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Online Presence and You as a Digital Scholar. Sarah Goodier OpenUCT Law Seminar 14 October 2014. The digital universe and the digital Scholar. Image from: http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm. Rise of the digital scholar.
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Online Presence and You as a Digital Scholar Sarah Goodier OpenUCT Law Seminar 14 October 2014
Image from: http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm
Rise of the digital scholar Slide from Martin Weller’s presentation “Open scholarship, social media & libraries ”: http://www.slideshare.net/mweller/open-scholarship-social-media-libraries
Your online presence University profile page
Consider • What do you want your digital footprint to look like? • What kind of online presence do you want? • What do you have time to manage effectively? Any other considerations? What do I want? What can I realistically achieve?
Towards a professional online presence: From: Academics’ online presence - A four-step guide to taking control of your visibility: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2652
From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1982&context=iatul
Use the online space to support your research and teaching activities: From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1982&context=iatul
Digital, networked and open scholarship From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1982&context=iatul
To profile yourself and your work: Google Scholar:
To profile yourself and your work: Academia.edu:
To make your work more accessible: Is my research making an impact? Can it be found online? Click here for full text access! • Publish in Open Access Journals: • Improving the availability of your outputs
Publish in open access journals (as of 12 Oct 2014) http://doaj.org/
Publish in open access journals http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.html
To make your work more accessible: Is my research making an impact? Can it be found online? Click here for full text access! • Archive in a repository: • Improving the availability of your outputs
Archive in a repository http://open.uct.ac.za
Archive in a repository http://open.uct.ac.za
Archive in a repository http://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/7496
To expand your engagement broadly http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/ Blog:
To expand your engagement broadly http://lawblogsa.com/ Blog:
To expand your engagement broadly Twitter:
To expand your engagement broadly http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/02/academic-tweeters-your-suggestions-in-full/ Twitter:
To expand your engagement broadly Twitter:
Your Online Presence Building into a digital (networked) you! What is your purpose in having/ expanding your online presence? What is your strategy to achieve an appropriate online presence?
Excluding images, screenshots and logos and/or unless otherwise indicated on content Thank you • For more resources: • Try the OpenUCT Delicious bookmarks tagged ‘onlinepresence’: http://www.delicious.com/openuct/onlinepresence • Check out OpenUCT’s Online Presence guide for academics: http://openuct.uct.ac.za/article/academics-online-presence-guidelines-v2 • All screenshots used purely for illustrative purposes • Some slides used and/or adapted from: Laura Czerniewicz’s presentation ‘Academics' online presence - assessing & shaping visibility 2012’: http://www.slideshare.net/laura_Cz/academics-online-presence-assessing-shaping-visibility-2012,
Excluding images, screenshots and logos and/or unless otherwise indicated on content Contact OpenUCT: http://openuct.uct.ac.za @OpenUCT Contact Sarah: sarah.goodier@uct.ac.za @SarahGoodier @OpenExpl