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Library Workshops for Researchers
Social Media
Presented by: Josh Clark, Outreach Librarian
James Joyce Library
tel: 7167646
email: [email protected]
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
