":{"rendered":"MY CV – Scholarly and Creative Works User Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. My CV Introduction<\/h3>

\nThis User Guide provides details for navigating, modifying and depositing your Scholarly and Creative Works <\/i><\/em>in My CV. There are additional User Guides for other functionality, such as navigating and modifying your profile, grants, teaching activities, and professional activities.. These can be found on the Training and Support page of the My CV Project Website<\/a>.
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2. Accessing My CV<\/h3>

\nAccess My CV at mycv.bu.edu\/<\/a>
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3. Navigation<\/h3>
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3.1\u00a0 Menu Tab<\/h4>\n

Use the tabs across the top to navigate My CV.<\/p>\n

The Menu tab allows navigation to the different modules where you can manage your scholarly and creative works, grants, professional activities, or teaching activities. You can also build a CV or report, explore scholarly and creative works and activities of other BU users, or manage your profile and search settings.<\/p>\n

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3.2\u00a0 Home Page<\/h4>\n

The Home page<\/b><\/strong> allows you to see a summary view of the information you have in My CV as well any outstanding actions you may need to take, including scholarly and creative works you must claim or reject, and scholarly and creative works you must deposit into OpenBU. These outstanding actions are displayed by browsing your My Actions <\/b><\/strong>carousel. If you prefer a list of your actions, you can change the display format, by clicking the buttons pointed out with the blue callout box below.<\/p>\n

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3.3\u00a0 Scholarly and Creative Works Page<\/h4>\n

The My CV Scholarly and Creative Works Module (previously called Publications Module) is used to collect and aggregate your scholarly and creative works. The module includes a built-in tool that searches a set of external data sources including arXiv, PubMed, RePEc, SSRN for scholarly and creative works that belong to you, based on your (editable) search settings. The search tool will looks for scholarly and creative works that belong to you on a regular basis and therefore your scholarly and creative works list will be continually updated. When new scholarly and creative works are found, you will receive an email notification.<\/p>\n

In addition to the automatically gathered scholarly and creative works, you also have the option to edit and create new scholarly and creative works.<\/p>\n

Navigate to your scholarly and creative works page by clicking Menu > My Profile > My Work > Scholarly and Creative works. <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the Scholarly and Creative Works page<\/b><\/strong>, you can view a list of your publication records in My CV. From here you can:<\/p>\n