Creating/Editing a Group

This page allows a Consortium or an Account Administrator to create a new Group in a given Account.

There are two main reasons for setting up Groups:

• ScienceDirect and Scopus settings such as document delivery, links to other platforms, and additional application preferences can be specified for each group, allowing you to customize how end users in different parts of your organization experience and use Scopus and ScienceDirect, and thus meet their individual needs better.
• ScienceDirect and Scopus usage reports - available at http://usagereports.elsevier.com - can be broken down by group, allowing you to evaluate ScienceDirect and Scopus usage per organizational unit. This can be used to make better informed decisions about information needs in different parts of your organization, and to allocate cost to departments according to usage patterns.

By setting up Groups, you can:

• Display a link from Scopus to the interlibrary loan pageof the central library for all Groups, except for the hospital department that uses an international document delivery provider.
• Display a link from Scopus to a first author search in PubMed only for the medical department.
• Display a specific library banner for a department.
• Allow credit card purchasing on ScienceDirect for researchers in the research lab only, and not for other employees in other locations.
• View ScienceDirect draw down usage per department to allocate the associated cost accordingly.

To Create/Edit a Group

1. In Group Name, enter the name for the Group.
2. If the Group is to have a Parent Account association, complete the Membership Dates fields for the Group to Parent Account association.
   • In Begin, enter the start date of a Group's association to a Parent Account.
   • In End, enter the end date of a Group's association to a Parent Account.
3. If the User Profile is to be associated with a Group, complete the Default Dates fields for the User Profile to Group association.
   • In Begin, enter the start date of a User Profile's association to a Group.
   • In End, enter the end date of a User Profile's association to a Group.

   • Note	Default Dates for User Profiles are dates to be applied to newly created User Profiles for a Group. If the Default Dates are left blank, then a user for a Group will not have date restrictions except for those applied at the Group or Account level.

4. Click Save to create the new Group.

To Edit Another Group

Edit Another Group lists other Groups associated with your Account. Click a Group name to access the Edit Group page.

This does not display for Group level Administrators viewing at the Account level.

Note	If the Account has a Group with expired Membership Dates, the Group's name will display with an exclamation point () beside the title.

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