Digital scholarship: building an online scholarly presence

Alison McNabAcademic Librarian (Research Support)

University of Huddersfield

@AlisonMcNab / @hudlib

Overview

Context:•Changes in scholarly publishing in the digital age•Scholarship of digital content

MmIT 2016 workshop focus:•Creating and curating an online scholarly presence•Exploring tools•Case studies•Further reading

Scholarship is changing…

Can we all be digital scholars?

The opportunities of “open”– Open Access– Open Science– Open Data– Open Software– Open Educational

Resources / MOOCs

• Access to Research• British Library • CORE

The non-affiliated researcher

Finding Open Access research

Open Access journals•Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/subjects OpenGrey•Links to OA “grey literature” produced in Europe (includes reports, dissertations, conference papers, and official publications) http://www.opengrey.eu/ OAIster•30M records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors worldwide http://oaister.worldcat.org/

Open Access / Open Data Buttons •https://openaccessbutton.org/ / https://opendatabutton.org/

Jisc (2015) Developing students' digital literacy

Jisc (2015) Developing students' digital literacy

Digital research and scholarship

“Digital research and scholarship is the capacity to collect and analyse research data using digital methods. At higher levels to discover, develop and share new ideas using digital tools; to undertake open scholarship; to design new research questions and programmes around digital issues / methods; to develop new digital tools / processes; to evaluate impacts of digital interventions”.

Jisc (2015) https://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2015/06/1.-Digital-capabilities-6-elements.pdf

Building an online scholarly presence6 ways to boost citations

• Identify yourself• Collaborate• Reach your audience• Be discoverable• Be accessible• Disseminate

Building an online scholarly presence6 questions to ask

• Identify yourself• Collaborate• Reach your audience• Be discoverable• Be accessible• Disseminate

• Who am I?• Who do I work with?• Who / where are my “audience”?• Metadata matters• Open it up!• Which platforms should I work

with?

Making an impactTools to boost citations

• Who am I?• Who do I work with?• Who / where are my

“audience”?• Metadata matters• Open it up!• Which platforms should I

work with?

“…i“…if you do not have a clear online presence, you are allowing Google, Yahoo, and Bing to create your identity for you”f you do not have a clear online

Marshall, K. (2015). How to maintain your digital identity as an academic

Over to you…..

Which online scholarly spaces and / or social media tools do you use?

Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Innovations in Scholarly Communication survey – dashboard http://dashboard101innovations.silk.co/

Kramer B & Bosman J. (2016) Innovations in scholarly communication - global survey on research tool usage F1000Research 5:692 doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8414.1

6 research workflow phases

From: Innovations in Scholarly Communication survey

Typical workflow examples

A checklist for your digital identity

Piirus (2015) Digital Identity Health Check for Academics https://blog.piirus.ac.uk/2015/08/12/health-check-your-digital-identity/ •Create profiles on sites that rank highly in search results•Manage your name by getting an ORCiD identifier•Make your web addresses easy to find•Create a single home for your online presence•Link your online profiles together•Write guest posts on other people’s blogs to gain more visibility•Decide if you will have a personal and/or professional digital presence•Use appropriate images online•Maximise the potential of your profile biographies to make better connections•Measure your research impact online

Raise the profile of your research

Free ebook: compiled from the Impact Challenge blog series

•Upgrade your professional visibility by conquering social media•Boost your readership and citations by getting your work online•Stay on top of your field’s latest developments with automated alerts•Make key connections with colleagues•Manage tracking and reporting on your own impactshttp://blog.impactstory.org/research-impact-challenge-ebook/

The A to Z of social media for academia

http://andymiah.net/a-to-z-of-social-media/

Measuring your impact

Resources on metrics•The Bibliomagician: comment & practical guidance from the LIS-Bibliometrics community•Librarian Quick reference cards for research impact metrics (Jenny Delasalle)•Altmetrics: A new role for library and information professionals (Video: Andy Tattersall)•Tools to analyse social media metrics (Mike Thelwall)•How to track the impact of research data with metrics (DCC)

Books

• Bastow, S., Tinkler, J., & Dunleavey, P. (2014). The Impact of the Social Sciences: How academics and their research make a difference. London: Sage.

• Borgman, C. (2016). Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the networked world. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

• Tattersall, A. (2016). Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians, researchers and academics. London: Facet Publishing.

• Veletsianos, G. (2016). Social Media in Academia: Networked scholars. Abingdon: Routledge.

• Weller, M. (2011). The Digital Scholar: how technology is transforming scholarly practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

References

• Jisc (2015) Digital student: Exploring students expectations and experiences of using technology in HE, FE and skills https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/digital-student

• OU Institute of Educational Technology Digital Scholarship project (2009-2011)• http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/research-innovation/research-projects/digital-scholarship • The Digital Scholar: How technology is transforming scholarly practice (2015)

https://www.walesdtc.ac.uk/onlinematerials/the-digital-scholar-how-technology-is-transforming-scholarly-practice/

• Patrick Dunleavy (2015) The digital scholar and the academic job market: including hyperlinks in your CV can make a big difference. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/06/15/the-digital-scholar-and-the-academic-job-market/

• Living Bibliography for The Impact of the Social Sciences: How academics and their work make a difference http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/living-bibliography-impact-of-social-sciences-research-book/

• Wolff, C., Rod, A. B., & Schonfeld, R. C. (2016). UK Survey of Academics 2015: Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK. http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.282736

Any questions?