1. Collaboration &
Research Sharing Tools
What do they do, what do they mean for your career, and who’s
responsible?
Rebecca Kuglitsch
Interdisciplinary Science Librarian
CU Boulder
1/14/2013

2. The Facebooks of Science?
• ResearchGate
• Academia.edu
• Mendeley
• VIVO
– Maybe the LinkedIn of science?

3. Too much social in your network?
• Limit emails & manage privacy using
ResearchGate:
http://screencast.com/t/vX7H8arTVh
• Limit emails & manage privacy using
Academia.edu:
http://screencast.com/t/7XuAfjZYDj2n

4. All of these tools can…
• Provide some information about when and
how your work is used by others
• Help you develop networks of colleagues
•Share content

5. Which is right for you?
• Academia.edu and/or ResearchGate if you want a
profile right now.
– Especially good for grad students
• Mendeley if you want a collaboration and citation
tool, too.
• VIVO & our institutional repository if you want
the university to do the work
– Still under development, but will be very low effort &
high impact for faculty users.

6. More about VIVO
• Data for your profile is vetted by you when
you do your FRPA, so no extra work
• Will eventually be a way to highlight your CV
& publications
• And will connect with our institutional
repository and other open access sources

7. VIVO will look something like this:
https://scholars.duke.edu/

8. Why use services that share your
publications?
• Makes your publications more readily
available, which
– May increase their citation rate
– Makes them available to non-academics
– Makes them available to scholars from institutions
that may not be able to afford the publications

9. But, in December 2013…

10. Avoid this by knowing…
• What publications you are allowed to share
• How you can legally & ethically share them
• And what might happen if you inadvertently
share too much

11. Copyright & author’s rights
• Copyright is yours at the moment you commit
something to writing.
• But typically, when you publish in a toll-access
journal or write a book, you sign over your
copyright to the publisher.
• You wrote it.
• But you can’t necessarily share it.

12. So, what are your author’s rights?
• Check your author’s agreement if you still
have it.
• Check SHERPA/RoMEO for current default
rights.
– Watch a screencast demonstrating this
• Check with your publisher.

13. Share your work safely
• Choose an open access journal (Gold OA)
– Library fund to cover fees
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/oa/oafund.htm
• Self-archive (Green OA)
– SPARC author addendum
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum-2007
– Archive whatever you’re allowed to, however
you’re allowed
– SHERPA/RoMEO will help you figure this out

14. Terminology
• Preprints
– Typically refers to a pre-peer-review draft
• Postprints
– Typically refers to a draft that has been through
peer review, but is often not the publisher’s PDF

15. What if you post too much?
(This is not legal advice!)
• Probably nothing.
• But you might receive a takedown notice, and
need to take your article down.
• What if someone else distributes your work?
• They might receive a takedown notice, and
need to take your article down.

16. Resources
• Shelly or Rebecca (Rebecca.kuglitsch@colorado.edu) are happy to
help with questions
• CU Library Open Access fund
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/oa/oafu
nd.htm
• SPARC author addendum
http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum-2007
• SHERPA/RoMEO
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo
• How to look up a journal’s policy using SHERPA/RoMEO
http://screencast.com/t/QJabx9xaFA
• Set your privacy controls and limit email for Academia.edu
http://screencast.com/t/7XuAfjZYDj2n
• ResearchGate
http://screencast.com/t/vX7H8arTVh