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EC Scholar Admin Guide

Project site for library staff responsible for EC Scholar administration.

User Roles for Esploro

The following user roles need to be applied in Alma Configuration for access to maintain assets, researcher profiles, and analytics.

For example:

  • Grants management requires the following roles: Research Assets Manager; Research Depositor
  • Student collection assistants require access to the following role: Research Assets Curator
  • Analytics access requires access to the following role: Research Observer

Esploro User Roles
Role Accessible Components Description
Configuration Manager
  • Research configuration
  • General configuration (to configure integration profiles)
  • Admin – Monitor jobs
  • Analytics – Subscribe to analytics
  • Research – Manage and run research import profiles
 Access all Esploro-related configuration areas.
Organizations Manager
  • Organization Management (Research main menu)
    • Organization Academic Units
    • External Research Organizations

Manage internal and external organization units.
Research Assets Curator
  • Admin – Manage users (read only) and sets
  • Analytics – Subscribe to analytics
  • Research – View and edit assets, manage deposits (not including the assigned to others tab)
  • Organization Management – External Research Organizations (with the Manage External Organizations privilege)
 Manage research deposits and assets.
Research Assets Manager
  • Admin – Manage users (read only), sets, import and publishing profiles and jobs
  • Analytics – Subscribe to analytics
  • Research – Manage assets, deposits (all assignment tabs) and grants
  • Organization Management – External Research Organizations (with the Manage External Organizations privilege)
 Manage research deposits and assets, including assigning deposits to curators
Research Observer
  • Analytics – Subscribe to analytics
  • Research – Manage assets and deposits (read only)
 View-only access to research deposits and assets.
Researcher Manager
  • Admin – Manage users and manage sets
  • Analytics – Subscribe to analytics
  • Research – Manage researchers
 Manage researchers.
Research Depositor
  • Research – Curate deposits (does not include deposit approval).
  • Organization Management – External Research Organizations (with the Manage External Organizations privilege).
 Create and update research deposits.