What is Virginia Tech Experts?
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Virginia Tech Experts shares publicly the data you have already collected in Elements. It is a searchable profile system providing a public facing view of researchers, scholars, educators at Virginia Tech, along with their publications, research interests, teaching, and additional activities. You can search profiles by keyword or leave the search box blank and select 'Search' to browse profiles, and to see filtering options. For example, you can filter profiles by Unit / Department, by Availability to engage in activities such as: mentor graduate students, provide expert commentary, collaborate on research, speak on a panel, and more. You can also filter profiles by subject tags.
Virginia Tech Experts supports identifying potential collaborators and discovery of research, scholarship, creative works, and areas of specialization and expertise across disciplines.
Creating a Virginia Tech Experts profile will also help you to boost online scholarly visibility, as the profile system is discoverable on major search engines, such as Google. See more about online scholarly visibility and profiles at the Researcher Profiles Guide.