This document discusses building an online scholarly presence and digital scholarship. It provides an overview of changes in scholarly publishing and opportunities for open access, open science, and digital research. It discusses tools for finding open access research and measuring research impact. The document also provides guidance on creating an online identity through profiles, collaborations, and disseminating work. Tips are offered on boosting citations and visibility through social media and other online platforms. Throughout, various resources and case studies are referenced to illustrate best practices in digital scholarship.

1. Digital scholarship: building an
online scholarly presence
Alison McNab
Academic Librarian (Research Support)
University of Huddersfield
@AlisonMcNab / @hudlib

2. Overview
Context:
•Changes in scholarly publishing in the digital age
•Scholarship of digital content
MmIT 2016 workshop focus:
•Creating and curating an online scholarly presence
•Exploring tools
•Case studies
•Further reading

3. Scholarship is changing…

4. Can we all be digital scholars?
The opportunities of “open”
– Open Access
– Open Science
– Open Data
– Open Software
– Open Educational
Resources / MOOCs
• Access to Research
• British Library
• CORE
The non-affiliated researcher

5. Finding Open Access research
Open Access journals
•Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/subjects
OpenGrey
•Links to OA “grey literature” produced in Europe (includes reports,
dissertations, conference papers, and official publications) http
://www.opengrey.eu/
OAIster
•30M records representing digital resources from more than 1,500
contributors worldwide http://oaister.worldcat.org/
Open Access / Open Data Buttons
•https://openaccessbutton.org/ / https://opendatabutton.org/

6. Jisc (2015)
Developing students' digital literacy

7. Jisc (2015)
Developing students' digital literacy

8. Digital research and scholarship
“Digital research and scholarship is the capacity to
collect and analyse research data using digital
methods. At higher levels to discover, develop and
share new ideas using digital tools; to undertake open
scholarship; to design new research questions and
programmes around digital issues / methods; to
develop new digital tools / processes; to evaluate
impacts of digital interventions”.
Jisc (2015)
https://digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2015/06/1.-Digital-capabilities-6-elements.pdf

9. Building an online scholarly presence
6 ways to boost citations
• Identify yourself
• Collaborate
• Reach your audience
• Be discoverable
• Be accessible
• Disseminate

10. Building an online scholarly presence
6 questions to ask
• Identify yourself
• Collaborate
• Reach your audience
• Be discoverable
• Be accessible
• Disseminate
• Who am I?
• Who do I work with?
• Who / where are my “audience”?
• Metadata matters
• Open it up!
• Which platforms should I work
with?

11. Making an impact
Tools to boost citations
• Who am I?
• Who do I work with?
• Who / where are my
“audience”?
• Metadata matters
• Open it up!
• Which platforms should I
work with?

12. “…i“…if you do not have a clear online
presence, you are allowing Google,
Yahoo, and Bing to create your identity for
you”f you do not have a clear online
Marshall, K. (2015).
How to maintain your digital identity as an academic

13. Over to you…..
Which online scholarly spaces and / or
social media tools do you use?

14. Innovations in Scholarly Communication
Innovations in Scholarly Communication
survey – dashboard
http://dashboard101innovations.silk.co
/
Kramer B & Bosman J. (2016) Innovations in
scholarly communication - global survey
on research tool usage F1000Research
5:692 doi:
10.12688/f1000research.8414.1

15. 6 research workflow phases
From: Innovations in Scholarly Communication survey

16. Typical workflow examples

17. A checklist for your digital identity
Piirus (2015) Digital Identity Health Check for Academics
https://blog.piirus.ac.uk/2015/08/12/health-check-your-digital-identity/
•Create profiles on sites that rank highly in search results
•Manage your name by getting an ORCiD identifier
•Make your web addresses easy to find
•Create a single home for your online presence
•Link your online profiles together
•Write guest posts on other people’s blogs to gain more visibility
•Decide if you will have a personal and/or professional digital presence
•Use appropriate images online
•Maximise the potential of your profile biographies to make better connections
•Measure your research impact online

18. Raise the profile of your research
Free ebook: compiled from the Impact
Challenge blog series
•Upgrade your professional visibility by
conquering social media
•Boost your readership and citations by
getting your work online
•Stay on top of your field’s latest
developments with automated alerts
•Make key connections with colleagues
•Manage tracking and reporting on your own
impacts
http://blog.impactstory.org/research-impact-challenge-ebook/

19. The A to Z of social media for academia
http://andymiah.net/a-to-z-of-social-media/

20. Measuring your impact
Resources on metrics
•The Bibliomagician: comment & practical guidance from the LIS-
Bibliometrics community
•Librarian Quick reference cards for research impact metrics (Jenny
Delasalle)
•Altmetrics: A new role for library and information professionals
(Video: Andy Tattersall)
•Tools to analyse social media metrics (Mike Thelwall)
•How to track the impact of research data with metrics (DCC)

21. Books
• Bastow, S., Tinkler, J., & Dunleavey, P. (2014). The Impact of the
Social Sciences: How academics and their research make a
difference. London: Sage.
• Borgman, C. (2016). Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship
in the networked world. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
• Tattersall, A. (2016). Altmetrics: A practical guide for librarians,
researchers and academics. London: Facet Publishing.
• Veletsianos, G. (2016). Social Media in Academia: Networked
scholars. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Weller, M. (2011). The Digital Scholar: how technology is
transforming scholarly practice. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

22. References
• Jisc (2015) Digital student: Exploring students expectations and experiences of using technology in
HE, FE and skills https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/digital-student
• OU Institute of Educational Technology Digital Scholarship project (2009-2011)
• http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/research-innovation/research-projects/digital-scholarship
• The Digital Scholar: How technology is transforming scholarly practice (2015)
https://www.walesdtc.ac.uk/onlinematerials/the-digital-scholar-how-technology-is-transforming-
scholarly-practice/
• Patrick Dunleavy (2015) The digital scholar and the academic job market: including hyperlinks in
your CV can make a big difference. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/06/15/the-
digital-scholar-and-the-academic-job-market/
• Living Bibliography for The Impact of the Social Sciences: How academics and their work make a
difference http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/living-bibliography-impact-of-social-
sciences-research-book/
• Wolff, C., Rod, A. B., & Schonfeld, R. C. (2016). UK Survey of Academics 2015: Ithaka S+R | Jisc |
RLUK. http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.282736

23. Any questions?