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Twitter for scholars: How to share your research

Description: Do you want to tweet about your scholarly work but don’t know how? This 30-minute virtual workshop will provide a basic introduction to Twitter for scholarly communication. We will cover:

Why you should tweet about your work
Who your audience is
What you could tweet about as a scholar
When to tweet about your work, and
How to design a good tweet (or tweet thread)

Session objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Identify elements of a tweet that enhance visibility and garner Twitter engagement
Critique and revise a tweet

Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Time: 11:00am – 11:30amTime Zone:Pacific Time – US & Canada (change)

Student Journal Forum 2022

Call for Proposals: Student Journal Forum 2023

The Student Journal Forum 2023 invites proposals for virtual sessions to be held on February 23-24, 2023. Now in its 8th year, this online event is open to everyone but is targeted at post-secondary students in Canada who are involved with or considering starting a student journal.

Proposals for 10-minute presentations are enthusiastically welcomed by everyone with an interest in sharing information about student journals. We especially encourage students to share their experiences, obstacles, and observations. Suggested topics for presentations could be:

Starting up a new journal
Attracting submissions
Recruiting and training peer reviewers
Managing technical processes (e.g. producing galley files, publishing platforms, copyediting)
Promoting your journal
Equity and inclusion in journal publishing
Following ethical publishing practices
Enhancing discoverability for your journal, including applying for inclusion in the DOAJ and other indexes

For a list of sessions at previous Student Journal Forums see the links on each of the forum events pages.

Ready to submit your proposal? Complete the online submission form or download a template of the submission form to review the proposal criteria or work on your proposal offline. The Forum organizing committee will review each proposal and feedback will be provided.

Important dates

CFP submission deadline: October 31, 2022
Acceptance Notifications: Mid-November, 2022
Program Published: December 2022
Student Journal Forum: February 23 & 24, 2023

Questions?

Contact Sarah Severson, Co-Chair of the SJF forum at library.publishing@ualberta.ca for more information.

Sign up for Forum updates

Join the listserv for student journal editors in Canada to receive news and updates about the Student Journal Forum 2023 and other events for editors. You can also initiate a discussion and make connections with fellow editors via the listserv.

Subscribe to the listserv or contact Sarah Forbes to be added.

Join the conversation on Twitter

Follow @CanadaSJF

Introduction to Altmetric Explorer – Understanding Immediate Visibility of Publications

October 3, 2022

Featuring a spotlight on the extensive attention generated by open access publications.

Altmetric Explorer is an online tool that monitors attention on the web beyond traditional citations for digitally available research publications. It captures mentions for all types of research outputs, including theses and dissertations, datasets, software and code, media files, etc.

The training session will be led by Patty Smith of Altmetric. This hour-long session will introduce you to the platform and its features, and how individual researchers can use the platform to illustrate the reach of their work alongside traditional citation-based metrics. In celebration of Open Access Week 2022, we will highlight the wide reach of open access publications in addition to a general introduction. There will be plenty of time for questions.

Related LibGuide: Alternative Metrics by Emily Nickerson

What is Altmetric Explorer?

Altmetrics, in the broader sense, are a way to measure impact by capturing online mentions of research outputs such as papers and datasets. Altmetric Explorer, Plum Analytics and Impactstory are some popular altmetrics tools, and the Library has recently purchased a subscription to Altmetric Explorer.

Using Altmetric Explorer to improve visibility of your work?

Altmetric Explorer is an online tool that searches the web for “online attention” of research outputs. It captures the attention for all types of research outputs including theses and dissertations, datasets, software and code, media files, etc. Altmetric Explorer pulls data from:

Public policy documents
Mainstream media
Post-publication peer-review platforms (Pubpeer and Publons)
Wikipedia
Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc)
Multimedia platforms (YouTube, Stack Overflow, etc)
Patents
Open Syllabus Project
Blogs & Research Highlights (Faculty Opinions)
Online reference managers (Mendeley)

The overall attention accumulates into an algorithm that calculates the Altmetric Score and provides a visualization (the “Altmetric donut“).

Altmetric Explorer is a powerful tool that can provide contextual information when documenting the impact of your work in CVs, tenure & promotion dossiers, or grant and job applications. Not only does it provide insight into the attention your work receives, it also closes a gap where traditional metrics tend to be in the dark, by covering immediate attention.

The tool helps to answer questions about your output such as “Was my work covered by any news outlets?” – “Are other researchers commenting on my work?” – “Which countries are looking at my publications?” – “Was any of my scientific output cited in any policy documents or patents?” or “How does attention of my open access publications compare to those published in closed access?”.

As an additional feature, the Altmetric Score will be displayed for all content in our repository UVicSpace.

Learn more through our libguide

Attend one of our upcoming workshops!

