Paper Accepted for OR12: Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-07-03

Summary:

“I’m pleased to say that a paper by myself and Jenny Delasalle, Academic Services Manager (Research) at the University of Warwick, which asked ‘Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?’ has been accepted for the Open Repositories conference, OR 2012. This paper, which is available from the University of Bath institutional repository, is based on work initially published on this blog. A blog post entitled ‘How Researchers Can Use Inbound Linking Strategies to Enhance Access to Their Papers’ published on 2 March 2012  described a Inbound linking strategy to get to the top listing on google fast. It occurred to me that my willingness to make use of researcher profiling services  services such as  Academia.edu, ResearcherID, Scopus, Researchergate, Mendeley, Microsoft Academic Search and Google Scholar Citations may have helped to enhance the visibility of my research papers which are hosted in the University of Bath repository.  The blog post went on to describe how I found that I was author of 15 of the most downloaded papers in the repository from my department. More recent investigations reveals that, as illustrated, I have the largest number of downloads of any author at the University of Bath! ... The paper explores other possible reasons for the high visibility of these papers – and one possibility worthy of further investigation is the provision of many papers in HTML formats and not just PDF and MS Word. However the use of popular researcher profiling services such as LinkedIn and academia.edu are felt to be worth recommending to researchers in order (a) to ensure that their research papers can be more easily found by their peers on these services and (b) so that links to the paper on their institutional repository can enhance the visibility to Google of the papers as well as enhancing the Google ranking of the repository itself...  I am quite happy to promote the use of such approaches since increased numbers of views, especially for the target communities, can help to both embed the ideas given in the papers by practitioners and increase the likelihood that the papers will be cited by other researchers. In my case I’m please that, according to Google Scholar Citations, my most cited papers have been cited 87, 67, 54 and 40 times... My co-author Jenny Delasalle has been investigating use of researcher profiling service at the University of Warwick, her host institution.  It was interesting that in Jenny’s research she found that a number of commercial publishers  encourage their authors to use services such as LinkedIn and Academic.edu to link to their papers hosted behind the publishers paywalls – and yet we are not seeing institutional views of the benefits of coordinated use of such services by their researchers. Institutional repository managers, research support staff and librarians could be prompting their institutions to make the most of these externally provided services, to enhance the visibility of their researchers’ work in institutional repositories. Surely it is time for the research community to develop inbound linking strategies to their research work, especially as this can be done so simply. Indeed the OR12 conference organisers have invited us to summarise the ideas described in a poster and a one-minute presentation. The ideas have been summarised using the Pixton cartoon generation tool in four strips.”

Link:

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/paper-accepted-for-or12/

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.comment oa.green oa.libraries oa.events oa.ir oa.metrics oa.usage oa.presentations oa.social_media oa.librarians oa.citations oa.academia.edu oa.blogs oa.linkedin oa.u.bath oa.mendeley oa.scopus oa.researcherid oa.google.scholoar oa.researchgate oa.repositories oa.google_scholar

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

07/03/2012, 15:56

Date published:

07/03/2012, 16:29