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Neil Stewart, Digital Repository Manager
[email protected]://openaccess.city.ac.uk/
Creating impact for your research after publication: City Research
Online and social networking
Session overview•Scholarly communication in the internet age•Open access: a hot topic!•Open access at City: City Research Online•Social networking: a new form of scholarly communications, or a frivolous waste of time?
•Twitter, blogs & other social media•Open access & social media: power dissemination!
•Conclusions
Scholarly communication in the web age• The web as a classic disruptive technology - and these
effects are still playing out.• Knowledge can now be freely disseminated via the web.• Goodbye to the library as the gatekeeper for scholarly
knowledge.• Traditional models of publishing (subscription journals,
hard copy monographs) under threat as a result.• New methods of scholarly communications gaining
currency e.g. ebooks, open educational resources, open access journals.
• Problems of authority and authenticity of information.• Social media as a dissemination tool or a medium in its
own right?
Open access (OA): a hot topic!• General (reductive) idea: taxpayer funded research
should be accessible to all (and in particular all academics).
• “Green” and “Gold” routes to OA.• The OA citation advantage.• A lot of publicity around OA recently:• The Elsevier boycott.• Government moves to ensure the Research Councils ensure
research outputs are made OA.• The Guardian and other prominent media outlets have been
examining OA issues.• What does all this mean for researchers?• Likely that the Research Councils will mandate OA as a
condition of funding- and enforce this mandate!
Open access at City: City Research Online• Institutional repository service launched in Autumn 2011.
• Allows City authors to make their research (articles, chapters, conference papers, theses) available to anyone who wishes to access it via Green OA– author self-archiving.
• To do this, all we need is the “author final” version of papers- the final, post-refereeing draft.
• We do the copyright checking on your behalf.• Papers added to CRO get found and downloaded- we
recently broke the 100 downloads a day barrier, we have had downloads from c. 86 countries in the last month alone!
• See for example http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/582/, http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/501/
Social media- blogging•A new form of academic communication? •Quick & easy to set up a blog!•Allows for peer interaction, can find an audience outside the academy.
•Can contextualise research for new and wider audiences.
•Problems: finding the time, creating an audience.
Social media- Twitter•Short, timely updates on relevant topics.•Conversational model.•Know your audience! Possibility of mixed messages.
•Hashtagging your Tweets.•Some examples of good practice here at City: @giCentre, @cityuni_hcid, @CityLCS
•Also possible to build personal networks, e.g. @WebsterFrank
Case study: it really works!• Melissa Terras, UCL Department of Information Studies.• Made a concerted effort to blog & Tweet about her
papers which had been added to UCL’s institutional repository service.
• Most papers had received one or two downloads; after publicising, this rose to an average of 70 downloads per paper.
• As a result, she achieved 27 of the top 50 most downloaded papers in her department that month.
“If you tell people about your research, they look at it. Your research will get looked at more than papers which
are not promoted via social media.”
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/04/19/blog-tweeting-papers-worth-it/
Further readingThat LSE blog from my last slide:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Impact of Social Sciences Handbook: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/the-handbook/
A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
Social media: A guide for researchers: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
Thanks!Email: [email protected]: @neilstewart
CRO’s email address: [email protected]’s OA repository: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/CRO’s on City’s website:
http://www.city.ac.uk/research/research-publicationsCRO on Twitter: @City_ResearchCRO’s blog: http://cityopenaccess.wordpress.com/
City’s Social Media Officer Sabrina Francis: [email protected]
