Digital Measures

Digital Measures is the name of the company that has developed and supports software to gather, store and retrieve faculty productivity data.

Once faculty activity information has been entered into Digital Measures, it never again needs to be re-entered. This information can be used to generate reports for all stakeholders from the faculty member his/herself to academic leaders (e.g., department chairs, deans, etc.). Faculty will not be asked on a ‘one-off’ basis for information for individual reports that need to be prepared such as for accreditation, annual merit appraisals, rankings, and media surveys.

To log in to the Digital Measures application, navigate to LINK. Use your A&M NetID to login. For help with login issues contact DigitalMeasuresAdmin@mays.tamu.edu.

A Digital Measures record has been started for you. Your basic personal information along with your scheduled teaching for AY17 have been uploaded. You will be responsible for adding publication, service, and other activities to your record.

No, unfortunately the two systems don’t have an easy interface. However, most of your publications will be in Google Scholar and there is a very simple way to upload from Google using BibTeX file format. See the faculty guide or the training videos linked to Maysnet, for help with creating and uploading BibTeX files.

You can add one of these or any attachments on the Manage Activities tool.

You can enter publication data manually OR with an import. There are two ways to import publications into Digital Measures

1. importing a BibTeX file. A BibTeX file can be uploaded from your computer and allows you to import citations from Google Scholar or other databases.
2. finding a PubMed file. PubMed allows you to search for citations (for publications) based on multiple criteria you specify.

See the Digital Measures Faculty & Staff Guide or the training videos linked to Maysnet, for help with importing publication data.

The short answer is “no”. Not every screen or field is relevant to every faculty member. Some screens and fields will also be populated from other sources.

In general, faculty are responsible for entering their own data and confirming that any imported data (from A&M systems and/or citation systems) is correct. While each unit at Mays has an assigned Digital Measures resource person, decision to allocate such resources to data entry is left to the discretion of the unit head.

All data provided by and collected for Mays Business School by Digital Measures is solely owned by Mays Business School. As per the terms in Digital Measures’ standard service agreement, this data cannot be disclosed, reused, sold, or disseminated in any way by Digital Measures.

The Mays Digital Measures Administrator (currently `Jon Jasperson) sets user access permissions for the faculty, administrators, and staff. The Mays security access configuration will allow (a) faculty to run reports only on their own data (b) designated individuals (i.e., Department and Unit Heads and Mays Digital Measures Contact staff) the ability to run reports for their respective departments or units (c) College level administrators to run data for everyone at Mays.

Yes, faculty and academic administrators can run standard reports or use ad hoc reporting to select exact data elements (and date ranges) of interest. Department and Unit heads can also decide whether to include all of their faculty or only data for certain faculty members. Reports are built in real-time using all data entered as of that instant.

Yes, we have published several video tutorials for using Digital Measures. Please see Maysnet for links.

The new annual performance system will be rolled out to all faculty in Fall 2017 for evaluations for Academic Year 2018.