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Using Academic Social Networking to increase your Research visibility
Using Academic Social Networking to increase your Research visibility
Are academics buying into Social Media Use? Are you?
Method of Scholarly communication Peers & a wider audience
Includes unpublished research
Open Access Resource
Sharing Research
Networking Sites
Academic Social Networking Sites: Mendeley (Reference manager & sharing papers)
Academia.edu (11m Uuers, part of Open Science & Open Access movement)
Research Gate (2.6m users in 2013), Mainly Science includes raw data and unsuccessful experiments)
Microsoft Academic Search (Search engine for Academic papers & literature)(not currently being updated)
CiteULike (save & share citations to academic papers)
More general Social Media: Facebook
Slideshare
Blogs (Wordpress, Blogger)
You Tube
Burden of depositing articles?
Are there too many providers?
Are they fit for purpose?
What version of your article do you deposit? Check with your publisher !
Currently also moving towards RDM (Research Data Management) & developing DMP’s (Data Management Plans) “In the EU Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation Horizon 2020, a limited pilot action on open access to research data will be implemented” http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/rdm/dmp
Open Access
“Everything evolves even publishing”: *Jason Hoyt (PeerJ) https://peerj.com/ Open access has defined the last decade. Currently 10%
Open Access, expects 50% by 2020 and further increases beyond this.
Peer Networks being purchased e.g. Elsevier bought Mendeley for $75m, Academia.edu and Research Gate also purchased
Speed of communication is now expected by academics Rise of the PrePrint
Open everything in the future?
*UKSG Conference “Untying the knots and joining the dots: researchers’ needs from funding to outputs and beyond” Nov. 2014
Finish
Questions?
Research Support Librarian Blog
http://ciarnthelibrarian.blogspot.ie/
