This document discusses using academic networking sites to connect researchers and advance research. It describes how these sites can be used as a repository to upload and share articles, data, and working papers. The sites also allow connections between researchers based on shared research interests, affiliations, and other variables. Analytics on these sites can track reads, uploads, and altmetric data. The document also provides examples of specific academic networking sites and tools like Mendeley, Figshare, and Endnote that can be used to organize work and integrate it within academic networks. It suggests sharing research beyond formal papers by writing blogs, finding Twitter communities, making videos, and using other sharing platforms.

2. Provide infrastructure for other researcher
services. Make correct connections, provide
name disambiguation – name “authority” in
the library world

4. “Social networking for academics” – focus is on connecting
researchers and advancing research.
 Repository – place to upload and share articles, data,
working papers
 Connections – social network based on research
interests, affiliations, geography, other variables
 Analytics – tracking for reads, uploads, altmetric data,
connections to other services

5. Useful for gathering, storing, organizing,
integrating your work into the Networking
sites. Use DOI or ISBN to generate citation.
 Endnote - UWSP supported, integrates with
WOS and other tools
 Figshare – variety of formats, products
 Mendeley – also provides ID service

6. Sharing beyond the formal paper
 Create a website
 Write a blog
 Find aTwitter community
 Explore Facebook
 Make a video
Share locally
 Press releases
 Library Scholarship displays/events

7.  Presentations on Slideshare
 Software on Github
 Open Access repositories

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