How to get recognition for your Open Science work: practical tools, guidelines and examples

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Arbeitsgruppe Open Science

Practical tools,

examples and guidelines

for getting recognition

Peter Kraker (Know-Center)

YEAR Conference 2015

Seminar 3: How to get recognition for my

Open Science work

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Before we start

Parts of this talk build on the following talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEGrCAjelo

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Main Take-Aways

Go where your community is – your lab homepage is not

enough

Interact and collaborate with your community

Be aware of metrics and communication around your work

Don‘t just be a Me-former, be an informer

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Pre-Prints

Depositing your work in a repository prior to submitting it to

a conference or journal

Benefits

Good scholarly practice

Gives others immediate open access to your work

Makes your work visible to the world immediately

Starts the discussion even before publication

Caveats

Need to check journal/publisher policies

Finding an appropriate preprint archive

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Pre-Prints: Benefits

CC

-BY

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http://www.oastories.org/

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Pre-Prints: Checking Policies

http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

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Pre-Prints: Physics, Math & Computer Science

http://arxiv.org

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Pre-prints: Biology

http://www.biorxiv.org/

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Pre-Prints: Social Sciences, Economy, & Humanities

http://www.ssrn.com/

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There are more…

http://is.gd/preprints

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Self-archiving research outputs

Publishing other kinds of research outputs (data, source

code, images, posters, slides…) on the Web

Benefits

Enables others to build on top of your work

Makes your output available to others in a citable format

Your outputs receive a Digital Object Identifier

Caveats

Make sure that you have the legal right to publish these outputs

Assign a permissive license (CC-BY or CC0) and document to

maximise potential for reuse

Choose a service known to your community

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Self-archiving data

http://service.re3data.org/search

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Self-archiving research outputs

http://figshare.com

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Self-archiving research outputs

http://zenodo.org

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Self-archiving research outputs: Benefits

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Posting to Social Media

Announcing your work and interacting with your peers on

social media

Benefits

Provides a forum for scholarly communication outside of

journals and conferences

Enables quick interaction with your peers

Amplifies your message and gives you the possibility to break it

down to the main messages

Caveats

Use the right hashtags/channels/lists

Can be time-consuming

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Posting to Social Media: Blogs

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Posting to Social Media: Blogs

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Posting to Social Media: Facebook

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Posting to Social Media: Twitter

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Posting to Social Media: Research Networks

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Posting to Social Media: Mailing Lists

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Posting to Social Media: Benefits

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Altmetrics

Altmetrics: alternative metrics based on data generated in

online systems

Benefits

Assess publications quicker and on a broader scale

Consider all outputs of research, not just papers

Allow you to track the reception of your work

Caveats

As with any metrics, treat these numbers with caution

You need a unique ID (DOI, arXiv-ID, Pubmed ID) to play

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Altmetrics: Altmetric Bookmarklet

http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

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Altmetrics: Altmetric Bookmarklet

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Altmetrics: Altmetric Bookmarklet

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Altmetrics: Caveats

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Main Take-Aways

Go where your community is – your lab homepage is not

enough

Interact and collaborate with your community

Be aware of metrics and communication around your work

Don‘t just be a Me-former, be an informer

AND…

Go where your community is – your lab homepage is not

enough

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Arbeitsgruppe Open Science

Thank you for your

attention!

Peter Kraker

pkraker@know-center.at

http://twitter.com/PeterKraker

http://science20.wordpress.com