MyResearch: HumanitiesModule 4

Sharon RankinSean SwanickHelena Reddington

Learning Outcomes

As a result of today’s workshop, you will be able to:

Find professional associations, other networking opportunities, workshops, and conferences related to your needs.

Identify core journals and understand how journal impact may be determined.

Understand the changing nature of scholarly communication, especially the advent of electronic publishing and Open Access scholarship.

Maximize your personal scholarly impact by shaping your academic portfolio, and your digital scholarly footprint

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…because you never know who you might meet in the

elevator.

Elevator Speech

So, what are you working on?

Uhh…

Tips and Tricks

Keep it short and sweet (approximately 30 seconds)

Answer who you are, what you’re working on, and where you’re working on it

Know your audience – try to avoid jargon, or overly complicated language

Leave them wanting more – share your goals for the future

Try to sound natural – practice, practice, practice!

Elevator Speech

Hi, I'm Helena Reddington. Right now, I've been researching sacred groves in the southern Indian state Kerala called kaavus. In these small patches of forest, it is taboo to even remove a twig or lay an axe on any branch. Because of this, they have attracted the attention of environmentalists and NGOs as forms of traditional community resource management. I just started my first year of my PhD in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill, and for my South India class, I'm exploring how localized meanings of these forest shrines are changing due to globalization and economic liberalization. In the future, I'm interested in conducting research on this topic in Kerala.

My Elevator Speech

At a major conference in your field, you find yourself in an elevator with a distinguished scholar. She turns to you and says, “What are you working on?”

How do you respond?

Take 5 minutes to prepare your 30-second answer. Be ready to share your “speech” with the group.

Elevator Speech

A great way to “get your feet wet” in your research community.

Often report on research-in-progress.

Serve as platforms for networking and collaboration across institutions, countries, disciplines.

Conferences

Professional associations

Finding conferences

“Canada’s largest gathering of scholars across disciplines. Organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Congress brings together academics, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to share findings, refine ideas, and build partnerships that will help shape the Canada of tomorrow.”

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

McGill Library Conference Guide

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/reference/conferences#General

Finding conferences

Calls for Papers listing (maintained by Penn State)

H-net listservs

Calls for papers and listservs

http://www.conferencealerts.com/

Conference alerts

Search for papers/proceedings in your topic area.

Notice the conferences that research in your area is being presented at.

Places to search:

PapersFirst

ProceedingsFirst

Conference Proceedings in Web of Science (select Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH) --1990-present at bottom of search screen)

Searching conference proceedings and papers

Poster Sessions

http://www.tltc.ttu.edu/teach/TLTC%20Teaching%Poster.png

Poster creation

A selection of templates and themes are available for download from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital.

Guides to creating conference posters:

Creating Effective Poster Presentations | An Effective Poster. North Carolina State University.

Research Posters. University of Illinois Library

Presentations & Poster Sessions. Brandeis University Library

Presentations

What kind of presentation are you going to give?

http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/

“Talking Points: Presentation Principles and Techniques” by Andy Giesler

Make a few simple points

Death by PowerPoint

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/9-places-to-find-creative-commons.html#.UmBKIlMlXnc

Public Domain Images

• Subject heading = Business Presentations

• http://mcgill.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3ABusiness+presentations.&qt=hot_subject

Locating resources

Publishing Your Results

Choosing a Journal

Sharing Your Work

Are You Being Cited?

Which journal you choose can affect:

Getting a job Reappointment / Tenure Funding for scholars and institutions

Choosing a Journal

Quantitative metrics

Qualitative indicators Social media – alternative metrics

Choosing a Journal

Quantitative indicators

Scopus (1996-) Web of Science (1900-)

Metric: SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

- Looks at 4 years of data- Takes into account journal

reputation

Metric: Journal Impact Factor (JIF)

- Looks at 2 years of data- Takes into account number

of articles published per journal

Features:

- Use Journal Analytics to create comparison graphs

- View journal rankings by discipline on scimagojr.com

Features:

- Explore journal metrics through Journal Citation Reports

1. Find the top journal in your field by searching http://www.scimagojr.com

2. Use Scopus’s Journal Analyzer to compare one of the top English literature journals, PMLA, with one of the top chemistry journals, Chemical Reviews

Quantitative Metrics – for Journals

Quantitative Metrics

Some Questions to Consider:

Are there issues for the evaluation of humanities journals?

Are metrics trustworthy or reliable?

What personal methods do you use to evaluate a journal’s impact?

Metrics may be precise . . . But they aren’t perfect

Metrics are slow - based on traditional print/eprint publishing models

Metrics are narrow - journals only!

