My webinar presentation for the ACS CINF Division on May 24th 2017 Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter or other related websites. However, despite the availability of many platforms for scientists to connect and share with their peers in the scientific community the majority do not make use of these tools, despite their promise and potential impact and influence on our careers. We are already being indexed and exposed on the internet via our publications, presentations and data and new “AltMetric scores” are being assigned to scientific publications as measures of popularity and, supposedly, of impact. We now have even more ways to contribute to science, to annotate and curate data, to “publish” in new ways, and many of these activities are as part of a growing crowdsourcing network. The stable of web-based platforms that can be used continues to expand but with only so much time available to share publications, presentations, data and activities how does a scientist shortcut their way to understanding what is available and the benefits of use? For over five years Antony Williams has been delivering presentations to scientists regarding how they can use freely available websites to help create an online presence. Over the years he has presented on LinkedIn for a professional CV, ResearchGate for sharing papers and research updates, FigShare for data, and a myriad of other tools for developing an online profile. Participating online, whether it be simply for career advancement or for wider exposure of your research, there are now a series of web applications that can provide a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community. This presentation will provide an overview of what is available and the potential benefits of investing a small amount of time in developing an online profile especially as an increasing number of potential employers and collaborators utilize the web to research scientists.

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and Data Proliferation for Scientists
using Online Networking Tools
Antony Williams
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National Center for Computational Toxicology
The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
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Who markets your work???
If not you, then who?
•“It's not the job of researchers to become
experts in public relations — that's why
universities have press offices, says Matt
Shipman, research communications lead at
North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
But he recommends scientists toot their
own horns as well. ”
• http://www.nature.com/news/kudos-promises-to-help-scientists-promote-their-papers-to-new-audiences-1.20346

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My Hopes for Today
• Encourage you in the “era of participation”
• Provide an overview of some tools available
• Share some stories, statistics and strategies
• Encourage you to “share for the sake of
community/science as well as for yourself”
• OUTCOMES
• You will claim an ORCiD
• You will invest ~2 hours per month on your profile
• You have a bigger “Impact” online….

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Scientists are Constantly
Evaluated Based on “Statistics”
•Research datasets
•Scientific software
•Publications – peer-reviewed and many others
•Posters and presentations at conferences
•Electronic theses and dissertations
•Performances in film and audio
•Other forms of research

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Branding: I am ChemConnector

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My Primary CV is my Blog

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ORCID – The Scientists SSN

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ORCiD as an Online CV

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The MOST BASIC Career
Networking Tool
http://www.linkedin.com/in/AntonyWilliams

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Can Also Function as an
Electronic CV

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Ability to Highlight Projects

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Manage Articles Here Too…

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Your Postings Get Networked
It’s All Networking,
Networking……..

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Ask for Recommendations

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Ask for “Endorsements”,
or get them…

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Instant Summary as a PDF

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Presentations

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Think about it…
• 100s if not 1000s of hours of research behind a paper.
How much work is the PUBLISHER going to do to make
sure people find out about your article?? How do you
find out about an article???
• Shouldn’t YOU and your CO-AUTHORS invest some
time in getting it out to the network???
• A presentation given to a small room of people has a
lifetime of “20-30 mins”. A presentation shared online
for all to see lives a lot longer. An article shared in the
network has a much wider audience.

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Sharing your works online

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Slideshare – Highly Accessed

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Slideshare – NOT Just Slides

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ResearchGate is Another Tool for
Networking and Citation Tracking

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ResearchGate

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Academia.edu
https://rsc.academia.edu/AntonyWilliams

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Book Chapters on Amazon

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Credit for Reviewing Papers?

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Research Paper Amplification
• Kudos connects papers to social media platforms such as
Twitter for amplification

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Explain

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A publication as a point-in-time
• From a publication how do you cite forward?
• to errata?
• to your later publications?
• to electronic notebook pages?
• to blog posts about your work?
• to other peoples related publications?
• to reinterpreted data you don’t publish?

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The Article…

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Claimed…

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Enriched…

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What about “Data Sharing”?

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Supplementary Data Access

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Alt-Metrics Manifesto
http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

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https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2668-4821

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AltMetric Scores and “Donuts”

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AltMetricIt Bookmarklet
https://www.altmetric.com/products/free-tools/bookmarklet/

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Google Scholar Tracks
Publications and Citations
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O2L8nh4AAAAJ

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Check your profile data

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What Next?
My Recommendations
• Register for an ORCID ID
• Enhance your LinkedIn profile
• Use Google Scholar Citations and curate
• Choose: ResearchGate or Academia.edu
• Use: Kudos and Publons
• Participate building your profile – share data,
papers, presentations, etc..

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Various Versions of This Talk
www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Email: williams.antony@epa.gov

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