Learning Outcomes As a result of todays workshop, you will be
able to: Find professional associations, other networking
opportunities, workshops, and conferences related to your needs.
Identify core journals and understand how journal impact may be
determined. Understand the changing nature of scholarly
communication, especially the advent of electronic publishing and
Open Access scholarship. Maximize your personal scholarly impact by
shaping your academic portfolio, and your digital scholarly
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because you never know who you might meet in the elevator.
Elevator Speech So, what are you working on? Uhh
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Tips and Tricks Keep it short and sweet (approximately 30
seconds) Answer who you are, what youre working on, and where youre
working on it Know your audience try to avoid jargon, or overly
complicated language Leave them wanting more share your goals for
the future Try to sound natural practice, practice, practice!
Elevator Speech
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Hi, Im Natalie Colaiacovo. Right now, Ive been working a lot
with marginalia readers writing in the margins of books,
particularly during the Romantic period, and how Romantic writers
may have triggered this wave in reader response. I just started the
second year of my MLIS at McGill, and for my book history class, Im
examining Keatss markings in the margins of his copy of Spensers
Faerie Queene. In the future, however, Im interested in examining
student marginalia in library books, and how marginalia might be
used to improve student learning. My Elevator Speech
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At a major conference in your field, you find yourself in an
elevator with a distinguished scholar. She turns to you and says,
What are you working on? How do you respond? Take 5 minutes to
prepare your 30-second answer. Be ready to share your speech with
the group. Elevator Speech
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A great way to get your feet wet in your research community.
Often report on research-in-progress. Serve as platforms for
networking and collaboration across institutions, countries,
disciplines. Conferences
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Professional associations Finding conferences
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Canadas largest gathering of scholars across disciplines.
Organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Congress brings together academics, researchers, policy-makers, and
practitioners to share findings, refine ideas, and build
partnerships that will help shape the Canada of tomorrow. Congress
of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Calls for Papers listing (maintained by Penn State) Calls for
Papers listing (maintained by Penn State) H-net listservs H-net
listservs Calls for papers and listservs
Search for papers/proceedings in your topic area. Notice the
conferences that research in your area is being presented at.
Places to search: PapersFirst ProceedingsFirst Conference
Proceedings in Web of ScienceConference Proceedings in Web of
Science (select Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social
Science & Humanities (CPCI- SSH) --1990-present at bottom of
search screen) Searching conference proceedings and papers
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Poster Sessions
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Poster creation A selection of templates and themes are
available for download from the Montreal Neurological Institute and
Hospital.Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Guides to
creating conference posters: Creating Effective Poster
Presentations | An Effective Poster. North Carolina State
University. Research Posters. University of Illinois Library
Presentations & Poster Sessions. Brandeis University
Library
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Presentations What kind of presentation are you going to give?
http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/
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Talking Points: Presentation Principles and Techniques by Andy
Giesler
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Make a few simple points
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Death by PowerPoint
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http://search.creativecommons.org/ Public Domain Images
Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
Publishing Your Results Choosing a Journal Sharing Your Work
Are You Being Cited?
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Which journal you choose can affect: Getting a job
Reappointment / Tenure Funding for scholars and institutions
Choosing a Journal
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THE QUANTITATIVE WAY THE QUALITITATIVE WAY THE ALTERNATIVE WAY
Choosing a Journal
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The Quantitative Way Scopus (1996 - ) Web of Science (1900-)
Metric: SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) -Looks at 4 years of data -Takes
into account journal reputation Metric: Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
-Looks at 2 years of data -Takes into account number of articles
published per journal Features: -Use Journal Analytics to create
comparison graphs -View journal rankings by discipline on
scimagojr.com Features: -Explore journal metrics through Journal
Citation Reports
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1. Find the top journal in your field by searching
http://www.scimagojr.com http://www.scimagojr.com 2. Use Scopuss
Journal Analyzer to compare one of the top English literature
journals, PMLA, with one of the top chemistry journals, Chemical
Reviews The Quantitative Way
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Some Questions to Consider: Are there issues for the evaluation
of humanities journals? Are metrics trustworthy or reliable? What
personal methods do you use to evaluate a journals impact?