Metrics are relative - indexing community/vendor decides on what can be measured

Quantitative Metrics

Qualitative Indicators

Peer review

Coverage in bibliographic databases

Peer evaluation

Publisher

Audience

Scholarship profile

Peer Review

How can you tell if a journal is peer reviewed?

Impact publishing

East, John. “Ranking Journals in the Humanities.” Australian Academic and Research Libraries 37, no.1 (March 2006): 3-16.

Harley, Diane, et al. Final Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, 2010. See esp. chap. 6, “History Case Study.” http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc.

Further reading

Web of Science Citation Mapping Measuring citations qualitatively -

http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS5132R4.2/help/WOS/hp_citation_map.html

Qualitative Indicators

Social Media – an Alternative metric

New publishing model

http://www.altmetric.com/aboutexplorer.php

“tracks what people are saying

about papers online “

Traces all mentions back to the source

Does not track Facebook likes

or Twitter favourites

Altmetrics

Are You Being Cited?

Web of Science Times Cited Citation Report

Scopus Cited by H-Index: An H-Index of X indicates that X articles by that author

have been cited at least X times (since 1996).

Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.ca). Cited by number.

Yang, Kiduk, and Lokman I. Meho. “Citation Analysis: A Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.” Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 43, no.1 (2007): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301185

Generating a Citation Report in Web of Science

Generating a Citation Report in Web of Science

Finding an author’s h-index

Use Scopus

“An h Index for a group of selected documents or selected author(s) with an h Index of 12 means that out of the total number of documents selected to produce the graph, 12 of the documents have been cited at least 12 times. Published documents with fewer citations than h, in this case less then 12, are considered, but would not count in the h Index.” - Scopus

For more information about the h index, see Hirsch, J.E. "An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output." Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego.

Choose “Author search” tab

Click “View Citation Overview”

Then choose – “View citation overview”

“Open Access (OA) literature is digital,online, free of charge, and free of most

copyright and licensing restrictions”

- Peter Suber

Open access

publicly-funded research ought to be available to the public

OA ensures access to research without price barriers

increases the visibility of your research

satisfies funding agencies

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/openaccess/resources

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/openaccess (video)

Open access to scholarship

ensures access

increases visibility

full-text searchable

available to anyone with web access

satisfies the OA mandates of funding agencies

eScholarship@McGill

some publishers will require you to transfer copyright in some cases this will mean you can no longer teach using your publications, or even

build off of it for further research

there are tools to help you keep the rights you need SPARC author addendum Creative Commons licensing

Know your (copy)rights

Authors

retain your rights

reuse your work without restrictions

receive proper attribution for your work

make your work openly available through an open access repository

Publishers have a non-exclusive right to

publish and distribute your work, and receive financial return

are cited as journal of first publication

able to use the work in future formats, including collections

SPARC author addendum

4 different types of licensing

satisfies copyright concerns

can be used for scholarly and other creative works

if you blog – do you have a CC license?

specific rules for Canada – www.creativecommons.ca

Creative Commons

do you exist in the open web?

what happens when you Google your name?

where does the “professional” you live?

how much of your web presence do you control?

your web presence

CV Resources

McGill CaPS—Career Planning Service

• Examples of CVs for Academic and Non-Academic Jobs,

http://www.mcgill.ca/caps/students

Maintaining Your Academic Profile

Writing support - Curriculum Vitae - Academic Portfolio

Social Media

Library Subject Guide

Writing Tutorial Service. For students of all abilities.

http://www.mcgill.ca/mwc/tutorial-service

“We offer writing support in all subjects, and we work with both native and non-native English speakers. Tutors will show you how to organize your ideas, express yourself clearly, make convincing arguments, and reach the right audience. We will work with you at any stage of the writing process, from outlining to revision. Tutors will also teach you writing skills to help you identify common grammatical and structural errors.”

Writing support

Academic Portfolio

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An academic CV

Education Honours & Awards Research & Teaching Interests Experience Publications Conference Academic Association Affiliations & Service Languages References

http://www.careers.utoronto.ca/progServ/CH01/Creating_your_academic_cv_handout.pdf

Teaching / Scholarship / Service

• Purpose and focus of research• Your publications• Your grants/funding and your level of participation• Your conference presentations • Describe each item’s significance to your career, field,

department, and its relevance to your goals.• Minimize jargon

Contents

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/

Academia.edu: http://www.academia.edu/

Blogging, scholarly and otherwise

Twitter

The case of Steven Salaita

Think about your “digital tattoo”…

Academic social networking

Feedback

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