Internationalising your research without going abroad: Opening your research to the world Dutch Graduate School of Philosophy (OZSW),: PhD seminar May 24, 2013 at the Erasmus University

2. Who is reading your research?

3. Planning
• To internationalise your research think how
you want to expand and increase the impact
and scope of your publications.
• Who?
• When?
• How?
• Plan towards organising your research to be
accessible and shareable by others.

4. Opening up your research
• When publishing in traditional
journals think on sharing the pre-
print (you own it).
• Think about publishing in open access
journals (see http://www.doaj.org/)
• Think about sharing your slides when
presenting at conferences.
• Think about opening and sharing your
teaching materials via Repositories of
Open Educational resources (ROER
World Map)
What is Open Access?
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics
.php?f=1533 via @phdcomics

5. Keeping your research safe
• To avoid your content to circulate without your knowledge /
permission you need to make sure that you:
• have a researcher’s profile which identifies you as an
author
• have an academic portal where you upload your
articles, materials and presentations
• clarify the copyright / creative common license of your
work
• are consistent on the way your name is displayed

6. Sharing your research: Basics
• Create professional profiles for
work related networks only
• Keep your personal and
professional lives separate
(babies are cute but…)
• Keep a record of the content you
want to share
• Facilitate access to your research
• Allow others to share it
Me, Myself & Social Media: Some
Reflections by Nadine Muller
@Nadine_Muller

7. Creating your academic digital
identity: Basic steps
• Create your page in
academia.edu
• Create your profile in twitter
• Create your research profile in
Orcid
• Create your profile in Google
scholar
• Update your university
website

8. Why is academia.edu useful?
• Allows you to upload your:
• Papers
• Columns
• Book chapters
• Teaching materials
• Posters
• Videos of your presentations /
lectures
• Allows you to access the
analytics of your resources

9. Why is twitter is useful
• For sharing your research with a
large and international audience.
• To participate remotely at
conferences by following #s
• To access and create live events
broadcasting them on
tweetcams.
• To meet other researchers with
similar interests
• To increase the citation impact of
your papers as more people can
read them.
The role of twitter in the life cycle of a scientific
publication: Emily S Darling, David
Shiffman, Isabelle M. Côté, Joshua A Drew
https://peerj.com/preprints/16/
@Katie_PhD

10. Using Twitter: Basic rules
• Think about live-tweeting at academic conferences:
see the 10 rules by @ernestopriego
http://gu.com/p/3apnp/tw
• Be polite and thank your peers.
• Learn from others’ research
• Share others’ articles.
• Engage in conversations.
• Create communities of practice
• Share pictures and videos or your other interests (you
are a human too).

11. Using twitter: What to avoid
• Don’t feed the trolls (aka academic archenemies)
• Don’t RT all the tweets mentioning you.
• Don’t let other know what you are eating (except for
insects or very exotic foods)
• Don’t use twitter as a chat room
• Don’t re-write posts as if they were yours, always add via
or by @....
• Don’t do / say anything you wouldn’t do / say in person

12. Why is Orcid useful?
• ORCID provides you with
digital identifier that
distinguishes you from
every other researcher
ensuring that your work
is recognised

13. Why is Google Scholar useful?
• Google scholar indexes
your academic work
and allows you to trace
your citations and to
look for the impact
factor of the journals.

14. Other interesting platforms for
academics
• SlideShare: You can create
your profile and upload your
PowerPoint's and share them
in your academia.edu portal as
teaching materials.
• Figshare: a repository where
users can make all of their
research outputs available.
• PeerJ: Open Access publisher
of scholarly articles

15. Credits
• Thesis committee:
@PhDComics image by Jorge
Cham.
• Open Access video:
@PhDComics by Jorge Cham.
• My, Myself & Social Media:
Nadine Muller
@Nadine_Muller
• ROER world map @jatenas &
Leo Havemann
@LeoHavemann
• Twitter infographic: Katie Pratt
@Katie_PhD
• Live-tweeting at academic
conferences: Ernesto Priego
@ernestopriego
• http://gu.com/p/3apnp/tw
• The role of twitter in the life
cycle of a scientific
publication: Emily S
Darling, David
Shiffman, Isabelle M.
Côté, Joshua A Drew
https://peerj.com/preprints/1
6/