Barbara Meyers Ford provides a foundation of what is going on in Social Media for scholarly publishers. Her panel includes Darrell Gunter of Gunter Media Group and Bill Jackson Assistant Professor, Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics of Medical College of Wisconsin
2. Types of Social Media
Social Networking
Facebook, Twitter + 196 more
Online Communities
Support researchers across a number of
different disciplines = 24+ websites providing
places to share and track research
3. Online Communities
Academia.edu, started in 2008 = “growing
community of ~ 2.5 million academics
Yammer (launched in 2008) = freemium social
network service; sold to Microsoft in 2012. Used
for private communication within organizations
or between organizational members and pre-
designated groups, making it an example
of enterprise social software.
4. Data Sharing
DataCite, formed end of 2009, with goals:
“To establish easier access to research data on
the Internet;
“ Increase acceptance of research data as
legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly
record, [and] support data archiving that will
permit results to be verified and repurposed for
future study.”
Source: DataCite website:
http://datacite.org/whatisdatacite
5. Social Bookmarking in STM
CiteULike was launched Nov 2004,
sponsored by Springer since Aug 2008
focuses on needs of researchers:
assign reading priority
make notes to an article
label an article as ‘private’
upload a file assigned to an entry
6. Social Bookmarking in Science
3 Connotea, developed by the Nature
Publishing Group, went online December
2004 ~ based on Delicious but with
greater range of functions to better serve
unique requirements of academics
essential functions integrated in ‘My Library’
toolbox to create groups, label resources, be
identified as the author of an article
7. Social Bookmarking in Science
BibSonomy, aims to integrate the features of
bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented
publication management. Opened in 2006, it
distinguishes between web link and publication
book marks. Posts are stored in the BibTex
format and offered by the KDE group of the
University of Kassel, the DMIR group of the
University of Würzburg, and the L3S Research
Center, Germany.
8. Major Data Sharing Sites
BioMart
45 databases on 4 continents;
designed to be data agnostic and platform
independent, such that existing databases can
easily be incorporated
FigShare
a repository where users can make all of their
research outputs available in
a citable, sharable and discoverable manner.
9. Data Sharing Sites (continued)
BioSharing.org
works to register well-constituted efforts
developing standards for describing and
sharing biosciences experiments, ensuring
these resources are informative and
discoverable, monitoring their:
development, evolution and integration;
implementation and use in databases; and
adoption by data policies by funders and journals.
10. Social Bookmarking in Science
Source:
“Social Bookmarking in STM: Putting Services
to the Acid Test.” Reher, Sabrina; Haustein,
Stefanie. ProQuest Online 34, 6 (Nov/Dec
2010): 34-42.