Your Online Presence - Further Resources
Introduction | Prep | Activity | Further Resources
Make yourself easy to find
- ORCID Links to an external site. - An identifier that distinguishes your work from others who may share a similar name or credentials. Create one and make sure that it is associated with your publications.
- Create websites, blogs, portfolios, online exhibits, long-form born-digital scholarship, and more using CreateUK Links to an external site..
Control your data - privacy and information security
- Privacy: Electronic Frontier Foundation issues page Links to an external site. - a set of topics and tools to help you control how you are tracked and surveilled online
- Practical Internet Privacy Links to an external site. - A presentation with linked resources from librarian-activist Jessamyn West.
- How to curate your digital identity Links to an external site., from The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015 - tips on developing your online persona
Design your "brand" and connect with your audience
- Ten Tips for Tweeting Your Research Links to an external site., from Nature Index, 2019
- Personal Branding for Academics Links to an external site., by Stylish Academic managing editor Tee Ola, 2018
- Branding Yourself As An Academic Links to an external site., from Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017
- Academic Outrage: When The Culture Wars Go Digital
Links to an external site., by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Links to an external site., 2017
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, McMillan Cottom offers advice on being an “academic micro-celebrity” for scholars who “violate the assumptions of expertise by being a woman, or gender-queer, or brown or black or working in a language other than English”
- How Academics and Researchers Can Get More Out of Social Media Links to an external site., from Harvard Business Review, 2016
- Build your academic brand, because being brilliant doesn’t cut it any more
Links to an external site., from Times Higher Education, 2016
Measure your impact
- Research Impact Metrics Links to an external site. - a guide for using bibliographic metrics and alt-metrics to assess the impact of your scholarship, and tools for author disambiguation
- Sample tenure dossier Links to an external site. - Harvard Professor of English Ryan Cordell's statements of philosophy for teaching, research, and service
- academic social media measure impact (Google search) Links to an external site. - Current discussions on this evolving topic
University of Kentucky affiliates:
- Post your scholarly work or data in UKnowledge Links to an external site., the University of Kentucky's open access repository. The author dashboard provides metrics such as the number of times your work is downloaded and where your work is being read.
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