Northwestern Elements

System Administrators
The most powerful role in Elements is the System Administrator. They see all the menu options, can make changes to all parts of the system and embody all other roles in Elements. There should be relatively few System Administrators. Only System Administrators can add local users and create other System Administrators. System Administrators cannot remove themselves from this list. If someone needs to be removed, another System Administrator must complete this task.

Research Information Administrators
The Research Information Administrator is a powerful role in Elements.  They see most menu options, can make changes to most parts of the system, and embody all other roles (except for System Administrator) in Elements.  There should be relatively few Research Information Administrators.

Research Information Verifier
Research Information Verifiers will see additional tools in the publications lists of the users they impersonate. In these lists, the verification status of publications will be shown in the header bar. Verification staff can change this status, and can also filter the list to show only papers with a particular status. The ability to 'lock' manually added records will be limited to users granted a new 'Research Information Verifier' role.

Rights for System Roles

The following table summarizes the rights available to the System roles: