Building Your Academic Online Persona

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Building Your Academic Online Persona

Michael Ladisch UCD Library [email protected]

Why should I create an online persona? • • • • • • •

Global connectedness Engage directly with your audiences Boosts your exposure You receive real feedback Creating and sharing content Establish credibility Everybody’s doing it

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Outline: • UCD Research Repository • Scholarly Social Networks • ResearchGate; Academia.edu

• General Social Networks • Twitter

• Google Scholar Citations • Blogging • Research Blogging

• Personal Website • Alt-metrics • ORCID

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School website

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Research Repository UCD

http://researchrepository.ucd.ie/ • • • • • • • • • •

Repository for publications by UCD researchers Open Access Copyright checking done by Library staff Integrated with RMS Bulk upload options Viewing and download statistics Long term access and storage Being searched by Google Scholar Showcase for author, School, institution RSS feed to School website Michael Ladisch UCD Library, March 2014

Research Repository UCD

http://researchrepository.ucd.ie

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Research Repository UCD

School/Institute Collection

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Research Repository UCD

Publication Metadata

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Research Repository UCD

Publication PDF Cover Page

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Research Repository UCD

Publication Statistics

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Research Repository UCD

School/Institute Statistics

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Increase in citations with Open Access Agricultural sciences Physics/astronomy Medicine Communications Studies (IT) Computer Science Mathematics Political science Electrical engineering Philosophy Biology

200% to 600% 170% to 580% 300% to 450% 200% 157% 35% to 91% 86% 51% 45% -5% to 36%

Swan, A. (2010) The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical Report , School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton

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Scholarly Social Networks General Social Networks http://ie.linkedin.com/ http://www.academia.edu/

http://twitter.com/

https://www.researchgate.net/

https://www.facebook.com/ http://www.ssrn.com/

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Social Networks for Researchers

Some tips: • Maintain your profiles In Internet slang, troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the • Be consistent Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off• Use your full name topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat • Cross-link your different profiles room, or blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers • Don’t be a “Troll” into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. • Be always polite • Add copyright statement for your work and respect other’s [1]

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(Source: Wikipedia)

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Social Networks for Researchers

Before signing up: • Be aware that your profile is public • Read the small print • Who owns the data? • Third party services can close down; they can be sold

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Social Networks for Researchers

http://tosdr.org

“I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web.

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ResearchGate

Social Sciences 83,000

Medicine 658,000

Biology 522,000

Engineering 364,000

http://www.researchgate.net/ Michael Ladisch UCD Library, March 2014

ResearchGate Fact sheet: • Started in 2008 • Membership is free • 3 million members (Nov. 2013) • More than 11 million papers (= 50 million abstracts) • More than 15,000 job listings • 1,626 members from UCD (with 7,844 publications)

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ResearchGate

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Academia.edu

http://www.academia.edu/ Michael Ladisch UCD Library, March 2014

Academia.edu Fact sheet: • Started in 2008 • Membership is free • 5.4 million members (Nov. 2013) • More than 1.6 million papers • 5 million unique visitors per month • 1,060 members from UCD

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Academia.edu

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Other Networks • LinkedIn – multidisciplinary (& commercial) https://ie.linkedin.com/ • VIVO – multidisciplinary - http://vivoweb.org/ • Social Science Research Network http://www.ssrn.com/ • Kudos – multidisciplinary - http://www.growkudos.com/ • Epernicus – Science https://www.epernicus.com/network

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https://twitter.com/

Basics… • Communications are called “tweets” • 140 characters or less! • Subjects referred to by using a hashtag “#” • Refer to someone by using “@” before their username • Can “retweet” – send on tweets from others to your followers

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https://twitter.com/

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Tweet about new publications Get feedback on ideas Great for reaching external audiences Tweet from conferences

• Remember…all tweets are public!

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https://twitter.com/

Highly tweeted articles are 11 times more likely to be highly cited than less tweeted articles.

Eysenbach, G. (2011). Can tweets predict citations? Journal of Medical Internet Research 13 (4)

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Twitter feeds can be useful for up to the minute updates on topics of interest, including real time conference updates !

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https://twitter.com/

Lists of academic tweeters by LSE (by discipline): http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/ 09/02/academic-tweeters-your-suggestions-in-full/ Twitter guide http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/ 09/29/twitter-guide/

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Follow or tweet from conferences

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Manage multiple social media accounts Michael Ladisch UCD Library, March 2014

https://hootsuite.com/

Google Scholar Citations http://scholar.google.com/

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Google Scholar Citations http://scholar.google.com/

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Blogging

http://www.blogger.com/

http://wordpress.com/

http://www.typepad.com/

https://www.tumblr.com/

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Academic blogs can be interesting sources of new and cutting edge research.



PhD students start blogging to put their thoughts out there – bounce ideas off others and invite comments to further enhance their journey towards their finished dissertations.

Looking for blogs of interest?

http://researchblogging.com/

Personal Website

http://wordpress.com/ http://flavors.me/

http://www.weebly.com/ http://www.dreamhost.com/

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Personal Website

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Alt-metrics Previously measured • • • •

Potentially measured

Citations Journal Impact Factor Grant money Awards

Source: S. Konkiel, Univ. of Indiana

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Alt-metrics

Potentially measured • • • • • • • •

Viewed (publisher websites, Dryad) Downloaded (publisher websites , Slideshare, Dryad) Cited (WoS, Scopus, PubMed, Wikipedia, CrossRef) Shared (Facebook, Twitter) Reused/adapted (Github) Bookmarked ( Mendeley, CiteULike, Delicious) Purchased (Library catalogues, Sales numbers) Commented upon (Twitter, Mendeley, blogs, publisher websites, Wikipedia, Faculty 1000)

Source: S. Konkiel, Univ. of Indiana

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Alt-metrics

http://www.altmetric.com/

http://impactstory.org/

http://www.plumanalytics.com/

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Alt-metrics

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ORCID http://orcid.org/

More information can be found on our LibGuide at http://libuide.ucd.ie/orcid Michael Ladisch UCD Library, March 2014

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