Tuesday, October 25 from 1 – 2pm
Thursday, October 27 from 11am – 12pm

SCOPUS – Introductory and Advanced Workshops

October 3, 2022

What is SCOPUS?

Scopus (Elsevier) is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus provides a comprehensive overview of worldwide research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

UVic Libraries is hosting two workshop in October for the campus community to learn more about SCOPUS.

SCOPUS 101

With over 88 million records indexed, Scopus is the world’s largest curated abstract and citation database. As a subscriber to Scopus, researchers and administrators at the University of Victoria have access to this database to support their research activities. In this introductory Scopus training session, we will cover the foundations of the data set, how to build simple and complex search queries, setting up alerts for new research, and exporting and analyzing search results.

SCOPUS for Bibliometrics In-Person

In addition to supporting researchers in finding the right research when they need it, the Scopus database can enable powerful research analyses and intelligence. In this workshop, we will cover the foundations of using Scopus for bibliometric analyses, including: data sources & analytical potential, query generation, co-author network mapping, measurement of research, and uptake of research within and outside of the Academy.

The Ampersand – UVic Libraries newsletter

August 23, 2022

The Ampersand is a bi-monthly newsletter of UVic Libraries that provides information throughout the academic year on library special events, celebrations, fundraising efforts, and library developments. Each issue contains original stories about our digital collections and archives, librarian research projects and initiatives, or interviews with donors and library staff.

Image advertising The Ampersand – Libraries bi-monthly newsletter.

The archives for The Ampersand can be found at: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/13469

Perspectives on International Digital Scholarship Collaborations During a Global Pandemic

Date: June 1, 2022

Time: 1 pm PT/MST, 2 pm MDT, 3 pm CT, 4 pm ET

Registration Link: ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/…

Perspectives on International Digital Scholarship Collaborations During a Global Pandemic

Description

PRESENTATION 1:
Title: Preserving International Relationships & Items in a Time of Covid

Dr. J. Matthew Huculak, Head of Advanced Research Services & Digital Scholarship, University of Victoria Libraries

Description: The Narrative Art Project pairs together Holocaust Survivors and graphic artists from across the world in order to co-create a graphic novel that provides witness to the Survivors’ experiences. This talk will address the promises and challenges of working on this international project, including issues of building capacity, digitization, working remotely, and training stakeholders in best practices for preservation and access.

PRESENTATION 2:

Title: International Collaboration in Interesting Times: Salzburg, Skype, and Stefan Zweig, Amanda M. Shepp, MLS, Coordinator of Special Collections & Archives, Daniel A. Reed Library, The State University of New York at Fredonia

This presentation will focus on the agreement between the Zweig Digital project team from the Salzburg Literature Archive and the Special Collections & Archives Division of SUNY Fredonia’s Daniel A. Reed Library to collaborate on a massive 40-year update to the arrangement, description, and finding aid of Fredonia’s renowned Stefan Zweig Collection, along with its complete digitization.

Beyond BPCs – Cambridge University Press: Flip it Open

For anyone wishing to publish an open access (OA) scholarly monograph, the book processing charges (BPCs) typically charged by publishers can be an obstacle. In this blog series, we will provide an overview of alternative publishing funding models (Subscribe to Open) for open access monographs in which UVic Libraries participate. The range of innovative approaches to sustainable funding of OA books highlighted here all have in common that authors are freed from costly publishing fees.

Cambridge University Press’ (CUP) pilot Flip it Open converts (“flips”) books from traditional pay-for-access content to Open Access. In order for a book to be flipped, all sales of the regular edition (e-books and print, trade and library sales, even translation rights) add to the sum that has to be met to make its flip to Subscribe to Open publishing model sustainable. Once a certain threshold is reached, a new, specific OA edition of that title will be published. Titles with the highest demand will automatically see an OA published version first.

The editorial processes and marketing efforts for the titles in the CUP’s pilot follow the same quality standards as conventional monographs, as these open access titles are initially published as traditional editions.

By default, all Flip It Open titles are released under a CC-BY license and they will be included in established discovery indexes so that they receive the widest possible visibility and distribution.

If you have any questions related to the program, please contact the Office of Scholarly Communication.

Introducing Altmetric Explorer

February 28, 2022

Have you ever wondered what kind of attention your recently published paper got in the academic community, before the first citations occurred in other literature? Or what coverage it received outside academia without you noticing? You may not have missed a tweet, but what about media, blogs, or policy papers that mention your publication? In fact, you may be aware of some buzz around your latest publication on a hot topic – but could you ever present that in a serious way in your current research funding proposal? And can something like that even be captured in a structured way, or even measured?

The answer is yes – look no further! We have just the tool for you!

Starting in 2022, UVic Libraries is providing access to Altmetric Explorer, which serves exactly these purposes (and many more).