Build your Researcher Profile

CRICOS No. 00213J

Session progress:

• Why build your Researcher Profile• Icebreaker: Google yourself• How to build your Researcher Profile:

o Bronze: Get started nowo Silver: Build content graduallyo Gold: Enhance further

• Background and demo of the tools• Hands-on and questions

Why?

• To promote research and teaching activities• To improve your chance of being cited• To ensure correct attribution• To guarantee credit in research assessments• To find new collaborators• To find new funding sources

Library Guide:http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/researcher_profile

Google Yourself

“firstname lastname”

• Look at the first page of hits• What is you and what is not• Which ‘persona’ is being represented• What is inaccurate, out of date• What is missing• What should you ‘retire’

* Researcher faints at the thought of another author profile.

You have a time today to Go for Bronze

Put aside time in coming weeks to Go for Silver

By the end of semester start working to Go for Gold

Bronze

The essentials now

• Get your staff profile: 2 Minutes• Upload publications to ePrints: 30 Minutes• Get an ORCID id: 1 minute• Start a Google Scholar profile: 15 Minutes• Enhance your Email signature: 5 Minutes

Staff profile: # 1 in Google

http://staff.qut.edu.au

QUT ePrints• Get your publications in as soon as possible• Visible via the national search interface, Trove

• Open to the world via Google Scholar

2 minute deposit:

Create an ORCID• Create an ORCID and connect it to qut.• Add it to manuscripts, grant application, and profiles

Google Scholar• Create a Profile, claim your publications

Update your email signature

• Increase your visibility and represents youractivity as a researcher / QUT staff member. Add:o QUT Staff Profile url or other staff pageo QUT ePrints urlo ORCiDo Other profileso Linked Ino Google Scholar

Silver

Build up over time gradually

• Enhance your staff profile• Enhance your ORCID profile• Consider other networking platforms• Consider social media tools

LinkedIn

Twitter: Tweet your ePrintsAll items in QUT ePrints have sharing options, including to:

• Twitter• Facebook• Google• LinkedIn• WordPress

Twitter: From tweet to downloads

• 1 in 4 tweets - directly about your work

• 1 tweet – a reply to someone you follow

• 1 tweet - a link to something useful

• 1 tweet - a retweet

• Ask questions as well as making statements

• Best when it’s both professional & personal

• The tone mimics face to face interaction (not print)

• The more people tweet, the bigger their network

Useful feeds: @researchwhisper @thesiswhisperer@ConversationEDU @engineering #phdchat #ecrchat

Twitter: Tips: Start lurking

Websites and blogs

QUT Project – research websiteshttps://qa-research.qut.edu.au/Watch this space…….

Gold

Top level opportunities

• Consider writing for The Conversation

• Register with the Expert Guide• Share your data• Write a lay summary • Claim credit for your reviewing work• Post your work to Australian Policy Online

http://theconversation.com

Outcomes

“As a first time Conversation author, the results[49,000+ readers] far exceeded my expectations.”

• Talk back show • Interviews on ABC and commercial Radio• TV Breakfast interview

Results from the article and media interviews

• Very happy funding partners, approaches from new possible partners• Exceeding the requirements for dissemination of the research• Invitation to submit to a relevant journal and to review an article for another• Invitation to present at a conference• A spike in QUT e-prints downloads

“It has really lifted my spirits and enthusiasm for this year.” – Dr Wendy Miller

Share your data

Make it visible

http://figshare.com

http://researchdatafinder.qut.edu.au

Promote to policy makers

Reach government, NGOs, Education, Industry and the Media

• DOIs = easy discovery, permanent links, citations

• 17,000 newsletter subscribers = research pushed to readers

• 6,000 Twitter followers = quick promotion

Write a lay summary

Kudos• Widen your audience• Toolkit to translate research into plain language• Link to additional materials• Metrics• Free

Get credit for your review work

Altmetric Explorer

Now you:

• Get an ORCiD & link it to QUT systems

• Update your QUT staff Profile

• Add your publications to ePrints

• Create a Google Scholar profile

• Update your email signature

• Find and follow a Tweeter you admire

• Pitch an article to the Conversation