Collaboration & Research Sharing Tools

What do they do, what do they mean for your career, and who’s responsible?

Rebecca KuglitschInterdisciplinary Science Librarian

CU Boulder1/14/2013

The Facebooks of Science?

• ResearchGate

• Academia.edu

• Mendeley

• VIVO – Maybe the LinkedIn of science?

Too much social in your network?

• Limit emails & manage privacy using ResearchGate:http://screencast.com/t/vX7H8arTVh

• Limit emails & manage privacy using Academia.edu:http://screencast.com/t/7XuAfjZYDj2n

All of these tools can…

• Provide some information about when and how your work is used by others

• Help you develop networks of colleagues

•Share content

Which is right for you?

• Academia.edu and/or ResearchGate if you want a profile right now. – Especially good for grad students

• Mendeley if you want a collaboration and citation tool, too.

• VIVO & our institutional repository if you want the university to do the work– Still under development, but will be very low effort & high

impact for faculty users.

More about VIVO

• Data for your profile is vetted by you when you do your FRPA, so no extra work

• Will eventually be a way to highlight your CV & publications

• And will connect with our institutional repository and other open access sources

VIVO will look something like this:

https://scholars.duke.edu/

Why use services that share your publications?

• Makes your publications more readily available, which– May increase their citation rate– Makes them available to non-academics– Makes them available to scholars from institutions

that may not be able to afford the publications

But, in December 2013…

Avoid this by knowing…

• What publications you are allowed to share

• How you can legally & ethically share them

• And what might happen if you inadvertently share too much

Copyright & author’s rights

• Copyright is yours at the moment you commit something to writing.

• But typically, when you publish in a toll-access journal or write a book, you sign over your copyright to the publisher.

• You wrote it. • But you can’t necessarily share it.

So, what are your author’s rights?

• Check your author’s agreement if you still have it.

• Check SHERPA/RoMEO for current default rights.– Watch a screencast demonstrating this

• Check with your publisher.

Share your work safely

• Choose an open access journal (Gold OA)– Library fund to cover fees

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/oa/oafund.htm

• Self-archive (Green OA)– SPARC author addendum

http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum-2007

– Archive whatever you’re allowed to, however you’re allowed

– SHERPA/RoMEO will help you figure this out

Terminology

• Preprints– Typically refers to a pre-peer-review draft

• Postprints– Typically refers to a draft that has been through

peer review, but is often not the publisher’s PDF

What if you post too much?(This is not legal advice!)

• Probably nothing.• But you might receive a takedown notice, and

need to take your article down.

• What if someone else distributes your work?• They might receive a takedown notice, and

need to take your article down.

Resources• Shelly or Rebecca (Rebecca.kuglitsch@colorado.edu) are happy to help with

questions• CU Library Open Access fund

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/scholarlycommunications/oa/oafund.htm • SPARC author addendum

http://www.sparc.arl.org/resources/authors/addendum-2007 • SHERPA/RoMEO

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo• How to look up a journal’s policy using SHERPA/RoMEO

http://screencast.com/t/QJabx9xaFA • Set your privacy controls and limit email for Academia.edu

http://screencast.com/t/7XuAfjZYDj2n• ResearchGate

http://screencast.com/t/vX7H8arTVh