The document discusses the role of social media in research communication, highlighting various platforms like Google Docs, Twitter, and blogs for collaboration and information sharing. It provides examples of science and research blogs and wikis, emphasizing the importance of tagging and social bookmarking for organizing academic work. Additionally, it addresses common misconceptions about social media use within the scientific community and encourages researchers to adopt these tools to enhance their research dissemination and networking.

1. Social Media in Research: Use more than just email to communicate. Michelle Kraft MLS, AHIP Senior Medical Librarian Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library

2. Research Methods Image courtesy Cameron Neylon presentation

3. Research Methods using Social Media Google Docs Tagging Tagging Twitter Blogs Wikis RSS

4. Social Media Blogs & Wikis – notebooks Social Bookmarking – sharing sites & refs GoogleDocs – group writing & editing SlideShare – presentation repository Twitter – discussion RSS – news and search feeds

5. Blogs and Wikis Communication platform Article and news discussion Trends profiling An online notebook Link out to external resources, protocols, data Open or closed In-house, password protected Viewable by the public

6. Science & Research Blogs -News MicrobiologyBytes http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/ Latest news about microbiology Peer-To-Peer http://blogs.nature.com/peer-to-peer/ For peer-reviewers and about peer review Professor Douglas Kell’s blog http://blogs.bbsrc.ac.uk/ News, thoughts, and facts from Chief Executive of the BBSRC HUGO Matters http://www.hugo-international.org/blog/ Discusses topics relevant to human genetics and genomics

7. Science & Research Blogs -News & Extra Useful Chemistry http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/ Chronicles research involving the synthesis of novel anti-malarial compounds. Closely tied to Useful Chemistry wiki Cold Spring Harbor Protocols http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/ Discusses current events in biology with emphasis on lab techniques, protocols are highlighted & discussed in detail

9. Science & Research Blogs -Lab Notes Lab notes now more on wikis than blogs Cameron Neylon http://biolab.isis.rl.ac.uk/camerons_labblog Michael Barton http://www.michaelbarton.me.uk/research/

11. Science & Research Wikis UsefulChem wiki http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/ Synthesis of novel anti-malarial compounds, including experiments Completely open OBF wiki http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Main_Page Open Bioinformatics Foundation focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics OpenWetWare http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page Promotes sharing of information, know-how and wisdom among researchers & groups working in biology & biological engineering Partially open WikiPathways http://www.wikipathways.org/index.php/WikiPathways Dedicated to the curation of biological pathways

12. More Science & Research Wikis Kochlab notebook wiki http://bit.ly/3e7mkB DNA unzipping data analysis Semi public, has private wiki Rosania Research Group wiki http://1cellpk.wikispaces.com/ All lab notebooks of Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Michigan College of Pharmacy Yeast Genome wiki http://wiki.yeastgenome.org/index.php/Main_Page Everything yeast including protocols, methods, reagents, strains

15. Social Bookmarking A.K.A Tagging Similar to browser bookmarks On the web, accessible anywhere Viewable to others Include descriptors, metadata, etc. Lots of tagging applications Delicious CiteULike Connotea

16. Delicious Early social bookmarking web service Very popular 5 million users 150 million bookmarked URLs Use any term to index sites Easy to use Easy to syndicate (RSS feed) Does NOT import to Endnote Does not support automatic import of journal metadata

18. CiteULike Intended to organize academic publications designed specifically for scientists & scholars to share articles & information Captures article metadata in RIS (EndNote compatible) Identifies how many people have bookmarked a publication Collects data on potential number of readers not just citer Automatic import for JSTOR, PLoS, PubMed, SpringerLink, ScienceDirect PDF uploading to repository

20. Connotea Created by Nature Publishing Group Similar to CiteULike but aimed specifically at scientists Automatic import for BioMedCentral, PLoS, PubMed, Nature.com, Wiley Interscience Captures article metadata in RIS (EndNote compatible) Can have spam problems Some don’t like the advertising OpenSource Group feature allows tagged sites to be uploaded to all members of group No PDF uploading

22. GoogleDocs Collaborative writing, editing, data sharing Edit in real time Complete History of Changes Editing conflict rare but easy to identify & fix Documents saved & exported as DOC, XLS, CSV, ODS, ODF, BTF, RTF, HTML Sometimes has problems with images and citations

26. SlideShare Your presentation doesn’t end at the conference Upload, share, view, download slides, PDF, Docs Audio, video upload and sharing abilities Embed slides into website Private or public Contact original authors

28. Twitter Common misconceptions Waste of time Place to spam, advertise Only the self absorbed 1 in 5 American Internet users tweet Visits grew by 1382% in one year More popular than Facebook 228% growth 42% tweets from 35-49 year olds 62% access Twitter from work More popular than Facebook 228% growth

29. Twitter Method to network on the fly Share breaking news, information, articles Journal or association news, TOCs Create news & topic update feeds Need Twitter client Tweetie TweetDeck

30. Who is Tweeting? NatureNews 4,197 followers NIH NIHforHealth 10,815 followers NIHforFunding 1,275 followers CellPressNews 1,196 followers NEJM 1,184 followers

32. Twitter in Conference Settings Updates of events, speakers, presentations Logistical information Enhanced discussion Questions to presenters from off site Discussions between attendees & non attendees Links to presentations, pictures, & videos

34. Facebook: For Science Nature Network http://network.nature.com/ Connect with colleagues Create a profile, describe yourself & your research, list publications Discuss science news and issues Join forums on topics of interest Science Blogs Create your own, read others, post comments Events and other information Upcoming seminars, conferences, job listings

36. Information Overload?

37. Gathering Information

38. RSS: Online News Feeds

39. Almost Everything Has a Feed (RSS) Blogs & wikis –notified of changes or new posts PubMed, Scopus, WoS, etc. –search updates Journals –news, TOCs Twitter –follow topics, groups, news

40. All That Glitters is not Gold No Time Already got too much on my plate Mine My idea, my data, my hard work Don’t want to get scooped Unfamiliarity Publishing and grant restrictions Data on Internet may be “already published”

41. Have It Your Way Assess your wants and needs Example: subscribe to Twitter to monitor specific topic news and information Try one thing at a time Don’t try to blog, tweet, and a wiki all at once in the beginning Let things build off each other Example: RSS feeds can lead to tagging Give things some time to find your legs Email was once a new technology.

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