Leveraging Academic Networks for Promotion and Tenure
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Leveraging the power of academic and professional online networks can enhance and showcase an information professional’s scholarly output. From blog posts to peer-reviewed journal articles, knowing how to best promote your work will make the process easier. The presentation will include an overview of best practices for academic networking and provide participants with recommendations to build a solid online network. Co-author: Anne Rauh
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Leveraging Academic Networks for Promotion and Tenure
- 1. Leveraging Academic Networks for Promotion and Tenure Anne E. Rauh & Linda M. Galloway ENY/ACRL May 21, 2015
- 2. Why use academic networking tools?
- 3. Scholarly communication practices • Changing… • Sites are integrating scholarly publishing and social networking • Discovery of literature is also changing • From A&I databases to Google to referrals via Social Media • Most discoverable articles are read and cited most frequently
- 5. What are academic social networking tools?
- 6. The tools Van Noorden, R. (2014). Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network. Nature, 512(7513), 126–129. http://doi.org/10.1038/512126a
- 7. Academic social networking tools Advantages • You have authority over the visibility of your materials • Promotes interaction and sharing of scholarly materials • Choose what to highlight • Variety of tools • Some sites host documents • Some sites generate DOI’s Drawbacks • Must monitor and occasionally edit profiles and publications • Must comply with copyright restrictions • Keep up with requests to connect and provide docs • Dizzying array of metrics and scores available – what do they all mean?
- 8. ResearchGate
- 9. Adding publications and other works ResearchGate allows you to generate DOI’s for works without one
- 11. academia.edu
- 12. academia.edu
- 13. academia.edu
- 14. academia.edu
- 15. academia.edu
- 17. Google Scholar Citations Keep track of the citations of your articles Public profiles appear in search results
- 18. Google Scholar Citations • Allow researchers to connect with other experts and collaborators • Self-populates scholar’s library of works & permits users to add content to their profile • If profile is public – author appears in Scholar search results • Automatically calculates & displays citation metrics • Great way to own your scholarly identity
- 19. LinkedIn
- 20. LinkedIn
- 21. LinkedIn
- 22. LinkedIn
- 23. LinkedIn
- 24. slideshare Upload, share and discover content World’s largest community for sharing: presentations documents infographics videos webinars
- 26. Selected Works
- 27. Selected Works
- 28. Selected Works
- 29. Selected Works
- 30. Selected Works
- 31. Even more tools… • ImpactStory • FigShare • Mendeley • Zotero • F1000Posters • Institutional repositories • Discipline-specific repositories
- 32. Example: Anne
- 33. Anne E. Rauh
- 34. Example: Linda
- 36. Best practices
- 37. BEFORE creating a profile 1. Begin with the most unambiguous data available 2. Choose a good, professional, yet personalized photo for the profile image 3. Make sure all the scholarly outputs you want discovered are discoverable using the best tools available
- 38. BEFORE creating a profile 4. Make your profile public after you have uploaded or linked to all your research products 5. Use the social networking tools in your profile to receive notices and alerts 6. Regularly monitor your profile to check for additions, errors, and missing data Galloway, L.M. & Rauh, A.E. (2014). Using Google Scholar Citations to Profile Scholars' Work. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. http://DOI:10.5062/F4319SWZ
- 39. Your turn!
- 40. Academic social networks • Permit librarian scholars to connect with peers, experts and collaborators • Promote your scholarship and the work of your library • Provide a measure of control over your scholarly persona • Calculate and displays various scholarly and community metrics • Are free, or free to use by institutional subscribers • Allow you to own your scholarly identity
- 41. Questions? Anne E. Rauh & Linda M. Galloway ENY/ACRL May 21, 2015
Editor's Notes
- Each introduce ourselves
- LINDA Five to ten minute introduction Leverage tools Enhance and show case scholarly Combine communication and dissemination for academics Annie and I have both recently been promoted, and our promotion portfolios were similar to a tenure packet. We began investigating and using these tools both for our own P&T packets, and to provide guidance to our faculty constituents. It is important in academia today to maintain a presence on social media sites. Who: Spaces for to describe themselves – author/creator has control over profile What: Online spaces to showcase and promote the work you wish to showcase and promote Connect: Allows librarians and other academics to connect with colleagues all over the world. You can influence how easily found your articles and research products are by making them more discoverable via academic social networking tools.
- LINDA Changing – no longer wait for a journal (print or e) to be published Patterns of scholarly discovery have changed with researchers reading and citing the most easily found articles. Content found via newer channels Google’s centrality is yielding ground to Facebook, Twitter, Mendeley, and various other social media services. If the brand is everything, tell it to your colleague who is suggesting you look at an article whose provenance is unknown. You trust that colleague and take a look. In effect, that trust has made your colleague into a brand, which serves as brands always have, as a tool for discovery.
- LINDA Information is available online about virtually everyone. Don’t be this gal…with old and out of date data Example of poor online representation We want to help you curate your online presence Current, reflects how you want to be seen People will google you! Don’t let this be what comes up
- ANNIE
- ANNIE Here are some of the most common academic social networking tools – we will be talking about a few of them today.
- Annie – advantages Linda – drawbacks
- LINDA Founded in 2008 by physicians Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sören Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher, RG reports 6 Million users, with 1/3 visiting monthly. Growing quite quickly (in 2014 reported 4.5 Million members). Initially funded by venture capital, and in 2013 secured $35M from investors including Bill Gates. User provided data – can connect to Linkedin or Facebook, but will send your contacts invites to RG
- LINDA Adding publications is not straightforward – the search functionality searches only within the RG community of uploaded documents. I needed to add most document manually. Can add publications using reference manager tools (BibTeX, Endnote or RIS files) Great deal of user input and intervention required to use this tool effectively.
