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Virginia Tech Experts: About Virginia Tech Experts
What is Virginia Tech Experts?
Welcome to Virginia Tech Experts: Advancing Our Global Land-Grant Mission
Discover Virginia Tech research and experts across disciplines
Virginia Tech Experts (experts.vt.edu)
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.
Would you like a profile? Find out how to create your profile and make it visible to others!
Questions? Would you like a demo, Q&A, or training for your group? Contact: experts@vt.edu
Communication Strategy
The Implementation Team is focusing on an initial roll-out communication strategy including the following from Fall 2021 - Summer 2022:
- increase awareness of Virginia Tech Experts profiles including where the information comes from and how to update their profile and make it visible.
- encourage Virginia Tech employees and graduate students to visit their profiles, check their information, and publicly display their profile on Virginia Tech Experts
- clearly show directions for updating information, and for hiding information when desired so that it is not shown in Virginia Tech Experts
- provide options to offer feedback on the system and report problems.