Social networking sites…where do I start?

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

Google+

Create profile

Create circles – work, friends, family

Share posts / content

Google Hangouts

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

Research GateResearchGate

Social Science Research Network

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