Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR)

Full-time and associated faculty can capture their scholarly activities and accomplishments in Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) tool. FAR supports faculty throughout their entire academic lifecycle as they seek grants, submit journal articles, apply for awards, manage promotion and tenure materials, and share their contributions to the university and beyond.

FAR replaced Vita as the university’s faculty information system. Although university policy does NOT require faculty to use FAR for the 2026-27 academic year, FAR may be required for faculty in some colleges and non-college academic units. Faculty needing help with Interfolio, such as questions about FAR requirements in their tenure initiating unit (TIU), should contact their TIU’s Interfolio Coordinators.

All full-time and associated faculty have access to Interfolio’s Ohio State Standard Faculty CV report. This report, which aligns with the Office of Academic Affairs’ current core dossier outline (opens PDF), generates a summary of a faculty member’s research, service and teaching activities.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAR)

FAR FAQs last updated Tuesday, June 16, 2026

What data in FAR is automatically pulled in from other Ohio State systems?

Personal Data, Positions, Academic Appointment, and Grants Data > Workday
- Grants data is editable.
- The following sections contain some data that is not editable, signified by a lock symbol next to a data field: personal, position and academic appointments:
  - If the lock symbol is not displayed, the data can be edited.
  - If incorrect data displays in an uneditable field, this information must be corrected in Workday. Please contact your area’s HR team for more guidance. Workday data cannot be changed by the Faculty Information System (FIS) team, which manages Interfolio at Ohio State.
Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Courses > University Registrar
- This data is not editable.
- If incorrect course data is displayed, first seek help from your academic area’s course scheduler before contacting the Office of the University Registrar. Based on the information that the course scheduler provides, you may also need to contact the University Registrar for assistance. The University Registrar’s course data cannot be changed by the FIS team.

A colleague recommended I try using an ORCID account to manage my publications information. What do you suggest, and what Ohio State resources do you recommend to help me learn more about ORCID?
Ohio State encourages people to use ORCID to manage their publications information.
✓ Due to a current issue, Interfolio does not consistently import information directly from ORCID into Interfolio. Best practices: build your information in ORCID; export to a BibTeX file; and then import into your Interfolio account from this BibTeX file. This is very similar to the process for importing information from Google Scholar (see just below).

Additional guidance from University Libraries: What is ORCID?

Can I import into Interfolio from Google Scholar?
You cannot import directly from Google Scholar. Instead, you can manage your information in Google Scholar; export to a BibTeX file; and then import into your Interfolio account from this BibTeX file.

Step-by-step guidance provided by Dr. Tracy Kitchel, CFAES Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty and Staff Affairs:
🎦 Video: Export from Google Scholar, then import into Interfolio
✓ Video is for faculty in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), but its guidance works for most people at Ohio State.

Additional guidance from Interfolio: Import Scholarly Contributions Citations with Generic Import

Does FAR have a report that aligns with the current Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) Core Dossier outline?
The Faculty Information System (FIS) team, which manages Interfolio at Ohio State, collaborated with Dr. Helen Malone, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, to build FAR’s Core Dossier Report (CDR). The university’s standard CDR uses the APA (7th ed.) citation style. Effective June 16, 2026, the CDR is also available in the following alternate citation styles, each in a separate report that identifies the citation style by name:

Core Dossier Report - APA 7th ed.
Core Dossier Report - Bluebook Law Review
Core Dossier Report - Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. (author-date)
Core Dossier Report - Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. (full note)
Core Dossier Report - MLA 9th ed.
Core Dossier Report - NLM
Core Dossier Report - NLM with PMCID/PMID
Core Dossier Report - Vancouver

For step-by-step instructions to create your own personal copy of the CDR, see the video Create a copy of FAR’s Core Dossier Report (go.osu.edu/copy-far-cdr). If you need more help, please contact an Interfolio Coordinator (IC) in your college or tenure initiating unit (TIU). In addition to being first points of contact for questions about Interfolio, per the FIS Distributed Support model, ICs are responsible for their area’s appointment, reappointment, and promotion and tenure processes. If your IC cannot assist you with an Interfolio concern, they will confer with the FIS team on your behalf.

What citation styles are available for reports created with FAR’s Vitas Builder?
For a current list, see the Interfolio vendor’s help article Supported Citation Styles For Vitas (go.osu.edu/far-citation-styles).
✓ You can apply any of the supported citation styles to your own reports. If you use FAR’s Vitas & Biosketches tool to create a personal copy of an institutional report, your copy will use the same citation style that is applied to the institutional report. For example, Ohio State’s Core Dossier Report (CDR) is currently available in several citation styles (see list above).

Why can I preview publication activities in a variety of citation styles, but my Core Dossier Report uses APA (7th edition)?
Your Core Dossier Report (CDR) was likely created based Ohio State’s first version of the CDR, which uses the newest APA citation style. This style was selected because APA was also used in Ohio State’s two most recent legacy systems (Research in View and Vita).

