Getting your research known and making the most of citation tools CPD Masterclass, Wed 27th Jan Stephen Pearson & Scott Taylor, The University of Manchester Library
Workshop agenda Introduction Open Access Social media tools SciVal ORCiDs Social media tools SciVal Google Scholar Altmetrics
Manchester eScholar
Publisher makes article Open Access Immediate Open Access Key Characteristics Green: Gold: Publisher makes article Open Access Immediate Open Access May require payment of APC Author allows article to be Open Access via a repository May be subject to embargo period Free for author & reader
Manchester eScholar University’s Institutional Repository Manage your records via My eScholar ~120,000 scholarly work records ~10,000 Open Access full-text files
Open Access Repositories
So how does Manchester eScholar maximise access to your research?
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ORCiDS
What are ORCiDs? 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2306-0 0000-0002-1809-5621
www.orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1297-9725
www.orcidlive.org
Social Media Tools
…how do you create yours? Social networks… http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/files/2012/10/FebMar_F_PeerPeerNetworks.jpg
Be more visible, like Liz Brewster
Promote papers (like Melissa Terras)
Encourage collaboration, like Rick Arneil Aracon…
Exploit the wisdom of crowds… …as quality control …as a data source “Web 2.0 tools get better as more people use them” Zooniverse is an example of how projects can draw out research data from citizen scientists that can be used in formal research activity.
Find time… …like Allan Johnson
About LinkedIn
Using Twitter # @ D RT
500 million users worldwide http://www.linchpinseo.com/infographic-twitter-tweet-cheat-sheet 500 million users worldwide 400 million daily Tweets
Using academia.edu
Using ResearchGate www.researchgate.net
Using GoogleScholar
Altmetric Explorer