Barbara Meyers Ford provides a foundation of what is going on in Social Media for scholarly publishers. Her panel includes Darrell Gunter of Gunter Media Group and Bill Jackson Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics of Medical College of Wisconsin

1. Viewing
Social Media
Through Different Lenses
CSE Annual Meeting
Communicate Science Effectively
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Barbara Meyers Ford

2. Types of Social Media
Social Networking
 Facebook, Twitter + 196 more
Online Communities
 Support researchers across a number of
different disciplines = 24+ websites providing
places to share and track research

3. Online Communities
 Academia.edu, started in 2008 = “growing
community of ~ 2.5 million academics
 Yammer (launched in 2008) = freemium social
network service; sold to Microsoft in 2012. Used
for private communication within organizations
or between organizational members and pre-
designated groups, making it an example
of enterprise social software.

4. Data Sharing
DataCite, formed end of 2009, with goals:
 “To establish easier access to research data on
the Internet;
 “ Increase acceptance of research data as
legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly
record, [and] support data archiving that will
permit results to be verified and repurposed for
future study.”
Source: DataCite website:
http://datacite.org/whatisdatacite

5. Social Bookmarking in STM
CiteULike was launched Nov 2004,
sponsored by Springer since Aug 2008
 focuses on needs of researchers:
 assign reading priority
 make notes to an article
 label an article as ‘private’
 upload a file assigned to an entry

6. Social Bookmarking in Science
3 Connotea, developed by the Nature
Publishing Group, went online December
2004 ~ based on Delicious but with
greater range of functions to better serve
unique requirements of academics
 essential functions integrated in ‘My Library’
toolbox to create groups, label resources, be
identified as the author of an article

7. Social Bookmarking in Science
 BibSonomy, aims to integrate the features of
bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented
publication management. Opened in 2006, it
distinguishes between web link and publication
book marks. Posts are stored in the BibTex
format and offered by the KDE group of the
University of Kassel, the DMIR group of the
University of Würzburg, and the L3S Research
Center, Germany.

8. Major Data Sharing Sites
BioMart
 45 databases on 4 continents;
 designed to be data agnostic and platform
independent, such that existing databases can
easily be incorporated
FigShare
 a repository where users can make all of their
research outputs available in
a citable, sharable and discoverable manner.

9. Data Sharing Sites (continued)
BioSharing.org
 works to register well-constituted efforts
developing standards for describing and
sharing biosciences experiments, ensuring
these resources are informative and
discoverable, monitoring their:
 development, evolution and integration;
 implementation and use in databases; and
 adoption by data policies by funders and journals.

10. Social Bookmarking in Science
 Source:
 “Social Bookmarking in STM: Putting Services
to the Acid Test.” Reher, Sabrina; Haustein,
Stefanie. ProQuest Online 34, 6 (Nov/Dec
2010): 34-42.