Library Workshops for Researchers · Library Workshops for Researchers Social Media Presented by:...

Library Workshops for Researchers

Social Media

Presented by: Josh Clark, Outreach Librarian

James Joyce Library

tel: 7167646

email: joshua.clark@ucd.ie

Keeping Current

• Keeping current with new ways of keeping current is a big job!

• Now more than ever new(ish) technologies, tools and services exist to help you

Keeping Current

• Library resources can help, as well as other online tools (blogs, podcasts, email lists…)

• Alerting services, both by email and RSS feeds, can keep you up-to-date with research in your field

You

Your network • What does your current network look like? • How would you like to see it grow?

Other researchers in your school

Your research group

advisor

Head of school You

Your research group

Other researchers in your school

advisor

Head of school

Other researchers in UCD

People you’ve met at conferences

People on the same email lists as you

College liaison librarian

People whose work you have read

friends

Expanding Your Network

Building a useful network takes time Find out what your current links are interested in to expand your own network A useful network will increase your capacity to have meaningful interactions

RIN Guide, 2011

“I think social media made me a better researcher because I find stuff out a lot quicker. I now have a network of individuals who I respect and am confident in their work. The network discovers and filters and discusses. I have connected my research to the real world in a way that would not have been so easy before and maybe not have been possible. For curriculum development and teaching this has connected me with real issues that interest and engage students and has helped them become student researchers in their own right with a broader and more critical take on issues.” - Terry Wassall, Sociology lecturer, Leeds

Profile • Facebook • Twitter • LinkedIn • blogs

Discover • RSS!

Connect • Twitter • Facebook • Academia.edu • JISCmail

Collaborate • Skype • Dropbox • Mendeley • Google Docs

Collaboration

Academic applications: • Writing a paper • Developing joint presentations • Grant proposals • Online meetings • Sharing papers with your research group • Finding others in the same field • Disseminating your work

blogs in Academia

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.

• Good for group research projects • Get updates from conferences,

seminars, etc • Tweet about new publications • Get feedback on ideas… • Great for reaching external audiences

• Remember…all tweets are public!

Twitter feeds can be useful for up to the minute updates on topics of interest

publisher alerts - twitter

YouTube

Google +

• Like Facebook – more sophisticated?

• Create a profile • Join communities

• Follow people, groups, companies, etc

• Hold an event (video)

Google alerts

email discussion lists

•a good method for keeping informed about particular areas of research

•discussion topics can be quite specialised

•options for how often you receive emails from the group

email discussion lists

email discussion lists

email alerts

• ubiquitous • setup is usually simple • available for new contents,

search histories, etc. • sometimes requires you to sign

up first

publisher alerts

Social networks for researchers

Social networks – useful or not?

Varying degrees of success: • No members means no network • Must solve problems • Looking for solutions, not people

• It’s not the researchers that are

social – it’s the data!

ResearchGate – follow topics

ResearchGate – ask questions

ResearchGate – find people doing similar research

Periodic emails are sent to update you as to new activity

ResearchGate – follow people

Keeping Current Using RSS

• What is RSS? • How does it work?

• How can it help me?

RSS - What is It?

• Really Simple Syndication • Allows web content to be syndicated Bottom line: • You don’t have to visit a website in

order to view its content

RSS – How Does It Work?

• An RSS document, or “feed”, contains a summary of content from a website – title, description and a link to the actual content wherever it resides on the Web

RSS – How Does It Work?

• In order to read these RSS feeds, you need an RSS reader

• RSS readers can be either Web-based or software you download onto your computer

• Majority are freely available!

RSS – What’s in it for Me?

Advantages • Save time • Convenience – have all your updates

come to one portal • Keep updates separate from email

(spam, blocked messages, etc.) • Don’t have to give out personal details

(well, not always at least)

RSS feed readers Popular readers include: • Netvibes

• Bloglines

• Google Reader

BUT there are hundreds of readers out there!

Copy this URL

Within Science Direct you can set up RSS feeds for: •Search results •Topic alerts •New articles/ content recently added to a journal or book (TOC alerts)

In Web of Science you have to sign in to your personal account (free to set up) Once you save the search, you can then set up an RSS feed (or email alert) to be updated

In Web of Science you have to sign in to your personal account (free to set up) Once you save the search, you can then set up an RSS feed (or email alert) to be updated

Within Web of Science, you can also create citation alerts – Whenever someone cites a particular paper you are notified via an RSS feed

An attempt at making RSS easy for researchers & academics

www.journaltocs.ac.uk

http://www.webicina.com/perssonalized/

Feedback!

http://goo.gl/4uwrT

Links

Social Networks for Researchers: ResearchGate (general science): http://www.researchgate.net/

Academia.edu (multidisciplinary): http://www.academia.edu

Nature Network (life sciences): http://network.nature.com/

Mendeley (reference manager & collaborative space): http://www.mendeley.com/

Research Information Network (RIN): Social Media: A Guide for Researchers:

http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

Twitter: www.twitter.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com

Google +: http://plus.google.com

Links

Blogs: Research Blogging (academic blog directory): http://www.researchblogging.org/post-list/list/date/all

BMJ blogs (medicine): http://blogs.bmj.com/

Blog Examples:

http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/

http://emergency-room-nurse.blogspot.com/

Email discussion lists: JISCMail (UK): http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/

LISTSERV directory (US, Canada): http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html

Links

UCD Library links: Library homepage: http://www.ucd.ie/library

findit @UCD Library: http://librarysearch.ucd.ie (log in with UCD Connect details)

Our Collections (theses, conference papers, standards, etc.): http://www.ucd.ie/library/finding_information/our_collections/

Library guides (in PDF): http://www.ucd.ie/library/supporting_you/guides/

UCD Researcher Support: http://www.ucd.ie/library/supporting_you/research_support/

Newspapers: http://www.ucd.ie/library/finding_information/our_collections/newspapers/

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

Theses/dissertations: EThOS (British Library service): http://ethos.bl.uk

DART-Europe E-theses portal: http://www.dart-europe.eu/ (available via findit)

Proquest Dissertations & Theses database (available via findit)

Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations: http://www.ndltd.org/

Links

Conference Proceedings: ACM Digital Library (computer science): (access via findit)

Proquest Entrepreneurship (business): (access via findit)

ISI Proceedings (Web of Science): (access via findit)

Proquest COS Conference Papers Index: (access via findit)

Institutional Repositories: UCD Repository (research_online@UCD): http://researchrepository.ucd.ie

ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories): http://roar.eprints.org/

Rian.ie (Irish IR directory/search engine): http://rian.ie

Repository 66: Repository Maps: http://maps.repository66.org/

Links

RSS Journal TOCs: www.journaltocs.ac.uk/

E-journal feeds by topic: http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/rss/

Email discussion lists: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html