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Metrics may be precise... But they arent perfect Metrics are
slow Metrics are narrow Metrics are arbitrary The Quantitative
Way
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The Qualitative Way Peer review Coverage in bibliographic
databases Peer evaluation Publisher Audience Scholarship
profile
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Further reading: East, John. Ranking Journals in the
Humanities. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 37, no.1
(March 2006): 3-16. Harley, Diane, et al. Final Report: Assessing
the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of
Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. Berkeley: Center for
Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley,
2010. See esp. chap. 6, History Case Study.
http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc.http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc
The Qualitative Way
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Web of Science Citation Mapping Measuring citations
qualitatively The Qualitative Way
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The Alternative Way
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Altmetrics.org By Jason Priem
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Are You Being Cited? Web of Science Cited Reference Search
Citation Report Scopus Cited by H-Index: An H-Index of X indicates
that X articles by that author have been cited at least X times
(since 1996). Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.ca). Cited by
number.www.scholar.google.ca Yang, Kiduk, and Lokman I. Meho.
Citation Analysis: A Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web
of Science. Proceedings of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology 43, no.1 (2007): 1-15.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301185http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301185
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Generating a Citation Report in Web of Science
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Finding an authors H-index Use ScopusScopus An h Index for a
group of selected documents or selected author(s) with an h Index
of 12 means that out of the total number of documents selected to
produce the graph, 12 of the documents have been cited at least 12
times. Published documents with fewer citations than h, in this
case less then 12, are considered, but would not count in the h
Index. - Scopus For more information about the h index, see Hirsch,
J.E. "An index to quantify an individuals scientific research
output." Department of Physics, University of California, San
Diego.Hirsch, J.E. "An index to quantify an individuals scientific
research output." Department of Physics, University of California,
San Diego.
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Choose Author search tab
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Type authors name
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Make author selection and then click View Citation
Overview
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open access, copyright, and you amy buckland eScholarship,
ePublishing & Digitization Coordinator
[email protected]
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open access eScholarship@McGill your (copy)rights today!
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Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge,
and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions - Peter Suber
open access
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publicly-funded research ought to be available to the public OA
ensures access to research without price barriers increases the
visibility of your research satisfies funding agencies open access
to scholarship
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ensures access increases visibility full-text searchable
available to anyone with web access satisfies the OA mandates of
funding agencies eScholarship@McGill
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some publishers will require you to transfer copyright in some
cases this will mean you can no longer teach using your
publications, or even build off of it for further research there
are three tools to help you keep the rights you need SPARC author
addendum Creative Commons licensing your librarian! know your
(copy)rights
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Authors retain your rights reuse your work without restrictions
receive proper attribution for your work make your work openly
available through an open access repository Publishers have a
non-exclusive right to publish and distribute your work, and
receive financial return are cited as journal of first publication
able to use the work in future formats, including collections SPARC
author addendum
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4 different types of licensing satisfies copyright concerns can
be used for scholarly and other creative works if you blog do you
have a CC license? specific rules for Canada www.creativecommons.ca
Creative Commons
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do you exist in the open web? what happens when you Google your
name? where does the professional you live? how much of your web
presence do you control? your web presence
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Maintaining Your Academic Profile Writing support - Curriculum
Vitae - Academic Portfolio Social Media
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Library Subject Guide
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CV Resources McGill CaPSCareer Planning Service Examples of CVs
for Academic and Non-Academic Jobs,
http://www.mcgill.ca/caps/students
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Writing Tutorial Service. For students of all abilities.
http://www.mcgill.ca/mwc/tutorial-service
http://www.mcgill.ca/mwc/tutorial-service We offer writing support
in all subjects, and we work with both native and non- native
English speakers. Tutors will show you how to organize your ideas,
express yourself clearly, make convincing arguments, and reach the
right audience. We will work with you at any stage of the writing
process, from outlining to revision. Tutors will also teach you
writing skills to help you identify common grammatical and
structural errors. Writing support
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Academic Portfolio.
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An academic CV Education Education Honours & Awards Honours
& Awards Research & Teaching Interests Research &
Teaching Interests Experience Experience Publications Publications
Conference Conference Academic Association Affiliations &
Service Academic Association Affiliations & Service Languages
Languages References References
http://www.careers.utoronto.ca/progServ/CH01/Creating_your_academic_cv_handout.pdf
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Teaching / Scholarship / Service Purpose and focus of research
Your publications Your grants/funding and your level of
participation Your conference presentations Describe each items
significance to your career, field, department, and its relevance
to your goals. Minimize jargon Contents
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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/http://www.linkedin.com/
Academia.edu: http://www.academia.edu/http://www.academia.edu/
Blogging, scholarly and otherwise Twitter Think about your digital
tattoo Academic social networking
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students tinyurl.com/myresearch4 Your comments are greatly
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