1. Managing your scholarly presence online
Dylan Burns
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Merrill-Cazier Library

2. Managing Your Scholarly Presence Online
Profiling systems like ResearchGate, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Selected Works
Claiming your work
Google Scholar
ORCiD

3. Who am I? Dylan Burns, Digital Scholarship Librarian
Library’s expert on Scholarly Communication and Open Access
Subject Librarian for Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies

4. The Online Self
“The construction of online identities or persona is now an essential activity for the academic both from the perspective of university value and individual/career value”
Just as our resources and social lives have gone online, so too have our academic selves.
Our academic selves increasingly come on display through our departmental websites, through social media, and online scholarly profiles.
With so many options how do we choose?
Kim Barbour and David Marshall “The Academic Online: Constructing Persona Through the World Wide Web” First Monday. 2012

5. The Online Self
Just as our resources and social lives have gone online, so too have our academic selves.
Our academic selves increasingly come on display through our departmental websites, through social media, and online scholarly profiles.
With so many options how do we choose?

6. ResearchGate
Popular in the sciences, with over 12 million scholars currently signed up
Boasts100 million items uploaded (many of which have been posted illegally)
Under pressure from publishers and professional organizations over the legality of sharing PDFs

7. Academia.edu
More popular in the Humanities, same issues as ResearchGate
Switched to a premium model in the Spring 2017 leading to a large exodus of scholars from the service
Search functions and metrics no longer work without paying

8. Selected Works Connected with DigitalCommons@USU
Association with Utah State University, but completely personalized and stays in your control if you move on to another institution
Everything is vetted for copyright prior to upload
Free service provided by the Library

9. Considerations Stability/Profit/Non-Profit Indexability and reports
Copyright
Ownership of materials

10. Stability and Profits
Is the platform going to be around for a long time?
Is ownership of the platform going to change hands?
Is this organization selling my info to the highest bidder?

11. Index and Reports
Can you get reports of how many people are reading your things?

12. Identifiers and the real you.

13. Identifiers and the real you.
Not Me

14. Google Scholar
Google Scholar is the premier search engine for the discovery of academic articles
It also provides metrics such as number of citations, h-index, and i10-index to show your impact for promotion and tenure
You will need to create a ”profile” and claim your work

15. ORCiDs
ORCiD IDs are unique identifiers that allow you to claim your research as your own
Many publications are requiring ORCiD IDs in order to publish with them

16. Setting up and ORCiD

17. Questions? Dylan Burns Dylan.Burns@usu.edu 435-797-2623
me or call me!
Dylan Burns

18. Upcoming Workshops
March 21: Best Practices for Conference Presentations
rgs.usu.edu/grts