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Presentation Title
Subtitle
Library Tools for PostDoc Success /
Digital Identity Workshop
Sheila Green, MSLS
Bryan Campus Librarian, College of Medicine Liaison
Acknowledgements to
Dong Joon Lee, Ph.D.
Office of Scholarly Communications
October 27, 2017
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Overview
1. Library Success Quick Tour
2. Identity and Impact– What is scholarly identity and impact? Why do we care?
3. Tools and Data
4. Make your online identity visible– Create and USE your ORCID
– Google Scholar Profile
– ResearchGate
5. Make your scholarly work accessible
6. Promote your work
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NOT the MSL Home Page
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msl.library.tamu.edu
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Use Either One for E-Library
Tip: Remember this choice for a week
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Your free ticket to article content
Important: Search and access via the MSL web page
If you don’t see a “Find Text @ TAMU” button, you accessed from
elsewhere… try again.
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msl.library.tamu.edu
Searches Google Scholar
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Another free ticket to article content
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TAMU doesn’t have it, no problem
Create an account the first time through,
emails when it’s available, FREE!!
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Researchers – Specialized Content
Biomedical Researchers
• Funding
• Protocols
• Unique Databases
• Guides – Data Management, AUP Search
Services, etc.
Publishing / Impact
• Scientific Writing Guide
• Selecting Where to Publish
• Scholarly Impact Metrics Guidance
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Researchers – Check These Out
• Biomedical researchers
• Funding
• Protocols
• Databases
• Services – AUP Searches,
Data Management help,
etc.
• Publishing / Impact
• Scientific writing
• Journal selection
• Impact metrics guidance
Before we move on…Questions?
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What is scholarly identity and impact?
• Identity– Who are you as a scholar?
– What do you do?
• Impact– How influential are you?
– How often is your work cited? Who is citing it?
– How important is it to the field?
• Reputation– How do others view you and your work?
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Why be concerned with your scholarly
impact?
Open data
and science
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Why be concerned with your scholarly
impact?
Open data
and science
Innovative
tools and
services
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Why be concerned with your scholarly
impact?
Open data
and science
Innovative
tools and
services
Recognized
value of your
work and
institutions
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Why be concerned with your scholarly
impact?
Open data
and science
Innovative
tools and
services
Recognized
value of your
work and
institutions
Scholarly
identity,
impact, and
reputation
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(Re)Claiming Your Narrative
https://www.aaup.org/article/editor-reclaiming-
narrative#.V9v_LvkrJhE
“The personal statement … is your
opportunity to make your own case.
The statement communicates a quick
sense of whether you know who you
are, where you’ve been, and where
you’re going in your career.”
Texas A&M Tenure & Promotion
Guidelines
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When and how do we use tools to
enhance or create your scholarly impact?
Knowledge Diffusion
Impact
Research Output
Scholarly Impact Lifecycle
Qin, J. (2010). Empirically assessing impact of scholarly research.
Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14924
Strategies to enhance your impact
– Make your online identity visible
– Make your scholarly work accessible
– Promote and measure your work
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MAKE YOUR ONLINE IDENTITY
VISIBLE
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Tools: Scholarly Identity
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Why do we need researcher identity
systems?
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• Name: DJ Lee
• TAMU NetID: djlee
• TAMU UIN: 12XXXXX80
• SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX
• Drivers License: XXXXXXXX
Why do we need researcher identity
systems?
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• Name: DJ Lee
• TAMU NetID: djlee
• TAMU UIN: 12XXXXX80
• SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX
• Drivers License: XXXXXXXX
Why do we need researcher identity
systems?
Not unique
Local
Local
Sensitive
Sensitive
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• Name: DJ Lee
• TAMU NetID: djlee
• TAMU UIN: 12XXXXX80
• SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX
• Drivers License: XXXXXXXX
Why do we need researcher identity
systems?
Not unique
Local
Local
Sensitive
Sensitive
Do we have a global researcher identifier?
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To identify your work from others,
• We need identifiers for:
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To identify your work from others,,
• We need identifiers for:
ORCID: 0000-0001-8994-163X
GRID ID: grid.264756.4
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173987
Source: Conlon, Michael (2016): Persistent Identifiers and VIVO. figshare.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3565989.v2
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Scholarly Identity on the Internet
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Create or Connect at orcid.org
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Use your
ORCID
Allow to read or add works:
- Scopus
- ResearcherID
- CrossRef
- NCBI
- TAMU Libraries
- Many others
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Use your ORCID
Put the QR Code on posters or on a label
on the back of a business card
Sheila Green, MSLS
Bryan Campus Librarian
Medical Sciences Library | Texas A&M University
1359 TAMU| Bryan, TX 77807ph. 979-436-0279 | [email protected] ://msl.library.tamu.edu/orcid.org/0000-0002-1614-061X
Add to email signature line
Put on profile sites
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Networking with
peer group
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Tips for ResearchGate
1. Create your accounts
2. Update your photo and
affiliation info.
3. Add all of your publication
metadata
4. Follow Big Names in your
field
5. Endorse your
collaborators’ skills and
expertise
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Traditional
citation
metrics
Tip: Avoid automatic update – you want control (and the email)
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Make your online identity
visible
Recommendation
1. Create and Use your ORCID
2. Maintain researcher profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Google Scholar)
http://orcid.org
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MAKE YOUR SCHOLARLY
WORK ACCESSIBLE
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Texas Data Repository:
TAMU’s Institutional Data Repository
http://data.tdl.org/
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Images & Data
(DOI available, very well known)
Presentations, Documents
Code
Repositories...
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Open Data
Open Sharing of
the Paper and
the Data
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
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Make your scholarly work
accessible
2. Publish your article in Open Access Journals
Recommendation
1. Deposit your works in Texas Data Repository, or external Open
Access repositories.
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PROMOTE AND MEASURE
YOUR WORK
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Promote Your Work
Tell Your Story
Know Your Impact
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Promote your work
Recommendation
1. Tweet, like, and mention your work! Track the data on your works!
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Summary:
Strategies to enhance your impact
Knowledge Diffusion
Impact
Research Output
Scholarly Impact Lifecycle
Qin, J. (2010). Empirically assessing impact of scholarly research.
Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14924
– Make your online identity visible
– Make your scholarly work accessible
– Promote and measure your work
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Recommendations
1. Create and Use your ORCID
2. Maintain researcher profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Google Scholar).
http://orcid.org
3. Deposit your works in Texas Data Repository or external Open
Access repositories.
5. Tweet, like, and mention your works! Track the data on your works!
4. Publish your article in Open Access Journals
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Subtitle
Questions or Comments?
Sheila Green, MSLS [email protected]
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1614-061X