by crauter | Jul 18, 2014 | Publishing, Research Impact, Research News
Many academics have taken up blogging with enthusiasm as a way of sharing and promoting their research online or as a more reflective way of working. For others, the idea of blogging is an addition to a heavy workload and comes with anxiety about public scrutiny and...
by crauter | Feb 24, 2014 | Research Impact
The growth of interest in altmetrics has shown no sign of slowing this year. There was an excellent webinar yesterday from the Elsevier Library Connect team – it was aimed at librarians (“Librarians & Altmetrics”) but the first presentation by...
by crauter | Feb 19, 2014 | Library Resources for Research, Research Impact
We are re-running our session on “Raising your research profile” as part of the university’s Postgraduate Research programme on Thurs 20th Feb. This time we only have an hour to pitch options for boosting your online presence and maximizing access to...
by crauter | Feb 4, 2014 | Library Resources for Research, Research Impact
The Scopus author profile has been redesigned to help authors to give more prominence to their work. Your H index, citations and number of documents are prominent along with a Follow this author button to allow people to keep up with the new work you publish. This is...
by crauter | Dec 20, 2013 | Publishing, Research Impact
The publisher Elsevier has created a storm recently by issuing takedown notices to academics who have posted articles from Elsevier journals onto the academic network Academia.edu. The issue has been a hot topic on Twitter and on the blogs – for example articles...
by crauter | Nov 7, 2013 | Research Funding, Research Impact
RIOXX is a new project aimed at making it easier to track research outputs and attribute them accurately to funding streams. Better metadata – information about the books, papers and articles produced by researchers – is needed to make tracking research...
