Social media for researchers [beginners!] (web version)

Social Media for

Researchers(Getting started session)

James BissetAcademic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)Elaine TannIS Specialist (Learning Technologies)

Social Media for

Researchers(Getting started session)

James BissetAcademic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)Elaine TannIS Specialist (Learning Technologies)

Digital Tools for

Researchers(Getting started session)

James BissetAcademic Liaison Librarian (Research Support)Elaine TannIS Specialist (Learning Technologies)

Overview of session

-Overview of social media for researchers-Introduction to Twitter

-Hands on: setting up Twitter-Making the most of Twitter

-Making the most of digital tools -Hands on: other tools for sharing, collaborating and disseminating.

Before we start…

What help, advice & guidance is already available?

September 2012

“…to assist researchers and their supervisors to adopt and use social media tools in the service of their research, and, in particular, in engaging in the discourse of research.”

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/567271/Handbook-of-social-media-for-researchers-and-supervisors.html

JISC Social Media GuideJune 2012

A three year study looking at:

“the information seeking and research behaviour of doctoral students in ‘Generation Y’, born between 1982 and 1994 and not digital natives.”

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow

RIN guide to Social MediaFebruary 2011

“ …using social media to bridge disciplinary boundaries, to engage in knowledge exchange with industry and policy makers, and to provide a channel for the public communication of their research.”

http://rinarchive.jisc-collections.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

Collaboration

Identifi-cation…

Creation…

Quality Assurance

…

Dissem-ination…

Research Cycle1

Identification of Knowledge

“Social media can help to enhance your research capacity within the time limits and workload constraints academic researchers usually face.”RIN (Feb 2011)

Identification of Knowledge

“ I used it to expand my literature search since you can find links … if you follow the right people … it will point you to interesting ideas and topics, which you can then follow-up on your own.”Vitae & Open University (Sep 2012)

Creation of Knowledge

“So in this space, we [project team] storedocuments, have discussions, create documents collaboratively”Vitae and Open University (Sep 2012)

Quality Assurance of Knowledge

“ I use social media for getting help, asking advice, brainstorming for my #EdD #phdchat”

Quality Assurance of Knowledge

“ #phdchat I used a wiki to get feedback on some diagrams I was developing”

Quality Assurance of Knowledge

“ I used Twitter to find scholars in research fields like mine or simply interested in discussing research on social media #phdchat”

Dissemination of Knowledge

“… within 24h it was retweeted 10 times to over 5000 followers and shared 135 times using social sharing tools (email, microblogging, social bookmarking, social networking) ... This resulted in 861 downloads within 24 hours of the first tweet about our paper. Puustinen, K & Edwards, R. LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog (May 2012)

Dissemination of Knowledge

“Most papers were downloaded c. 100 times within 24 hours of me tweeting about the article being available.”

“2011 journal article: 376 downloads from journal publishers site. 1115 downloads from repository.”

Terras, M. ‘How to use social media to promote open access content’ (Oct 2012) Presentation delivered to Opening Research and Data event at Birkbeck College, University of London

Social Networks

Activity 1Discuss in two’s or three’s your concerns or potential ideas for using Twitter, Facebook, blogging etc..

Getting started with

Activity 21) Create a Twitter account for

yourself2) Make your first Tweet: Include

#DUOct2012 somewhere in the tweet.

3) Start to follow other Twitter followers

4) Check out http://www.sm4research.blogspot.co.uk/ for other social media info.

Using twithter eff Use hashtags to discuss a topic

or join in shared conversations. Eg #OAWeek, #phdchat, #vitae12

Use @ to mention someone in your Tweet Eg @drodurham, @bissetjm,

Use RT or MT to repeat (‘retweet’] a message posted by someone else to your network.

#

@RT/MT

Using twithter eff

Embed your twitter feed in other places: - web pages / blog / LinkedIn

Manage your Twitter account and Tweets: - Tweetdeck / Hootsuite / Twuffer - Schedule tweets in advance - Monitor multiple search feeds - Manage multiple Twitter / Facebook accounts

Other tools

Bibliometrics, author metrics, altmetrics and open access

Selected Bibliography1. Cann, A., Dimitriou, K., Hooley, T., "Social Media : A guide for

researchers", (February), 2011 http://rinarchive.jisc-collections.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

2. Pearce, Nick (2010). Digital Scholarship Audit Report. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. http://oro.open.ac.uk/23143/2/pearce(1).pdf

3. Minocha, S., Petres M., (2012) Handbook of Social Media for Researchers and Supervisors http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/567271/Handbook-of-social-media-for-researchers-and-supervisors.html

4. Researchers of Tomorrow (June 2012) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/researchers-of-tomorrow

5. Cowan, R., Hardman, A. (2009) “Using Technology to enhance your research” http://www.slideshare.net/actualal/technology-enabled-research-2472720

6. Mathelus, S., Pittman, G. and Yablonski-Crepeau, J (2012) “Promotion of Research Articles to the Lay Press” http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20120307

7. “How to live-tweet a conference” http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=12120

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