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Are you a junior researcher, incoming grad student, or just starting out with research this summer? Here are some tips for creating your online presence as a scholar that maybe no one told you.
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The key components of an online presence (IMO) are:
âąsomewhere for people to find out that you exist and what you do
âąsomewhere for people to get to know you
âąsomewhere for people to read your work
âąsomewhere for people to find out that you exist and what you do
âąsomewhere for people to get to know you
âąsomewhere for people to read your work
What does âsomewhere for people to find out you exist & what you doâ entail?
Get an http://ORCid.org
Ask your mentor if you are/ can be listed on their webpage
Got a publication? Create a GoogleScholar page
Create an NCBI my bibliography account
Get an http://ORCid.org Ask your mentor if you are/ can be listed on their webpageGot a publication? Create a GoogleScholar pageCreate an NCBI my bibliography account
What about âsomewhere for people to get to know youâ? Well if youâre reading this, youâre probably already starting on that. Twitter is a great tool for networking. Find, follow, and get to know researchers you admire! Find out the hashtag(s) your field uses!
Another way to help people get to know you? Make your own website! There are lots of tools for doing this easily. If youâre work is at all collaborative or computational, I recommend getting yourself a GitHub account & then using their website builder too.
You might not need the last piece for a little while b/c good scholarship takes time, but soon youâll want somewhere for people to read your work. Find out if your fieldâs journals allow self-archiving of papers & ask about pre-prints. Add these too your website as you get them!
More tips, tricks, & suggestions in these slides from a presentation I gave for postdocs a few years ago
What did I miss? https://www.slideshare.net/EleanorMurray8/building-a-professional-web-presence
What did I miss? https://www.slideshare.net/EleanorMurray8/building-a-professional-web-presence
Another thing you can do now to make your life a bit easier later: if youâre writing a paper and have an idea about where you might submit it to, you can create an account on the journal(s)âa submission system today, so thereâs less info to input when it comes time to submit.
