Social Networks for researchers

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English sessions with Jonathan McFarland

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Summary • Introduction • Social Networks for researchers • Other useful Social Networks • The 2.0 work of Bibliosalut.com team • Conclusion

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Introduction

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How does it feel to be considered one of the

country's leading researchers? HUNGRY

YES, WE CAN!

Improving the researchers’ work visibility • Connecting with other scientists around the world. • Sharing the results of their research. • Taking care of their on-line reputation. • Showing the importance of research to the world. • Overcoming geographical barriers.

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Analyzing Social Networks for researchers

ResearchGate

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Was built for scientists, by scientists, with the idea that science can do more when it is driven by collaboration.

ResearchGate features • For researchers, different disciplines are visually

represented by different colors and dimensions. • The majority of users are from biology (356,083

users, 9,183,359 papers) and medicine (427,550 users, 7,973,228 papers).

• The register is FREE and you can do it through Facebook.

• You can find information about other authors and their institutions, projects, topics, publications, job offers and you can also create research groups for working together.

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ResearchGate in Facebook

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Feelsynapsis

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Feelsynapsis offers you • Socialize your Knowledge, through your blog and

microblogging. • Create virtual labs, working online with your

partners. • Upload, find and share: papers, projects, doctorate

and thesis. • Find jobs & scientific events, related to your

scientific discipline. • Increase your research, collaborate with researchers

in a real time environment. • Disclose your research globally, directly from

Freelsynapsis to Twitter, Facebook, RSS, etc.

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HERMES

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This is a platform that creates an on-line community to share the knowledge about health sciences using on-line tools.

HERMES & Hospital Clínico San Carlos (Madrid)

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Its aim is to provide Health Care Professionals with a tool for communication and networking to facilitate the exchange of ideas and decision making in clinical practice.

HERMES & visualciencia.tv

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HERMES includes visualciencia.tv a channel with different videos with anatomic models in 3D and augmented reality.

MEDTING

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Academia.edu

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Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate world research.

Academia.edu

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Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. 2,340,273 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 1,654,988 papers and 691,244 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 5 million unique visitors a month.

Other useful Social Networks for researchers

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The 2.0 work of Bibliosalut Team

Health professionals training in 2.0 tools of Bibliosalut.com

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Curs eines 2.0 Hospital Can Misses

Facebook • Diffusion of scientific publications of the Balearic

Islands • Inform about news in: use of databases, new

publications, medical events, courses… • Improve it every day!

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@bibliosalut Twitter

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• More or less the same contents that we have in Facebook.

• We RT the most useful and interesting information for our users.

• We only follow the best

Flickr • Diffusion about courses and scientific events of our

users and us.

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Delicious

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SlideShare

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In Conclusion

Establish Your Online Presence

TH

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