“...the construction of online identities or persona is now an essential activity for the academic both from the perspective of university value and individual/career value.”**
A professional online presence is one of the best tools an academic can employ to increase the visibility and reach of their publications, to find potential collaborators, future co-authors, readers, jobs and other opportunities in academia.
Here are just a few tactics you should keep in mind when planning your scholarly identity strategy:
Or, put another way by the scholarly communications librarians at UC San Diego:
**Barbour & Marshall (2012). "The academic online: Constructing persona through the World Wide Web". http://dx.doi.org/10.5210%2Ffm.v0i0.3969
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AUrora | General |
Dryad | Biosciences |
GenBank | Gene Sequences |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility | Ecology |
Harvard Dataverse | General |
ICPSR | Social Sciences |
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity | Ecology |
Movebank | Animal Tracking |