Staying visible – how to promote your academic work...
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Staying visible – how to promote your academic work online
Christian NawrothLeibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology
Institute of Behavioural Physiology
Dummerstorf, Germany
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Conferences: cancelledSeminar series: cancelledWorkshops: cancelled
Less opportunity to showcase your work!
Showcase it online!
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Academic perspective Get that competitive edge and establish your brand!
Personal perspective Give your work the attention it deserves!
Societal perspectiveMake publicly funded research visible!
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Promote your
research Promote yourself
Be proactive
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Make your research more visible!
• Go open access!
• Pre-print!
• Do outreach (press releases/blogs/etc)!
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Gold (Publishing in OA Journals)• Article Processing Fees expensive
But wait: http://corinalogan.com/journals.html
• Full OA (recommended)• Hybrid (not recommended)
Green (Self-Archiving)• No APCs everyone can do this!http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php
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• Early feedback• Higher citation count• Wider dissemination at an
early stage
https://www.biorxiv.org/https://osf.io/preprints/
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Peer-review process can take months to years, so publishing pre-prints is a way to make sure that other researchers have access to my protocol and data
Maximising resourcesBetter implementation of 3Rs
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Most of our research is publicly supported through taxes imperative to make findings accessible to the public
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You have some interesting findings? File a press release!
You started a new exciting project? File a press release!
You can’t/aren’t allowed to do a press release? Write a blogpost!
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But who will publish this?
https://medium.com/https://aeon.co/https://theconversation.com/uk
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Check your impact!• Increase of downloads • Linked to citation count• https://www.altmetric.com/
• https://publons.com/• https://info.growkudos.com/
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Make yourself more visible!
• Create your own webpage!
• Create your Google Scholar and Orcid accounts!
• Use Social Media!
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Highlight your academic niche!
Self-archive your publications (green OA)!
Have a digital CV!
Include a blog!
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https://www.dsquintana.blog/free-website-in-r-easy/
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https://scholar.google.com/
• Automatically updated• Key metrics• Citation count• Digital Publist
https://orcid.org/
• Unique identifier• Can be linked to publications
and posters• Digital Full CV
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What can I get out of social media?
Information (papers, jobs, grants) Networking (#conference) Shared experience Advertise your work
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https://twitter.com/GoatsThatStare/status/1097467739684433920
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https://t4scientists.com/http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001535http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/08/23/social-media-as-a-scientist-a-very-quick-guide/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/a-z-social-media
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Be proactive!
• Get organised!
• Initiate!
• Be bold!
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You can only act proactively if you are not chased by your tasks!
Confirm and decline invitations strategically Stay on top of your most important resource: time Use progress charts
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Use short- and long-term to-do lists
https://asana.com/https://trello.com/https://todoist.com/
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Initiate - Don’t expect others to solve your problems
Launch a journal club
Organise a workshop or a webinar
Take over roles in scientific societies
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Be bold
Sign up for public talkshttps://www.skypeascientist.com/https://pintofscience.com/
You have a talk ready? Don’t hesitate to ask people if you can present it at their seminar
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And don’t forget to post animal gifs on Twitter!
Thank you!