- LINDA Great deal of user input and intervention required to use this tool effectively Must join ResearchGate to read and download papers. Same issue as other tools – may not have the copyright permissions to upload content to the site.
- ANNIE Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. 21,468,921 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 5,791,857 papers and 1,549,406 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 36 million unique visitors a month.
- ANNIE Happy users! Librarian faculty member making case for promotion, as we all know, demonstrating that we create scholarship is important No matter our discipline, demonstrating impact is important
- ANNIE Large user group at syracuse
- ANNIE According to a study authored by six employees of Academia.edu and two members of Polynumeral, a data consultancy company. Results are questionable, Scholarly Kitchen blog had a post just yesterday about the control group not being a true control group. Items in the control group were not easily discoverable anywhere. From the data, one cannot tell if posting to acaddemia.edu makes a difference but it is clear that having your work freely available and discoverable SOMEWHERE does make a difference.
- ANNIE Take care and understand what you can and cannot post! For more information, see my blog post on the topic.
- LINDA\ Harnessing the power of GS as a academic profiling service. Within the profile you can see who is citing you articles and view your citations as a graph over time. There are also metrics available: number of citations, H-index and i10 index. And you can choose whether to make your profile public or keep it private (default) The h-index is “the number of a scholar’s papers, h, that have been cited at least h times by other publications” The i10-index is a metric created by Google and is the number of articles with more than ten citations (Conner 2011). Citations metric is the total number of citations to all articles by the individual author profiled.
- Easy to set up and use… However, as with all tools, choose your descriptive keywords carefully (Librarian in title) Add articles easily and citation metrics are calculated and updated automatically Found 10 SUNY librarians – 3 SU librarians Likely more; must take care to accurately describe your profil
- LINDA Searches scholarly literature from one convenient place Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications Locate the complete document through your library or on the web Keep up with recent developments in any area of research Check who's citing your publications, create a public author profile Can add, delete, merge and modify citations in your profile.
- ANNIE What is LinkedIn? Business oriented social networking As of June 2013, LinkedIn reports more than 259 million acquired users in more than 200 countries and territories. Just like Facebook, and other social networking, you create connections that represent real-world professional relationships. Once you build your network, you use your connections, and your connections’ connections, to seek employment opportunities, seek candidates for job openings, seek collaborators, seek volunteers, seek consultants, high light achievements, notify your connections of job changes, etc. LinkedIn also includes groups. Groups can be purely interest groups like STEM publishing, can represent a real life organization UW Alumni, or can be used for meeting and collaborating (library advisory board, we meet four times per year and use LinkedIn for the rest of our work).
- ANNIE This is what you see when you search for my LinkedIn profile You can control how much can be seen by nonmembers and those not connected to you. You can enter a bio, and job experience.
- ANNIE Volunteer experience, language skills, education
- ANNIE Organizations, awards, and groups
- ANNIE Connections – show who you know Those connections can endorse your skills
- LINDA Allows users to upload and share presentations, infographics, docs, videos, pdf and webinars. Great way to get other perspectives when planning instruction or presentations. Free, easy to use. I upload class presentations there and then send link to students. Authors can permit downloads of presentations, or just allow views Founded in 2006, acquired by Linkedin in 2012. 60million unique visitors/month, among the top 120 most visited websites in the world! Can Move example to CASE STUDY
- Helps demonstrate knowledge of and influence in a field Content is embeddable in blogs, websites and easily shareable on other social media platforms. Provides reusable material for study and instruction This site hosts content – from slideshows, to posters (infographics) more. Can embed shows or link to content hosted on slideshare.
- ANNIE
- ANNIE Selected works can be organized how ever you want, Mine is organized by publication type (Articles, book chpaters, posters, presentations, blog posts)
- ANNIE You can also view by self assigned subjects (citation metrics, social media, citation management, outreach)
- ANNIE In addition to uploading papers and presentations, you can also link to blog posts (or anything else that lives elsewhere). Blog posts, newsletter columns, and other more informal writing can be hard to highlight
- ANNIE Selected works provide metrics on number of downloads You can also see referring websites and search terms that brought readers to your site, which is similar to most of the tools
- ANNIE
- ANNIE (5 mins)
- LinkedIn and Selected Works are the two tools that I focus on LinkedIn: professional connections outside academia, many of us also have professional connections with publishers, IT, other librarians, etc. - used widely outside of academia Free lancing Selected works: where I chose to host my work (slides, post prints, pdfs, etc.)
- Use my Google Scholar profile for more scholarly works such as articles, conference papers. Good way for me to be visible, professional and on the same playing field as my constituents. Use slideshare for materials I wish to share with students, faculty and my librarian colleagues. A great way to share instructional materials.
- Use my Google Scholar profile for more scholarly works such as articles, conference papers. This also gives me more credibility with our faculty constituents, Good way for me to be visible, professional and on the same playing field as my constituents. Use slideshare for materials I wish to share with students, faculty and my librarian colleagues. A great way to share instructional materials AND to demonstrate that I am willing to share Instructional materials.
- LINDA
- LINDA Accurate attribution and discovery of research products is the most important consideration for all authors. #1 – mention ORCID Remember, some sites host content, and others do not. Your materials have to “live” somewhere in order to be discovered.
- LINDA END by 30 minutes
- ANNIE – 10 MINUTES WORK WITH YOUR NEIGHBOR, TAKE INVENTORY OF YOUR WORK AND DISCUSS THE BEST TOOLS TO REPRESENT IT
- LINDA
- 15 ANNIE will work on worksheet