Science intelligence and web tools for communicationKatarina Evengård 2012

BlogsMany blogs today focus on science!

• Forskarbloggen (SLU)

Blog portals for academic blogs (wide subject area coverage)

• ScienceBlogs

• Focus on Lund University (blogs by researchers and students)

Social networkingFocus:

• being visible in your research community

• networking/exchanging ideas with other scholars

• ResearchGate

• Nature network

• Academia.edu

• LinkedIn

Social bookmarkingAllows users to:

• bookmark items on the web, create own library or link collection

• access bookmarks from any computer

• share bookmarks with others

• find new resources through other user’s bookmarks

• being visible, get in contact with other researchers

Some social bookmarking sites:

• Delicious (general)

• CiteULike (academic)

• Mendeley (academic)

Creative Commons provides resources that you can legally copy, modify and reuse

It also provides a tool for managing your own copyright

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Licences

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Attribution – attribute the author

Noncommercial – no commercial use

No Derivative Works – no changes allowed

ShareAlike – changes allowed, but only if you put the new work under the same licence

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Licences

More accommodating

More restrictive

Attribution

Attribution-Noncommercial

Attribution-ShareAlike

Attribution-NoDerivatives

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Share and use• Slideshare

Upload and share your presentations - and find ones to use yourself!

• Flickr

• Find images that you are allowed to use in your work (check the Creative commons license!)

• http://search.creativecommons.org/

RSS feeds

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RSS feeds to Outlook

Information about RSS and how you can add RSS feeds to Outlook.

Other ways to manage feeds

• Google reader

• Netvibes

Twitter• “Using Twitter in university research, teaching

and impact activities - A guide for academics and Researchers”

• Follow other people and sources and build up an instant, personalized Twitter feed that meets your full range of interests.

This presentation is built on the slideshows Creative Commons in the Classroom (CC-license BY-NC ) and Creative Commons For Educators (CC-licence BY ) by Jessica Coates and Creative Commons License Basics 2010 by Sue Gallaway (CC-licence BY )