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Sarah GoodierOpenUCT

Law Seminar

14 October 2014

Online Presence and You as a Digital Scholar

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THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE AND THE DIGITAL SCHOLAR

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Your online presence

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Do you know how you appear online?

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Consider

• What do you want your digital footprint to look like?

• What kind of online presence do you want?

• What do you have time to manage effectively?

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What do I want?What can I realistically

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THE RESEARCH CYCLE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

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Use the online space to support your research and teaching activities:

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Digital, networked and open scholarship

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TOOLS TO GET YOU STARTED

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To profile yourself and your work:• Google Scholar:

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To profile yourself and your work:

• Academia.edu:

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To make your work more accessible:• Publish in Open Access Journals:

– Improving the availability of your outputs

Is my research making an impact?

Can it be found online?Click here for full text access!

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Publish in open access journals

(as of 12 Oct 2014)

http://doaj.org/

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Publish in open access journals

http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.html

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To make your work more accessible:• Archive in a repository:

– Improving the availability of your outputs

Is my research making an impact?

Can it be found online?Click here for full text access!

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Archive in a repository

http://open.uct.ac.za

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Archive in a repository

http://open.uct.ac.za

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Archive in a repository

http://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/7496

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To expand your engagement broadly• Blog: http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/

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To expand your engagement broadly• Blog:

http://lawblogsa.com/

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To expand your engagement broadly

• Twitter:

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To expand your engagement broadly

• Twitter: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/02/academic-tweeters-your-suggestions-in-full/

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To expand your engagement broadly

• Twitter:

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Your Online Presence• Building into a digital (networked) you!

• What is your purpose in having/ expanding your online presence?

• What is your strategy to achieve an appropriate online presence?

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Thank you

• For more resources: – Try the OpenUCT Delicious bookmarks tagged ‘onlinepresence’:

http://www.delicious.com/openuct/onlinepresence– Check out OpenUCT’s Online Presence guide for academics: http://

openuct.uct.ac.za/article/academics-online-presence-guidelines-v2

• All screenshots used purely for illustrative purposes• Some slides used and/or adapted from: Laura Czerniewicz’s presentation ‘Academics' online presence - assessing & shaping visibility 2012’:

http://www.slideshare.net/laura_Cz/academics-online-presence-assessing-shaping-visibility-2012,

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Contact Sarah:sarah.goodier@uct.ac.za

@SarahGoodier@OpenExpl

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Contact OpenUCT:http://openuct.uct.ac.za

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