Presentation Title

Subtitle

Library Tools for PostDoc Success /

Digital Identity Workshop

Sheila Green, MSLS

Bryan Campus Librarian, College of Medicine Liaison

Acknowledgements to

Dong Joon Lee, Ph.D.

Office of Scholarly Communications

October 27, 2017

Overview

1. Library Success Quick Tour

2. Identity and Impact– What is scholarly identity and impact? Why do we care?

3. Tools and Data

4. Make your online identity visible– Create and USE your ORCID

– Google Scholar Profile

– ResearchGate

5. Make your scholarly work accessible

6. Promote your work

NOT the MSL Home Page

msl.library.tamu.edu

Use Either One for E-Library

Tip: Remember this choice for a week

Your free ticket to article content

Important: Search and access via the MSL web page

If you don’t see a “Find Text @ TAMU” button, you accessed from

elsewhere… try again.

msl.library.tamu.edu

Searches Google Scholar

Another free ticket to article content

TAMU doesn’t have it, no problem

Create an account the first time through,

emails when it’s available, FREE!!

Research Guides

Researchers – Specialized Content

Biomedical Researchers

• Funding

• Protocols

• Unique Databases

• Guides – Data Management, AUP Search

Services, etc.

Publishing / Impact

• Scientific Writing Guide

• Selecting Where to Publish

• Scholarly Impact Metrics Guidance

Researchers – Check These Out

• Biomedical researchers

• Funding

• Protocols

• Databases

• Services – AUP Searches,

Data Management help,

etc.

• Publishing / Impact

• Scientific writing

• Journal selection

• Impact metrics guidance

Before we move on…Questions?

What is scholarly identity and impact?

• Identity– Who are you as a scholar?

– What do you do?

• Impact– How influential are you?

– How often is your work cited? Who is citing it?

– How important is it to the field?

• Reputation– How do others view you and your work?

Why be concerned with your scholarly

impact?

Open data

and science

Why be concerned with your scholarly

impact?

Open data

and science

Innovative

tools and

services

Why be concerned with your scholarly

impact?

Open data

and science

Innovative

tools and

services

Recognized

value of your

work and

institutions

Why be concerned with your scholarly

impact?

Open data

and science

Innovative

tools and

services

Recognized

value of your

work and

institutions

Scholarly

identity,

impact, and

reputation

(Re)Claiming Your Narrative

https://www.aaup.org/article/editor-reclaiming-

narrative#.V9v_LvkrJhE

“The personal statement … is your

opportunity to make your own case.

The statement communicates a quick

sense of whether you know who you

are, where you’ve been, and where

you’re going in your career.”

Texas A&M Tenure & Promotion

Guidelines

When and how do we use tools to

enhance or create your scholarly impact?

Knowledge Diffusion

Impact

Research Output

Scholarly Impact Lifecycle

Qin, J. (2010). Empirically assessing impact of scholarly research.

Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14924

Strategies to enhance your impact

– Make your online identity visible

– Make your scholarly work accessible

– Promote and measure your work

MAKE YOUR ONLINE IDENTITY

VISIBLE

Tools: Scholarly Identity

Why do we need researcher identity

systems?

• Name: DJ Lee

• TAMU NetID: djlee

• TAMU UIN: 12XXXXX80

• SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX

• Drivers License: XXXXXXXX

Why do we need researcher identity

systems?

• Name: DJ Lee

• TAMU NetID: djlee

• TAMU UIN: 12XXXXX80

• SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX

• Drivers License: XXXXXXXX

Why do we need researcher identity

systems?

Not unique

Local

Local

Sensitive

Sensitive

• Name: DJ Lee

• TAMU NetID: djlee

• TAMU UIN: 12XXXXX80

• SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX

• Drivers License: XXXXXXXX

Why do we need researcher identity

systems?

Not unique

Local

Local

Sensitive

Sensitive

Do we have a global researcher identifier?

To identify your work from others,

• We need identifiers for:

To identify your work from others,,

• We need identifiers for:

ORCID: 0000-0001-8994-163X

GRID ID: grid.264756.4

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173987

Source: Conlon, Michael (2016): Persistent Identifiers and VIVO. figshare.

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3565989.v2

Scholarly Identity on the Internet

Create or Connect at orcid.org

Use your

ORCID

Use your

ORCID

Allow to read or add works:

- Scopus

- ResearcherID

- CrossRef

- NCBI

- TAMU Libraries

- Many others

Use your ORCID

Put the QR Code on posters or on a label

on the back of a business card

Sheila Green, MSLS

Bryan Campus Librarian

Medical Sciences Library | Texas A&M University

1359 TAMU| Bryan, TX 77807ph. 979-436-0279 | sgreen@tamu.eduhttp://msl.library.tamu.edu/orcid.org/0000-0002-1614-061X

Add to email signature line

Put on profile sites

Networking with

peer group

Tips for ResearchGate

1. Create your accounts

2. Update your photo and

affiliation info.

3. Add all of your publication

metadata

4. Follow Big Names in your

field

5. Endorse your

collaborators’ skills and

expertise

Traditional

citation

metrics

Tip: Avoid automatic update – you want control (and the email)

Make your online identity

visible

Recommendation

1. Create and Use your ORCID

2. Maintain researcher profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Google Scholar)

http://orcid.org

MAKE YOUR SCHOLARLY

WORK ACCESSIBLE

Texas Data Repository:

TAMU’s Institutional Data Repository

http://data.tdl.org/

Images & Data

(DOI available, very well known)

Presentations, Documents

Code

Repositories...

Open Data

Open Sharing of

the Paper and

the Data

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

Make your scholarly work

accessible

2. Publish your article in Open Access Journals

Recommendation

1. Deposit your works in Texas Data Repository, or external Open

Access repositories.

PROMOTE AND MEASURE

YOUR WORK

Promote Your Work

Tell Your Story

Know Your Impact

Promote your work

Recommendation

1. Tweet, like, and mention your work! Track the data on your works!

Summary:

Strategies to enhance your impact

Knowledge Diffusion

Impact

Research Output

Scholarly Impact Lifecycle

Qin, J. (2010). Empirically assessing impact of scholarly research.

Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14924

– Make your online identity visible

– Make your scholarly work accessible

– Promote and measure your work

Recommendations

1. Create and Use your ORCID

2. Maintain researcher profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Google Scholar).

http://orcid.org

3. Deposit your works in Texas Data Repository or external Open

Access repositories.

5. Tweet, like, and mention your works! Track the data on your works!

4. Publish your article in Open Access Journals

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Questions or Comments?

Sheila Green, MSLS sgreen@tamu.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1614-061X