LIBRARY SERVICES Paula Callan Scholarly Communications Librarian QUT Librar y IHBI ECR/MCR Forum Promoting research and building networks 29 th August 2014
LIBRARY SERVICES Session Overview Tools & strategies for….. –promoting your research –building your profile online –tracking your impact
LIBRARY SERVICES Promoting your research
LIBRARY SERVICES Open Access Problem: Subscription barriers restrict the number of people who can read your research publications Solution: Provide an open access by publishing in an open access journal (eg PLoS ONE) or by uploading the final manuscript version to QUT ePrints *Journalists only have access to open access articles
LIBRARY SERVICES Tweet your eprints
LIBRARY SERVICES April downloads spike
LIBRARY SERVICES Write for
LIBRARY SERVICES Share your data (or information about your data)
LIBRARY SERVICES DISTINGUISH YOURSELF
LIBRARY SERVICES Register for an ORCID ID
LIBRARY SERVICES MAINTAIN YOUR ONLINE PROFILES
LIBRARY SERVICES Researcher Profiles
LIBRARY SERVICES Why? Google your name.
LIBRARY SERVICES Other profile pages
LIBRARY SERVICES LinkedIn
LIBRARY SERVICES Tools for tracking and visualising impact
LIBRARY SERVICES QUT ePrints Citation data is imported into QUT ePrints to facilitate impact tracking
LIBRARY SERVICES QUT ePrints - visualisations
LIBRARY SERVICES Altmetrics measure social media and news media attention
LIBRARY SERVICES QUT ePrints - Citations & Altmetrics
LIBRARY SERVICES ImpactStory
LIBRARY SERVICES TIP: Only publish in journals which allocate DOIs.
LIBRARY SERVICES Web of Science – citing networks
LIBRARY SERVICES Other citation tracking tools Harzing’s Publish or Perish Scopus & SciVal
LIBRARY SERVICES Microsoft Academic Search – Co-author networks
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