The document discusses the use of academic social networking to enhance research visibility and the trend of academics adopting social media for scholarly communication. It highlights various platforms like Mendeley, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and general social media tools, along with concerns regarding article deposition and the effectiveness of these networks. The document also addresses the evolution of open access publishing and the increasing demand for rapid communication among researchers.

2. Using Academic Social
Networking to increase
your Research visibility

3. Using Academic Social Networking to
increase your Research visibility
 Are academics buying into Social Media Use? Are you?
 Method of Scholarly communication
 Peers & a wider audience
 Includes unpublished research
 Open Access Resource
 Sharing Research

4. Networking Sites
 Academic Social Networking Sites:
 Mendeley (Reference manager & sharing papers)
 Academia.edu (11m Uuers, part of Open Science & Open Access movement)
 Research Gate (2.6m users in 2013), Mainly Science includes raw data and
unsuccessful experiments)
 Microsoft Academic Search (Search engine for Academic papers &
literature)(not currently being updated)
 CiteULike (save & share citations to academic papers)
 More general Social Media:
 Facebook
 Twitter
 LinkedIn
 Slideshare
 Blogs (Wordpress, Blogger)
 You Tube

14. Burden of depositing articles?
 Are there too many providers?
 Are they fit for purpose?
 What version of your article do you deposit? Check with
your publisher !
 Currently also moving towards RDM (Research Data
Management) & developing DMP’s (Data Management
Plans)
 “In the EU Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation Horizon 2020, a limited pilot action on open
access to research data will be implemented”
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/rdm/dmp

15. Open Access
 “Everything evolves even publishing”: *Jason Hoyt
(PeerJ) https://peerj.com/
 Open access has defined the last decade. Currently 10%
Open Access, expects 50% by 2020 and further increases
beyond this.
 Peer Networks being purchased e.g. Elsevier bought
Mendeley for $75m, Academia.edu and Research Gate
also purchased
 Speed of communication is now expected by academics
 Rise of the PrePrint
 Open everything in the future?
*UKSG Conference “Untying the knots and joining the dots: researchers’ needs from
funding to outputs and beyond” Nov. 2014

16. Finish
 Questions?
 Research Support Librarian Blog
 http://ciarnthelibrarian.blogspot.ie/