Subject Guides: Research Impact: Your Scholarly Identity

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Subjects: Biological Sciences, Environment, Forestry, Mathematics, Natural Resources, Plant Sciences, Statistics, Sustainability, Wildlife & Zoology

Creating and Maintaining Your Profile

“...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:

•Understand the purpose/aim of the different profile platforms

•User persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI, etc.) to disambiguate yourself and your work

•Publish Open Access, including your 'non-traditional' research outputs (programming code, presentations, posters, research data, etc.)

•Post pre- and post-prints to appropriate venues

•Make social media engagement a habit

•Perform regularly scheduled maintenance on your profiles

Or, put another way by the scholarly communications librarians at UC San Diego:

Do what you can do - Start small and build as you have time. Have a plan and tend your online presence.
Build your network - Collect and link to your content and media. Engage and respond to others online.
Be Consistent! - Keep things current (best to link to repositories as opposed to updating multiple CVs).
Monitor yourself - Check in often, make adjustments, delete things that you are no longer updating.
Track your impact - follow your metrics, altmetrics, and tell your story.

**Barbour & Marshall (2012). "The academic online: Constructing persona through the World Wide Web". http://dx.doi.org/10.5210%2Ffm.v0i0.3969

Sherpa/Romeo
Use this database to determine if your publisher allows you to deposit one of the varying forms of your article to Open Access repositories.
AUrora: Auburn University Institutional Repository
AUrora is an open-access repository of research and scholarly works by Auburn University faculty members. The documents here include pre- and post-prints of research journal articles and slide stacks, notes, and posters from conference presentations.
Disciplinary Repositories
A list of OA disciplinary repositories (also called central or subject repositories). Unless otherwise noted, they accept relevant deposits regardless of the author's institutional affiliation.
figshare
SlideShare
Github

**Selected Data Repositories**
Repository Name	Subject Area
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