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Dawn Bennett, Stuart Clarke, Marilyn Coen & Tama Leaver

Make your work visible and build community: A workshop on social media, online communities and more

20 April 2016

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Outline

1. Discoverability & Metadata• Metadata• OrcIDs

2. Scholarly “Social” Networks• ResearchGate• Academia.edu• Google Scholar

3.Dissemination & “Impact”• Altmetrics• Twitter

4.What does Curtin already do?• Elements & eSpace

5. Questions & Discussion

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[1] Discoverability & Metadata

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Discoverability & Metadata

Effective metadata enables your research to be found! Include: Creators – name/s affiliation/s, contact details Funding agencies Descriptive keywords based on the title and abstract Relevant dates Methodology including tools used

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Open Researcher & Contributor ID

Distinguish yourself from other researchers with your own personal, persistent identifier

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Why ORCiD?

Consortium of Australian Universities as members ORCiD is open – no particular affiliation Publishers requirements Funding agencies

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Use your ORCiD identifier!

When submitting your work for publication In grant applications On conference posters Wherever you have a profile In your CV In your email signature

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Be more visible

Publicise your work! Add information to your ORCiD profile and make it public Others may not know your ORCiD identifier – add any

name variants into your public ORCiD profile

http://orcid.org

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0676-1623

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-4725

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[2] Scholarly “Social” Networks

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ResearchGate

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Google Scholar

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Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

[3] Dissemination and “Impact”

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Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

“Altmetrics” = alternative metrics(includes social media, news, etc.)

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Big Impact!

EG boyd, danah, and Kate Crawford. “Critical Questions for Big Data.” Information, Communication & Society 15.5 (2012): 662–679. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878

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Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Twitter?

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Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Twitter: Immediate Answers

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Interface with the media

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Conference hashtags (#ir14)

Conference hashtags = specific way of finding your conference on Twitter.

‘Backchannel’ during conference (or just ‘channel’).

Often now used before and after to build and maintain community around specific conferences.

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Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Publications … (preprint sharing)

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Scholarly Context …

Lupton, D. (2014). “Feeling Better Connected”: Academics’ Use of Social Media. Canberra: University of Canberra. Retrieved from http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/attachments/pdf/n-and-mrc/Feeling-Better-Connected-report-final.pdf

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Curtin University is a trademark of Curtin University of TechnologyCRICOS Provider Code 00301J

Most importantly!

Different scholarly areas and disciplines flourish in different online spaces.

There are commonalties, discussed today You should find who is talking online in your area, and

which tools they’re using: that’s your people!

(Still, you should definitely be using Twitter!)

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[4] What does Curtin already do?

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Already at Curtin…

Elements eSpace

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Discussion & Questions