Online Presence and You as a Digital Scholar

1. Online Presence and You as a Digital Scholar Sarah Goodier OpenUCT Law Seminar 14 October 2014

2. The digital universe and the digital Scholar

3. Image from: http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm

4. 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

5. Your online presence University profile page

6. Do you know how you appear online? ?

7. 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?

8. 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

9. The Research cycle in the digital age

10. From Czerniewicz (2013) “Power and politics in a changing scholarly communication landscape”: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1982&context=iatul

11. 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

12. 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

13. Tools to get you started

14. To profile yourself and your work: Google Scholar:

16. To profile yourself and your work: Academia.edu:

17. 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

18. Publish in open access journals (as of 12 Oct 2014) http://doaj.org/

19. Publish in open access journals http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.html

20. 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

21. Archive in a repository http://open.uct.ac.za

22. Archive in a repository http://open.uct.ac.za

23. Archive in a repository http://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/7496

24. To expand your engagement broadly http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/ Blog:

25. To expand your engagement broadly http://lawblogsa.com/ Blog:

26. To expand your engagement broadly Twitter:

27. To expand your engagement broadly http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/02/academic-tweeters-your-suggestions-in-full/ Twitter:

28. To expand your engagement broadly Twitter:

29. 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?

30. 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,

31. 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