social media for research
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Where is my network?Identify where your existing or potential colleagues / collaborators share their work
What does a site / network do?Enable you to share your publications, add skills & experience
Create groups, connections
Find publications or jobs you might be interested in
Use as many as you want – always link back to one main source which you keep updated
No right or wrong answer/option
Why does a site exist?
What terms & conditions are you signing up to?
Modifications to these terms & conditions?
Who owns the site?Is it a commercial company, an academic networking tool, a university, a publisher?
How stable is it?Will it still exist in a year’s time?
Will the current owner still own it in future?
Build up your profile
Add your photo
Upload CV information
Find colleagues
Upload / claim publications
Join groups
Academia.edu“Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.
Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. 15,527,688 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 4,240,381 papers and 1,315,743 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 15.7 million unique visitors a month.”
From: http://www.academia.edu/about
Linked In
Professional version of Facebook
Create (and complete) your profile
Add status updates
Build your network by connecting to colleagues
Follow companies / organisations – can get email updates
Job opportunities – used by employers, recruitment companies
Connections can endorse your skills
Mendeley
Manage your research
Download software – also has web based version plus iPad app
Collaborate and build your network
Create groups, share paper information – can only upload papers for which you have the right to do so
TwitterMicroblogging – post message of 140 characters or less – a tweet
Monitor the conversationkeep up to datefind out things quicklyfind papers
Participate in the conversationPublic engagementIncrease the visibility of your researchRaise your online identityEngage in discussion
Use a dashboard to monitor lists, hashtags, conferences
Repositories vs social networksRepository
“a store where electronic data, databases or digital files have been deposited, usually with the intention of enabling their access or distribution over a network”1
Why does a repository exist?Institutional – enhance the visibility and impact of the research output of an institutionSubject based - RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), arXiv– physics, Europe Pubmed Central – biomedical and life sciencesCan hold different types of content
Who is the ‘parent organisation’ – who owns the site?
1Polydoratou (2006) https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1473
Middlesex University Research Repository
Research Repository
Preserves research publications, persistent link
Research output of the institution
Link to staff profiles
Easy to add research
Uses standards to enable research funders to check compliance
Deposit on Acceptance Requirement for REF2020
Copyright
Be careful…
Check your copyright agreement, assign re-use rights (Creative Commons)
Keep your copyright transfer agreement
Where are you allowed to archive copies of your publication/s and which version is allowable?
Pre-print
Post-print (post peer reviewed version)
Publisher PDF
SHERPA-RoMEO – good place to check
Wikipedia: Comparison of Research Networking Tools and Research
Profiling Systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_research_networking_tools_and_research_profiling_systems
Further informationCann, A., Dimitriou, K. and Hooley, T. (2011) Social media: A guide for researchers. Research Information Network. Available at:http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers (Accessed 13 November 2014).
Duke and Jordan Ltd (2011) Social Networking Sites and their role in Scholarly Communications – A Study for the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. Available at: http://crc.nottingham.ac.uk/projects/rcs/Social_Networking_Report-Duke&J... (accessed 13 November 2014).
Duy, J. (n.d.) Networking Sites for Academics: What’s At Stake? Available from: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978173/1/Networking_Sites_for_Academics__What%E2%80%99s_At_Stake____ABQLA___L%27Association_des_biblioth%C3%A9caires_du_Qu%C3%A9bec_Library_Association.htm (Accessed 13 November 2014).
Miah, A. (2014) A-Z of social media for academics. Available at: http://www.andymiah.net/2012/12/30/the-a-to-z-of-social-media-for-academics/ (Accessed 13 November 2014).
University of Warwick (2014) Popular forms of social media and how to use them. Available at: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/communications/web/socialmedia/channels/ (Accessed 13 November 2014).
Vitae (2014) The value of networking as a researcher. Available at: https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers-professional-development/personal-effectiveness/professional-and-career-development/the-value-of-networking-as-a-researcher/the-value-of-networking-as-a-researcher?searchterm=establishing+networks (Accessed 13 November 2014).
Upcoming Events
Staff Development working on workshop based on– Using Twitter for Research Prezi - https://prezi.com/f9ivxz4pkloj/twitter-for-researchers/ and Ten Days of Twitter http://10daysoftwitter.wordpress.com/
Middlesex Tweets list – People at Middlesex University who Tweet: https://twitter.com/jennye/lists/middlesex-tweets
Vitae Google+ Hangout Event – How to develop your profile in and outside academia? #vitaehangout – 27 November 2pm – 3pm UK time https://www.vitae.ac.uk/events/raising-profile-for-postdoctoral-researchers
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