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Nazlin Bhimani, Research Support & Special Collections Librarian @IOELibrary and @NazlinBhimani

UCL Institute of Education Library

Not in vain… but no gain without pain!

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What is digital literacy?

JISC defined digital literacies as those which fit someone for living, learning and working in a digital society.

More specifically, it is “the ability to locate, organise, understand, evaluate and analyse information using digital technology. It involves a working knowledge of current high-technology, and an understanding of how it can be used. Digitally literate people can communicate and work more efficiently …[and efficiently]”.

Scholarly communications

There are many stakeholders in the scholarly communications process:

Researchers Funders Publishers Indexers Reviewers Researchers / Practitioners Libraries

Traditional scholarly communications involves the researcher producing an article, book or book chapter and it being purchased by the library for its readers.

From a static web to a social & interactive web

“Social media is transforming one-way monologues into collaborative dialogues and interactions. It is democratising information and knowledge: it involves everyone, everywhere, in all-the-time conversations. It helps to weave communities, encourage greater openness and transparency, accelerate information sharing, help to access diverse perspectives, mobilise people, stimulate collaborative knowledge building and reduce the cost of participation and co-ordination of resources and actions.”

Minocha, S. and Petre, M. (2012).

Altmetrics as a gauge of impact

OECD. (2014). Does Homework Perpetuate Inequities in Education? (PISA in Focus No. 46).

Social networks

• CV services such as LinkedIn Resource sharing sites such as Flickr, Pinterest, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Vimeo and YouTube

• ID services such as Orchid and ResearcherID

• Profile services such as Google Scholar, Academia.edu and ResearchGate

• Blogging and microblogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, Twitter, Quora etc.

• Collaboration sites such as CiteULike, Mendeley and Zotero

• Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Zotero, Mendeley and Lanyrd

Six degrees of separation

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”.

Alvin Toffler quoting the psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy in Future Shock (1970), p. 211)

Digital as a way of life

JISC’s Digital capabilities for the researcher

Information, Data and Media Literacy

ICT Literacy

Digital Learning and personal/professional development

Digital Identity and wellbeing

Digital Communication, collaboration and participation

Digital Creation, Innovation, Research and Scholarship

How do we develop researchers at the IOE

1-2-1 An initial interview determines their needs A 1-2-1 session on getting them started on a

blog, twitter, collating bookmarks, referencing software etc.

Workshops (Lunch time and bespoke workshops) Mainly for the ECR and MPhil/PhD students

e.g. Referencing, RSS etc. Some in conjunction with IT for IOE e.g.

Blogging and Twitter

Online (many students are distant learners) Using LibGuides LibAnswers Library’s Blog YouTube and Lynda.com

Researching• Researching• Searching• Finding• Accessing

Evaluating• Bibliometrics and Citation Searching• Altmetrics

Managing Information• EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero• Keeping Current with Research: RSS• Evernote• Copyright & IPR

Using New Technologies• Scholarly Communications• Social Media: Twitter for Researchers• Digital Researcher to network & share content• Research Data: Sources & Software

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Getting started

Minocha, S. and Petre, M. (2012)The Handbook of Social Media for Researchers and Supervisors. Milton Keynes: OUP/VITAE INNOVATE

Veletsianos, G. (2016). Social media in academia: networked scholars. New York ; London: Routledge.

IOE LibGuides (includes a training request form on the Information Literacy IOE LibGuide)

The 30-day Impact Challenge by Stacy Konkiel brought to you by Impact Story.

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