These are the slides from a talk given to Early Career Researchers at Cambridge University on 7 March 2016

1. Academic Social Networking Sites: a
rough guide for researchers
17 March 2016
Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building
Dr Danny Kingsley – Head of Scholarly Communication
@dannykay68

2. Why share?
• “There is no point at all in undertaking
research, and authoring papers and books
about it at great pains and over many months
or years, but then not doing your level best to
communicate your corpus of work to
professional and wider audiences.”
• Are you an academic hermit?
https://medium.com/advice-and-help-in-authoring-a-
phd-or-non-fiction/are-you-an-academic-hermit-
6d7ae5a0f16a#.4s3v6xbm1

3. This is one researcher’s list of things to
do when a paper comes out
http://svpow.com/2015/06/04/things-to-do-when-a-paper-comes-out-a-checklist/

4. Publishing a paper is just the beginning
of the process
don’t panic – there’s lots of help
PURPOSE SERVICE
Author disambiguation services ORCID and ResearcherID
Personal sites and social media Facebook, LinkedIn, own website, The
Conversation, blog, Institutional
Repository
Researcher Communities Academia / ResearchGate
Reference management tools with social
functions
Mendeley
Search engines with author profiles Google Scholar, Scopus
University author profile pages VIVO (to come)

5. How to share?
• The role of ego in academic profile services: Comparing Google
Scholar, ResearchGate, Mendeley, and ResearcherID
(4 March
2016)http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/03/04/aca
demic-profile-services-many-mirrors-and-faces-for-a-single-ego/

6. Tool to help you share your research
• Where do you fit?
https://innoscholcomm.typeform.com/to/Csvr7b?source=M
Jeroen Bosman (@jeroenbosman) and Bianca Kramer (@MsPhelps),

7. So, tell us a bit about yourself…
Managing your online presence

8. Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=4kW-r2QAAAAJ&hl=en

9. LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/profile/preview?locale=en_US&trk=prof-0-sb-preview-primary-button

10. The Conversation
https://theconversation.com/profiles/danny-kingsley-3258/articles

11. Twitter
https://twitter.com/dannykay68

12. Blog
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/

13. ResearchGate
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danny_Kingsley
(You need to be a member of ResearchGate to see other people’s profiles)

14. Publons
https://publons.com/search/?q=danny+kingsley

15. academia.edu
https://anu-au.academia.edu/DannyKingsley

16. So what’s it all about then?
What are we actually trying to
achieve with open access policies?

17. Open Access:
making scholarly
research outputs
freely available to
access online
Photo credit
Nic McPhee

18. Open access is ‘A Good Thing’
http://aoasg.org.au/

19. How do we achieve Open
Access?
The terms are confusing…

20. Green/gold/hybrid
• Gold Open Access
– Open access at the time of publication. Gold Open Access can be
considered to be 'born Open Access'. Fully Open Access journals
sometimes (but not always) charge a fee for publication.
• Green Open Access
– Making a version of work available in an open access repository. These
can be institutional such as the Cambridge Repository or subject
based, such as arXiv, PubMed Central, RePEc or SSRN. Green Open
Access can be considered to be 'secondary Open Access'.
• Hybrid journals
– Hybrid journals are subscription journals that charge an extra fee to
make a specific article Open Access while the remainder of the journal
remains behind a paywall. This type of Gold Open Access is always
accompanied by a fee.

21. Do publishers allow green?
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

22. Nature

23. Versions matter
• Submitted Version
– Sometimes called a pre-print. The version of the work
the author submits to the publisher
• Author Accepted Manuscript
– The author's final, peer reviewed and corrected
manuscript, usually created in Word or LaTeX.
Sometimes called a post-print.
• Version of Record
– The publisher’s pdf containing the style and design of
the journal

24. COPYRIGHT
TRANSFER
AGREEMENT

25. We look after this for you

26. Repository use
14 February 2016 – 15 March 2016

27. Warning Will Robinson
Spam!
Commercial, not academic company
Copyright
‘Users’ not ‘Academics’

28. Spam

29. A social networking site is NOT an
open access repository
• http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/12/a-social-networking-site-is-not-an-
open-access-repository/
• ResearchGate and Academia.edu are social
networking platforms whose primary aim is to
connect researchers with common interests.
• A Facebook or LinkedIn experience for the
research community.
• Both services are commercial companies.
Although Academia.edu has a “.edu” URL, it isn’t
run by a higher education institution. The domain
name was registered before the rules that would
now prohibit this use went into effect, and the
address was grandfathered in and later sold to
the company.

30. Copyright
ResearchGate

31. Copyright

32. Academics?

33. Academics?

34. Academics?

35. Academics?

36. What is ORCID?
Open Researcher and Contributor ID
Unique number assigned to every
researcher

37. ORCID
https://orcid.org/my-orcid
Note: Biography, Education and Work
History are provided by the user
orcid.org/0000-0002-3636-5939

38. Why would you want an ORCID ID?
• Disambiguate yourself from others with the same
name or name initials
• Required by publishers, repositories, and funders:
– Nature, Scopus, Wellcome Trust
– Starting Jan 2016: eLife, PLOS, and The Royal Society
– Coming in 2016: Science, AGU, EMBO, Hindawi and IEEE
• Will save you time when submitting your
grants/publications
• All your research outputs in one place:
– wherever you work, whatever you do, even if you change
your name

39. Connect your ORCID with Symplectic
1. Go to your profile: https://symplectic.admin.cam.ac.uk/
2. Click on the ORCID logo

40. An ORCID webpage will open
You can sign in or register for an ORCID
Option 2:
Register for a new
ORCID
Option 1:
Sign in with your existing
ORCID
Authorise

41. Resources
• Contact us:
– Office of Scholarly Communication info@osc.cam.ac.uk
– Research Data Management info@data.cam.ac.uk
– Open Access info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk
• Web information:
– About open access http://osc.cam.ac.uk/open-access
– Lots of links to blogs and discussion lists here:
http://osc.cam.ac.uk/about-scholarly-
communication/joining-scholarly-communication-
discussion
• Blog:
– Unlocking Research has regular items on open access
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/

42. Thanks
Dr Danny Kingsley
Head of Scholarly Communication
Email: dak45@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://osc.cam.ac.uk
Twitter: @dannykay68
Blog: https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Twitter

43. Instructions:
Download Google Scholar
publications and import into
Symplectic

44. In your Google Citations profile, highlight
the papers you want to export

45. Choose bibtex (or EndNote) format

46. In Symplectic, go to
Elements -> Publications -> Import
Click on the ‘+’ next
to ‘Publications’ to
see ‘Import’

47. Click on Browse
Select the correct file format depending on
what you chose to export.
Upload file

48. Choose citations.bib from
‘Downloads’

49. This screen gives an import overview
with new and/or matched articles

50. Click on the section you wish to review
Click on
the ‘+’

51. File(s) ready for inspection and choose
the upload ( all or individual)

52. I have an ORCID ID…
now what???
e.g. add / import / search

53. Searching for publications:
Click on ‘+ Add
works’ and select
‘Search & link’

54. Selecting where to search:
Click on the
hyperlink to search
in Europe PubMed
Central

55. New window will open - simply select which publications
you wish to add:
1. Click on publications
you wish to add to your
profile
2. Click ‘continue’

56. New window will open - simply select which publications
you wish to add:
Click ‘Send to
ORCID’

57. New window will open - simply select which publications
you wish to add: