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“An introduction to the use of Social Media in
Scholarly Communication &
Research”Education Department ‘Doc Week’ Rhodes University, South Africa.
© Fiona Still-Drewett, Rhode University Library, March 2016
Internet embedded in the everyday
How can social media increase research impact and reach?
Can social media help grow your academic career?
We live in an Interconnected World(proviso +- 40% humanity use the Internet Tim Berners-Lee BBC News 20/1/2015)
Pic from Taylor & Francis white paper, Oct 2014
Engaging with the users “It’s crucial to note that our upcoming wave of library patrons – students, colleagues, and staff – will be from this generation who are technologically sophisticated, well-connected on the social web, entrepreneurial, and oftentimes, impatient.”
Content management “We need to dive in on the teaching front – students are taking on the role as educators.”
Changing technology “It is difficult to predict where it goes. So many applications … Social media is becoming the primary means for communication.”
Taylor & Francis White Paper, Oct 2014
What is the future of Social Media ?
Web 2.0 is not a technology, it is an attitude (O’Reilly 2005)
Web 2.0 about providing users with the means for producing and distributing content
Typical Web 2.0 qualities: dynamic, participatory, engaged, interoperable, user-centred, open, collectively intelligent… (Muster & Murphie 2009)
Web 2.0
Which to use? How familiar are you with them?
Twitter : ‘now happening’ research Google Scholar : profile & citations Blogs : news, research & events Academia.edu /ResearcherID: profiles &
academic networking & collaboration Facebook : invitation only groups ~ subject
focus LinkedIn : job hunting Etc.
Social Media tools for academia
To Do: Follow high profile
researchers in your field
Follow associations, publishers, libraries…
Alert RUL to new publications
Contact your Principal Faculty Librarian
Value of: Stay up to date with
very latest research Time efficient – via
links of interest Useful in
conference settings
@RhodesResearch#RUCHERTL
“Naturally, in the digital age, it’s important for researchers to have profiles and be associated with their work. Funding, citations and lots of other good career advancing benefits flow from this”
“beneficial to showcase a broad range of output, so blogs, slide presentations, peer-reviewed publications, conference posters etc.”
Elizabeth Allen Sep 2014 From the ScienceOpen.c
om blog
Research profiles
ORCID Non-profit: independent, community driven
Google Scholar Search: Google
Researcher ID
Publisher: Thomson Reuters
Scopus Author ID Publisher: Elsevier
Mendeley Publisher: ElsevierAcademia.edu
Researcher Network: Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Researcher Network: ResearchGateFrom ScienceOpen.com blog
Research profilesWhy ORCID?From ORCID.COM
ORCID is a unique, persistent personal identifier a researcher uses as they publish, submit grants, upload datasets that connects them to information on other systems.
Ten things you need to know about ORCID right nowFrom Impactstory blog
Can make your profile public so appears in
Google Scholar search results Can track your citations Manual or auto updates Gives ‘fuller’ picture http://0-scholar.google.co.za.wam.seals.ac.za/
e.g. Prof. Sioux Mckenna, CHERTL, RU
Google Scholar Research profile Doodle for Google competition, design by Holly Pierce
Institutional research repositories
e.g. Rhodes Digital Commons(via Quick Links on RUL homepage)
provides open access to RU research output creates global visibility for research store and preserve digital assets eg theses
Open Access
Academics' online presence: a four-step guide to taking control of your visibility
(open UCT guide by Sarah Goodier and Laura Czerniewic)
Assess yourself: search for yourself and check your impact Your profile as an individual: keep all profiles up to
date Improving the availability of your outputs: self
archive & share what you can Communicating and interacting: connect & interact
online
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2652
Highly recommended guide
Author ID: select name format & stick to it! (prevents author ambiguity)
Create a Google Scholar citation profile, a Researcher ID profile, and an ORCID id
Participate in the research landscape: blogs, twitter..
Deposit all research output on your institution’s repository - Rhodes Digital Commons
Emerging Scholar essentials!
To conclude: Value of Social Media
Enhances research impact viaapplication of the research, grows citation counts, extends global reach, & facilitates
collegial collaboration
Thus helps to develop one’s academic/research career, Contributes to
institutional research output, & Grows funds for research & higher education in South
AfricaThank you for your attention !
Goodier, S. & Czerniewicz, L. (2014) Academics’ online presence [Online] 2014. OpenUCT Guide. Available from: Available at: http://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/2652 . [Accessed: 16th January 2015]
HINTON, S. & HJORTH, L. (2013) Understanding Social Media. London: Sage Publications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository http://
www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711 http://blog.scienceopen.com/category/profiles/ http://orcid.org/ http://blog.impactstory.org/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-orcid-right-now/ http://contentpro.seals.ac.za/iii/cpro/app http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/access/white-paper-social-media.pdf
RUL Science & Pharmacy Bloghttp://rulscipharm.blogspot.com/2014/09/researcher-profiles-which-one-to-use.html For Google Scholar Profile infohttp://0-scholar.google.co.za.wam.seals.ac.za/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
References & some recommended sites
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