This document provides 23 ways for researchers to communicate and showcase their skills in an era where academia is changing. It discusses tools for blogging, making presentations and videos visible, using social networks like Twitter and Mendeley, tracking alternative metrics with tools like Altmetric and ImpactStory, collaborating online, and practicing productivity habits. The overall message is that researchers need to find new ways to produce, communicate and measure the impact of their work as open access and demonstrating societal impact become more important.
18. Prescribing a Digital Technology
● You need to understand why you are taking it
● You need to understand the benefits
● You need to understand the side-effects
● You need to understand that the benefits may
take time
● You may need two courses
● You may need a different intervention
● Do not feel pressured to use it - as it won’t work
33. The dissemination and communication
of research is changing
Presentations and seminars
Funding and ethics applications
Academic books
Journal articles and posters
Term papers and essays
Meetings and conferences
Correspondence
Open access
Supplementary data
Online reference managers
Press
Post-publication peer-review
Social media
Blogs
35. Traditional metrics struggle to
reflect this
- Slow to accrue
- Focus mostly on published articles
Published
June 2014:
Starting to impact the behaviour of academics
36. Development of altmetrics
(alternative indicators)
● To complement, not replace traditional metrics
● Help people understand how research is being received and
used, and by who
● Not intended as an indicator of quality
● Can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal
impact’
● Give credit for research outputs other than articles
39. The Altmetric score and donut
● developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received
● not an indicator of quality of the research!
● useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once
49. # 23 Productivity Hacks
Avoid email for the first hour morning
Use an app like 30/30 to plan your day
Try the Pomodoro Technique
Have a walking meeting
Meditate
Eat a frog
50. Everyone likes lists these days
● Get a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for your
outputs
● Get an ORCiD account
● Update your Google Scholar profile
● Try Twitter (at least to see what’s going on)
● Put your presentations on to Slideshare (check
copyright first)
● You are ALL experts in something - write an
expert article for such as The Conversation
http://www.doi.org/index.html
http://orcid.org/