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19 May 2016
Becoming a digital scholarUniversity of Buckingham
Professor Rhona SharpeOxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development
Writing workshops
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The Editor’s perspective: Targeting a journal
New objectives
• Make informed decisions about using networked technologies
• Communicate your research to a wider audience
• Increase the impact of your work and potentially increase citations
• Make an active and positive contribution to your developing digital footprint
Scholarship
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Scholarship
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Scholarship
H818: The networked practitioner
Open Studio, multimedia posters, virtual conference, badges, Cloudworks . . . beyond
Digital scholarship
Digital Networked Open
Author 1 bookCo-editor 2 booksEditor for 3 journals10 book chapters8 referred journal papers26 reports12 invited keynotes20+ conference papers16 funded research projectsReviewer for 10+ journalsReviewer for international grants & awards
h-index of 16
Chair a network of 2000 researchers
Author for OER and (M)OOCs
Editor for an open online journal
Member of virtual project steering groups
Website manager for project dissemination
Online tutor and guest lecturer
I´m a PhD student … in a super formal, controlled course structure, with all the traditional barriers that validate or not my progress. … … So, the solution I found was engaging with the academic community, as much as I can, through Blogs, Moocs (from respected universities), Twitter, FB, LinkId and networks like Academia, etc. They are my community, my peers, my tutors and they are from different disciplines, helping me with different perspectives and with that enrich my research.
Andreana commenting on ‘The control of your network’, EdTechie blog, 8 February 2016
Possible definitions of digital scholarship
1. Changes in scholarly practices brought about by digital and networked technologies.
2. Scholarly practices that take place in a digital, networked and open world
3. Enriching research perspectives by engaging with a community of scholars
Your turn to introduce yourselves
Collect a name in every squareYou can use the same name twiceBut only one name per square
Collect examples of digital scholarly practices
When you have a name in every square – shout ‘Bingo’!
Examples of digital scholarship
In groupsShare the examples of digital scholarly practices that you collected. Which were the most common? Any that are new to you?
Be prepared to feedback1. Examples of digital scholarly practices that
you have in your groups2. And examples that you would like to know
more about.
Digital, networked, open
Digital, networked, open
Open access publishingOpen educational resourcesOpen source softwareDigital scholarly profilesResearch communicationOnline research toolsReference managementPersonal learning networksDigital publishing models
Open dataOpen coursesLazy webSocial citationOnline conferencesMeasuring impactDigital data analysisOpen peer reviewOpen licensing
What kind of digital scholar are you?
Openness options
1. I will only publish in open access journals2. I will share all learning material that I create
and own openly online, as soon as I create it.
3. I release some resources openly if it’s not too much extra work
4. I have concerns about intellectual property and releasing my content openly
Unit 2, The Networked Practitioner, Open University
‘Open access' aims to make the findings of academic research available electronically, immediately, without charge and free from most copyright or licensing restrictions.
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/rsrch/oa/
Open access publishing
Claims of open access publishing
Increases visibility and opportunities for use Increases citations and personal impact
Claims of traditional publishing
What are the advantages and disadvantages of open access publishing?
societyauthors
funders
students
publisherslibraries
Benefits of open access publishing
• Access to information from anywhere• Increased visibility of researchResearchers
• Increased return on investment• Increased visibility
Funding agencies
• Increased access for target audience• Financially more attractiveLibraries
• Unrestricted access to materials• Equality of learning
Teachers and students
• Access to knowledge• Access to publically funded research
Citizens and society
• Enhanced and accelerated research cycleScience
Spot the difference
Spot the difference
Types of open access publishing
Gold – publisher providers open accessGreen – self-archiving in open repositoriesHybrid – authors charged a fee for open access
Fair OA – authors pay article processing fees – if they can.
Open Access and the REF
Which publications have to be available on Open Access?
Journal articles
Conference articles (with an ISSN)
Books & book
chapters
Open access research for the REF
Journal articles and conference proceedings must be available in an open-access form to be eligible for the next REF.
In practice, this means that these outputs must be uploaded to an institutional or subject repository.
This requirement will apply to journal articles and conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1 April 2016” Now!
True or false?
Publishing your work open access increases citations. sparceurope.org/oaca_table/
It is more expensive to publish open access doaj.org/
You have less rights if you publish open access https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Open access journals lack quality and prestige altmetrics.org/manifesto/
Inspired by ‘Take control of your Phd journey: learn about open access publishing’, Arctic University of Norway, Slideshare
Openness options
1. I will only publish in open access journals2. I will share all learning material that I create
and own openly online, as soon as I create it.
3. I release some resources openly if it’s not too much extra work
4. I have concerns about intellectual property and releasing my content openly
Unit 2, The Networked Practitioner, Open University
NEW FORMS OF WRITING AND PUBLISHING
Publication as a process
– as well as a product
Your experiences
A. I have published in academic journalsB. I have a paper in preparationC. I have an idea for a paper
article
idea
article
keynotes
editing
reviewing
projects
reading
reports
chapters
conferences
idea
article
idea
“I write to develop my ideas”
“I publish to share my ideas”
From gestation to publication
In pressIn
submission
In preparation
In gestation
Opportunities to publish
proposal
lit review
abstract
poster
book review
Digital tools for writing
Digital tools for boundary management
Scholarly communication: blogs
Audience
Community
Persistence!
Scholarly communication: Twitter
Web links
Live tweeting
Tweetchats
#hashtags
communities
Scholarly communication: website
Promotion
Consistency
Authorship
Referencing
Scholarly communication: (M)OOCs
Public engagement in research
Sharing scholarly outputs
Choose one scholarly output to share 1. Check you have permission to publish2. Select a place to store3. Choose an appropriate Creative Commons License4. Add tags or keywords to aid discoverability5. Choose a place to share with hashtag #digitalscholar
proposal
lit review
abstract
poster
book review
1. Check you have permission
If it has been previously published, check you have permission to share online. (note: being the author is not sufficient)
If it has not been previously published, check it is all your own e.g. images, figures.
Check the copyright restrictions on any component parts.
2. Select a place to store
Think about format e.g. Slideshare / Prezi for presentations, Vimeo for videos.
Think about community e.g. ResearchGate or LinkedIn
3. Choose a Creative Commons license
Decide if you want to allow
- Redistribution- Versioning- Commercial use
4. Choose keywords or tags
5. Choose where to share
Think about audience
E.g, Twitter, Facebook, community groups
6. Invite friends to comment and share
Well done!