OpenUCT Initiative Sarah Goodier OpenUCT Law Seminar 14 October 2014 Online Presence and You as a Digital Scholar

OpenUCT Initiative THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE AND THE DIGITAL SCHOLAR

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OpenUCT Initiative Rise of the digital scholar Slide from Martin Weller’s presentation “Open scholarship, social media & libraries ”:

OpenUCT Initiative Your online presence University profile page

OpenUCT Initiative Do you know how you appear online? ?

OpenUCT Initiative Consider What do you want your digital footprint to look like? What kind of online presence do you want? What do you have time to manage effectively? Any other considerations? What do I want? What can I realistically achieve?

OpenUCT Initiative Towards a professional online presence: From: Academics’ online presence - A four-step guide to taking control of your visibility:

OpenUCT Initiative THE RESEARCH CYCLE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

OpenUCT Initiative From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”:

OpenUCT Initiative Use the online space to support your research and teaching activities: From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”:

OpenUCT Initiative Digital, networked and open scholarship From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”:

OpenUCT Initiative TOOLS TO GET YOU STARTED

OpenUCT Initiative To profile yourself and your work: Google Scholar:

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To profile yourself and your work: Academia.edu:

OpenUCT Initiative To make your work more accessible: Publish in Open Access Journals: – Improving the availability of your outputs Is my research making an impact? Can it be found online? Click here for full text access!

OpenUCT Initiative Publish in open access journals (as of 12 Oct 2014)

OpenUCT Initiative Publish in open access journals

OpenUCT Initiative To make your work more accessible: Archive in a repository: – Improving the availability of your outputs Is my research making an impact? Can it be found online? Click here for full text access!

OpenUCT Initiative Archive in a repository

OpenUCT Initiative Archive in a repository

OpenUCT Initiative Archive in a repository

OpenUCT Initiative To expand your engagement broadly Blog:

OpenUCT Initiative To expand your engagement broadly Blog:

OpenUCT Initiative To expand your engagement broadly Twitter:

OpenUCT Initiative To expand your engagement broadly Twitter: 9/02/academic-tweeters-your-suggestions-in-full/

OpenUCT Initiative To expand your engagement broadly Twitter:

OpenUCT Initiative Your Online Presence Building into a digital (networked) you! What is your purpose in having/ expanding your online presence? What is your strategy to achieve an appropriate online presence?

OpenUCT Initiative Thank you For more resources: – Try the OpenUCT Delicious bookmarks tagged ‘onlinepresence’: – Check out OpenUCT’s Online Presence guide for academics: guidelines-v2 guidelines-v2 All screenshots used purely for illustrative purposes Some slides used and/or adapted from: Laura Czerniewicz’s presentation ‘Academics' online presence - assessing & shaping visibility 2012’: Excluding images, screenshots and logos and/or unless otherwise indicated on content

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