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

Digital 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!