Open Practices Beyond Open Access Presentation by Brian Kelly, UKOLN on 25 October 2012 for an Open Access Week event at the University of Exeter 1 Open Practices For Researchers Presentation by Brian Kelly, Cetis on 19 June 2014 for the Research and Innovation Conference 2014 at the University of Bolton
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Open Practices Beyond Open Access
Presentation by Brian Kelly, UKOLN on 25 October 2012 for an Open Access Week event at the University of Exeter
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Open Practices For Researchers
Presentation by Brian Kelly, Cetis on 19 June 2014 for the Research and Innovation Conference 2014 at the University of Bolton
Open Practices For Researchers
Brian KellyInnovation AdvocateCetisUniversity of BoltonBolton, UK
Contact DetailsEmail: [email protected]: @briankellyBlog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/Cetis Web site: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
Slides and further information available at http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/open-practices-for-researchers/
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Brian Kelly:• Innovation Advocate, Cetis, University of Bolton• Formerly UK Web Focus, UKOLN from 1996-2013• Prolific blogger (1,300+ posts since Nov 2006)• User of various social networking tools to
support professional activities• Prolific speaker (~425 talks since 1996)
Research activities:• Peer-reviewed papers in Web accessibility,
standards, web preservation, …• Prizes: best research paper at ALT-C 2005 and
best communications paper at WAI 2010• Invited speaker at library / Web conferences
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Google Scholar Citations
See http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ixey0RkAAAAJ
H-index=14 (according to Google Scholar Citations
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About This Talk
Open access:• Benefits for researchers increasingly
understood This talk goes beyond open access:
• Open practices: sharing ideas on blogs • Open engagement: the role of Twitter • Dissemination: getting your research read• Gathering the evidence: social media
metrics / altmetrics • Making it work: identifying best practices
This talk provides tips for the connected researcher
Based on evidence gained from personal experiences
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Top Tips for Jisc Inform
See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform35/InternationalOAWeek.html
Interests in institutional reputation; reporting, auditing, …
The library: Manages the institutional repository Support service
Your department: Interests in departmental reputation Will seek to exploit its research activities
You, the researcher, with interests in: Your personal research reputation Developing your network Future funding and research opportunities Your long-term (research) career
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Do You Want to ‘Market’ Your Research?
Do you seek to change the world through your research or simply understand the world:
• Will you want to market your research?• Will you want others to market your research?• Will you have a detached view of your
“Using Context to Support Effective Application of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines”, Sloan, Kelly et al, JWE (5), 2006
• Submitted in July 2005• Reviewers comments received in April 2006• Published in JWE (Journal of Web Engineering) in December 2006• PDF uploaded to repository in May 2012 (forgot about paper until
bulk uploads)
Reflections on implications given in “If a Tree Falls in a Forest” post
Little-downloaded paper:• Uploaded to repository 6 years after paper written• I was not lead author• Only PDF version uploaded• Never blogged about; never tweeted
Most popular paper:• Available in IR on launch of journal issue• I was lead author• Blog post published on day of launch• Available in PDF, MS Word & HTML formats• Link to paper subsequently tweeted & retweeted• About Web 2.0, so likely to be read by bloggers
But what about the majority of papers?
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SEO or SMO
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation):Helping Google find your papers through:
Survey findings:“give a community & shared space to explore ideas”“regular opportunity to network with a wide range of people I wouldn’t otherwise meet”“have very interesting and thought-provoking discussions/debate”
• You should claim your profile while your institutional email address is valid.
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Google Scholar
• You can also receive alerts of new citations
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#boltonunirandi14Tip No. 7: Develop Your Network
Tip No. 7:Understand the potential benefits
of Twitter
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Twitter
• You can’t ignore Twitter!
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Mellisa Terras’ blog post on how Twitter increases downloads for peer-reviewed papers
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Other potential areas for such use of Twitter
• Promoting your project outputs • Promoting events• …
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Understanding Twitter
Applications such as SocialBro provide an understanding of how Twitter is being used
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• Most tweet daily• Most follow >100
• Most tweet <=5 times
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#boltonunirandi14Using Twitter (For The Sceptic)Not a natural Twitterer, but see benefits?
• Have an avatar (portrait, animal, hobby)
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Grow your community (cf the conversations you miss)• Participate in hashtagged events so like-minded people
see you exist• Share links to resources you care about (your stuff;
stuff you’re reading)• Favourite tweets (so others can see you’ve done so and
maybe then follow you)
Understand Twitter Interactions
An @ message (can be delivered by SMS)
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New followers: which should I follow back?
The tweets which have been retweeted (RTd)Tweets which have been favourited (bookmarked)
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Health Warning!
Suggestions given can help to enhance the visibility of one’s research.
Highly visible and popular research is not necessarily an indication of quality!
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Conclusions
1. Be pro-active2. Make it easier for your peers to access your
work by providing links in a timely fashion 3. Monitor what works for you4. Don’t forget the Google juice5. Develop your network6. You can’t ignore Google7. Understand the potential benefits of Twitter
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Questions?
Any questions, comments, …?
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