Authors are able to add new publications to IRIS either manually or by importing the record from external sources such as Web of Science or Scopus.
The mandatory fields in Publications are:
Publishing status you can select from are:
Only for the publishing status Advance Online and Published, do you need to Submit the record.
For all other status, just Save the record to keep the record for your publication list and to edit the record.
If you leave publishing status blank when saving the record, it will not show up in your faculty CV.
Select the date using the date picker icon. E.g. 18-05-2016. If you do not know the specific date but you know the month, click on 01-05-2016. If you only know the year, click on 01-01-2016.
This date is used to sort your publications in the CV and on Publications website.
Access IRIS and login using your SMU email and password.
At the top right hand corner of the page, click on Add New > Publications > Publication.
The default is to create the publication record manually. Click on the arrow to open up the options under one group, e.g. Journal related publication types and choose the relevant publication type. A brief description of each publication type is provided to guide you.
After choosing the publication type, key in all mandatory information marked with *. Please fill the other fields where you have the information.
You are encouraged to upload the full text of your publications into IRIS. For most journal publishers, the author-final version (after peer review and before layout in the journal format) is allowed.
Click on the File icon and select the file, then click Open.
Choose Open Access or SMU Access. If the publication is published or advance online, open access is recommended. SMU Access is for other publishing status and publications that are confidential.
Click Save to save changes to the record and to continue editing the record.
Only click on Submit, if your publication has the status Published or Advance Online.
Choose the status For Validation by Library and click Done. Once the record is validated by the Library, you will not be able to edit the record.
If you need to make any changes to a validated record, click on Request change.
In the PDF view, click on Request change at the top grey menu bar 
In the Expand view, click on Request change button at the bottom of the screen 
Type the details of the change in the text box, and click Send.
