The document provides guidance on getting recognition for open science work. It recommends depositing pre-prints in appropriate archives to engage one's community and start discussions early. Self-archiving research outputs like data, code and posters on services like Figshare or Zenodo enables others to build on one's work. Announcing work on social media and using hashtags can amplify messages but requires interacting regularly. Altmetrics can assess non-paper outputs more quickly but numbers require careful interpretation. The main takeaways are to engage one's community beyond one's lab homepage and be an informer, not just a self-promoter.

1. gefördert durch das Kompetenzzentrenprogramm
Arbeitsgruppe Open Science
Practical tools,
examples and guidelines
for getting recognition
Peter Kraker (Know-Center)
YEAR Conference 2015
Seminar 3: How to get recognition for my
Open Science work

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Before we start
Parts of this talk build on the following talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEGrCAjelo

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Main Take-Aways
Go where your community is – your lab homepage is not
enough
Interact and collaborate with your community
Be aware of metrics and communication around your work
Don‘t just be a Me-former, be an informer

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Pre-Prints
Depositing your work in a repository prior to submitting it to
a conference or journal
Benefits
Good scholarly practice
Gives others immediate open access to your work
Makes your work visible to the world immediately
Starts the discussion even before publication
Caveats
Need to check journal/publisher policies
Finding an appropriate preprint archive

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Pre-Prints: Benefits
CC-BYknitgirl
http://www.oastories.org/

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Pre-Prints: Checking Policies
http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

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Pre-Prints: Physics, Math & Computer Science
http://arxiv.org

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Pre-prints: Biology
http://www.biorxiv.org/

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Pre-Prints: Social Sciences, Economy, & Humanities
http://www.ssrn.com/

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There are more…
http://is.gd/preprints

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Self-archiving research outputs
Publishing other kinds of research outputs (data, source
code, images, posters, slides…) on the Web
Benefits
Enables others to build on top of your work
Makes your output available to others in a citable format
Your outputs receive a Digital Object Identifier
Caveats
Make sure that you have the legal right to publish these outputs
Assign a permissive license (CC-BY or CC0) and document to
maximise potential for reuse
Choose a service known to your community

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Self-archiving data
http://service.re3data.org/search

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Self-archiving research outputs
http://figshare.com

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Self-archiving research outputs
http://zenodo.org

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Self-archiving research outputs: Benefits

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Posting to Social Media
Announcing your work and interacting with your peers on
social media
Benefits
Provides a forum for scholarly communication outside of
journals and conferences
Enables quick interaction with your peers
Amplifies your message and gives you the possibility to break it
down to the main messages
Caveats
Use the right hashtags/channels/lists
Can be time-consuming

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Posting to Social Media: Blogs

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Posting to Social Media: Blogs

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Posting to Social Media: Facebook

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Posting to Social Media: Twitter

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Posting to Social Media: Research Networks

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Posting to Social Media: Mailing Lists

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Posting to Social Media: Benefits

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Altmetrics
Altmetrics: alternative metrics based on data generated in
online systems
Benefits
Assess publications quicker and on a broader scale
Consider all outputs of research, not just papers
Allow you to track the reception of your work
Caveats
As with any metrics, treat these numbers with caution
You need a unique ID (DOI, arXiv-ID, Pubmed ID) to play

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Altmetrics: Altmetric Bookmarklet
http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

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Altmetrics: Altmetric Bookmarklet

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Altmetrics: Altmetric Bookmarklet

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Altmetrics: Caveats

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Main Take-Aways
Go where your community is – your lab homepage is not
enough
Interact and collaborate with your community
Be aware of metrics and communication around your work
Don‘t just be a Me-former, be an informer
AND…
Go where your community is – your lab homepage is not
enough

30. gefördert durch das Kompetenzzentrenprogramm
Arbeitsgruppe Open Science
Thank you for your
attention!
Peter Kraker
pkraker@know-center.at
http://twitter.com/PeterKraker
http://science20.wordpress.com