Strategies to improve discoverability of your research, publicize your scholarship to relevant stakeholders, take part in scholarly conversations using social media, and measure the impact of individual publications. This interactive workshop was presented to Duquesne University faculty.

1. Raising Your Scholarly
Profile
David Nolfi, Rob Behary, Allison Brungard, & Kelley Cotter
Gumberg Library

2. Raise your scholarly profile and
increase the impact of your work by:
• Identifying strategies to improve the discoverability of
research
• Publicizing scholarship to relevant stakeholders
• Taking part in scholarly conversations using social media
• Measuring the impact of individual publications

3. Workshop Plan
• Brief Presentation
• Small Group Exercise
• Whole Group Discussion
• Wrap Up & Evaluation

4. Why should you try to raise
your scholarly profile?
David Nolfi

5. Is it just blowing your own horn?
• Finding & integrating past
works is a key part of
scholarship
• Improving the likelihood
scholarship is discovered by:
• Scholars in your discipline or sub-
discipline
• Scholars in related fields
• Other stakeholders
(public, press, administrators,
grant makers, etc.)

7. Ways to Raise Your Scholarly Profile
• Improve the discoverability of your research
• Promote your scholarship to key stakeholders
• Take part in scholarly conversations using social media
• Measure the impact of individual publications

8. http://guides.library.duq.edu/scholarlyprofile

9. Discoverability
Where to Publish
• Choosing the Right Journals
• Journal Impact
• Repositories
• Authors’ Rights
• Open Access

10. Discoverability
Creating Scholarly Profiles
• ORCID iD
• Google Scholar
• Researcher ID (Web of Sci)
• Scopus Author Identifier
• WorldCat.org (books)

11. Promoting
Campus Resources
• Library Blog
• Media Relations
• Faculty Spotlight
• Grant Notices
• Faculty Experts
• Faculty Pages

12. Promoting
Other Resources
• SlideShare
• figshare
• Research Data
Repositories
• Search Engine
Optimization

13. Scholarly Conversations
• Why you should consider
using social media
• Why scholars use social
media
• Tips for using social media
as a scholar
• Resources:
• Academia.edu
• LinkedIn
• Research Blogging
• ResearchGate

14. Measuring Impact
• Altmetrics
• Citation Metrics
• Journal Metrics

15. Small Group Exercise
Kelley Cotter

16. Goals of the Exercise
• Exchange effective methods you use to raising your
scholarly profile
• Brainstorm new methods raising your scholarly profile

17. Put Your Heads Together
1. Break into four groups
2. Discuss questions like:
• What methods do you currently use to raise your scholarly
profile?
• What has been the most effective method?
• Are there methods you would like to try but haven’t yet
because of the time/learning curve?
3. Record your ideas on the workshop’s virtual corkboard
4. Reconvene as a group to discuss what we’ve
collectively come up with
Image by Flickr user Wader (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

18. Whole Group Discussion
Rob Behary

20. Wrap Up & Evaluation
Allison Brungard

21. Today’s take-aways
• Improve discoverability of your research
• Promote your scholarship
• Engage in scholarly conversations using social media
• Measure the impact of individual publications

22. Continue the Discussion…
•Follow-up email with shared Slides
•7 Day Impact Challenge begins Monday, Oct. 5
•Workshop Evaluation

23. Evaluation
• Please complete this brief survey –
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/scholarlyprofile2015

24. Presenter Contact Information
David Nolfi
nolfi@duq.edu, x4931
Health Sciences Librarian &
Library Assessment Coordinator
Allison Brungard
brungard@duq.edu, x5345
Research & Instruction Librarian
Rob Behary
beharyr@duq.edu, x1085
Systems Librarian
Kelley Cotter
cotter@duq.edu, x5343
Marketing & Electronic
Communications Librarian