I would like to have the option of generating my Core Dossier report (CDR) in the citation style that is standard for my academic discipline. How do I request this?
Please relay your request to the Interfolio Coordinators (ICs) designated for your academic unit. In addition to being first points of contact for questions about Interfolio, per the FIS Distributed Support model, ICs are responsible for their area’s appointment, reappointment, and promotion and tenure processes. If your IC cannot assist you with an Interfolio concern, they will confer with the FIS team, on your behalf.

My college has allocated resources and staff to help faculty input their activity information in FAR. How do I give my administrative assistant access to my FAR account in Interfolio?
Faculty can provide proxy (delegate) access to their FAR account. In Interfolio this is called “emulate” access. (Note that the emulate function exists in FAR but is not available in Interfolio’s separate RPT tool.) Faculty can provide emulate access in FAR after taking the following into consideration:

Faculty members are ultimately responsible for information input into their account, whether personally or by another on the faculty member’s behalf.
Interfolio does not provide logging information, so it is not possible for someone to discern when information was added or by whom.
To be assigned proxy access, the delegate must also have a FAR account. Full-time and associated Ohio State faculty automatically have Interfolio access. Staff accounts are requested and managed by the academic area’s Interfolio Coordinator(s) (ICs). If you want to give emulate access to a staff member who does not have an Interfolio FAR account, contact your area’s ICs for assistance.

See also: Full-time faculty or proxy webpage (Ohio State Interfolio resource)

Additional guidance from Interfolio: Configure Faculty Account Access

Additional guidance from Ohio State’s Office of Faculty Affairs: FAR Emulation Considerations

How should someone with disabilities request assistance, if encountering difficulty with Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) tool?
As a first step, please contact your academic unit’s designated Interfolio Coordinators (ICs). They are your designated first points of contact for questions about Interfolio, per the FIS Distributed Support model. If needed, your unit’s ICs will confer on your behalf with the FIS team regarding your concerns.

I have another question not listed here. Whom do I contact?
For all Interfolio questions, including those about training, please reach out to your academic unit’s Interfolio Coordinator(s) (ICs). ICs are associate deans of faculty affairs (or similar) and their teams. They administer their area’s faculty affairs processes—such as those for appointments, and promotion and tenure—and have expertise with related requirements and expectations. If your ICs cannot address your Interfolio concern, they will liaise on your behalf with the Faculty Information System (FIS) team, which manages Interfolio at Ohio State.

FAR Known Issues

Ongoing Known Issues > Interfolio (none)

Last updated Thursday, August 6, 2026

Ongoing Known Issues > FAR

Last updated Thursday, August 6, 2026
Note: This section describes current known issues with Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR) tool, such as managing Activities and generating reports using FAR’s Vita Builder tool.

New FAR issue identified at Ohio State, and reported to Interfolio’s tech team:

FAR Core Dossier Report’s Additional Work Experience data does not display, if report’s selected start year is set to 2015 or thereafter (i.e., 2015 through 2026).

Interfolio company’s issue status: Solution in progress

Issue: Inaccurate displays of sections using traditional style format, within Vita reports exported to PDFs, and Vita reports displayed in RPT cases via the FAR2RPT function.
Issue: When exporting a Vita with sections configured to use the Traditional display style, the data may appear compressed or improperly formatted, or the generated PDF may not match the report’s webpage display.
Issue: Some sections of FAR reports inconsistently display activities’ date ranges, even though the affected sections have the same report display style settings.This issue does not affect reports’ Grants section, which is designed to display differently.

Potential workarounds recommended by Interfolio company: None

Interfolio company’s issue status: In Review

Issue: Vita reports inconsistently display a comma between subsections that are built using traditional and traditional date styles.
Issue: A standalone comma sometimes appears between two subsections of reports created with the Vita Builder. Configuration changes and formatting adjustments do not resolve this problem. Formatting issues may result where the comma appears on its own line or between text boxes, affecting readability of Vita reports.
Issue: In some Vita sections, the traditional-date format is incorrectly displayed. Dates do not reflect the expected traditional-date output, but with a (-) rather than the date data on left and other field data on the right. Users relying on Vita outputs may see inconsistent or incorrect date formatting.
Issue: FAR Vita Builder options for filtering report content do not work, so all content displays in reports, irrespective of selected filters.
Issue: FAR Vita Builder display styles do not show consistent date range outputs, even when they have the same display style; this excludes grants section, which is meant to display differently.
Issue: Display issue for grant records. Grant activity entries can designate whether the grant was funded directly or indirectly. Reports are displaying this information either with the number zero, for indirect funding, or the number one, for direct funding.

Potential workarounds recommended by Interfolio company for above issues: None

FAR Issues now reported as resolved by Interfolio company