Who is reading your research?

Planning

• To internationalise your research think how you want to expand and increase the impact and scope of your publications.• Who?• When?• How?

• Plan towards organising your research to be accessible and shareable by others.

Opening up your research • When publishing in traditional

journals think on sharing the pre-print (you own it).

• Think about publishing in open access journals (see http://www.doaj.org/)

• Think about sharing your slides when presenting at conferences.

• Think about opening and sharing your teaching materials via Repositories of Open Educational resources (ROER World Map)

What is Open Access? http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1533 via @phdcomics

Keeping your research safe

• To avoid your content to circulate without your knowledge / permission you need to make sure that you:• have a researcher’s profile which identifies you as an

author• have an academic portal where you upload your articles,

materials and presentations • clarify the copyright / creative common license of your

work • are consistent on the way your name is displayed

Sharing your research: Basics• Create professional profiles for

work related networks only• Keep your personal and

professional lives separate (babies are cute but…)

• Keep a record of the content you want to share

• Facilitate access to your research• Allow others to share it

Me, Myself & Social Media: Some Reflections by Nadine Muller @Nadine_Muller

Creating your academic digital identity: Basic steps

• Create your page in academia.edu

• Create your profile in twitter• Create your research profile in

Orcid• Create your profile in Google

scholar• Update your university

website

Why is academia.edu useful?

• Allows you to upload your: • Papers• Columns• Book chapters• Teaching materials• Posters• Videos of your presentations /

lectures

• Allows you to access the analytics of your resources

Why is twitter is useful• For sharing your research with a

large and international audience.• To participate remotely at

conferences by following #s• To access and create live events

broadcasting them on tweetcams.

• To meet other researchers with similar interests

• To increase the citation impact of your papers as more people can read them.

The role of twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication: Emily S Darling, David Shiffman, Isabelle M. Côté, Joshua A Drew https://peerj.com/preprints/16/

@Katie_PhD

Using Twitter: Basic rules• Think about live-tweeting at academic conferences:

see the 10 rules by @ernestopriego http://gu.com/p/3apnp/tw

• Be polite and thank your peers.• Learn from others’ research• Share others’ articles. • Engage in conversations.• Create communities of practice • Share pictures and videos or your other interests (you

are a human too).

Using twitter: What to avoid

• Don’t feed the trolls (aka academic archenemies)• Don’t RT all the tweets mentioning you.• Don’t let other know what you are eating (except for

insects or very exotic foods)• Don’t use twitter as a chat room• Don’t re-write posts as if they were yours, always add via

or by @....• Don’t do / say anything you wouldn’t do / say in person

Why is Orcid useful?

• ORCID provides you with digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher ensuring that your work is recognised

Why is Google Scholar useful?

• Google scholar indexes your academic work and allows you to trace your citations and to look for the impact factor of the journals.

Other interesting platforms for academics

• SlideShare: You can create your profile and upload your PowerPoint's and share them in your academia.edu portal as teaching materials.

• Figshare: a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available.

• PeerJ: Open Access publisher of scholarly articles

Credits

• Thesis committee: @PhDComics image by Jorge Cham.

• Open Access video: @PhDComics by Jorge Cham.

• My, Myself & Social Media: Nadine Muller @Nadine_Muller

• ROER world map @jatenas & Leo Havemann @LeoHavemann

• Twitter infographic: Katie Pratt @Katie_PhD

• Live-tweeting at academic conferences: Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego

• http://gu.com/p/3apnp/tw • The role of twitter in the life

cycle of a scientific publication: Emily S Darling, David Shiffman, Isabelle M. Côté, Joshua A Drew https://peerj.com/preprints/16/