Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?

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Twitter: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/or12/#or2012 Open Repositories 2012: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? Brian Kelly Jenny Delasalle UKOLN Academic Services Manager (Research) University of Bath University of Warwick Email: Email: J.Delasalle@warwick.ac.uk b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Blog: Blog: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/ http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ libresearch Twitter: @briankelly Twitter: @JennyDelasalle UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a A centre of expertise in digital information management Creativewww.ukoln.ac.uk 2.0 Commons Attribution licence (but note caveat)

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The Evidence The evidence: • 16 of the top 20 departmental papers • Most downloads of all authors Possible reasons: • Quality of the papers • Promotion of the papers (but why are old papers popular?) • Formats of the papers (possibility) • Incoming links from LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ... The benefits: • Citations (4 papers with 40-80 citations)5 • Impact on practitioners A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk

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What Next? Join the debate at http://bit.ly/or12-136/ A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk7

Further Information Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? B. Kelly & J. Delasalle, OR 2012, 9-13 July 2012, Edinburgh See: • Repository copy at http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30227/ • Blog post about this paper on UK Web Focus blog at http://bit.ly/or12-136 A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk8

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