Tell Your Story - Impact & Engagement: Past Workshops
Graduate Workshops
Introduction to Scholarly Publishing
Identify “predatory journals,” understand author rights, find journal copyright policies, negotiate your rights during submission and acceptance, understand Open Access (OA) types, understand OA benefits, find journals in your field, and potentially secure funding when publishing in an OA journal.
Introduction to Online Scholarly Presence
LinkedIn, ORCID, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Google Scholar Profile. Learn how to choose, create, link together, and maintain your unique author identifier and profile(s) to ensure you get credit for your work and are as visible as possible. Metrics on certain platforms also explained.
Deciphering the Meaning behind Research Impact Metrics
Learn about the many purposes and interpretations of research impact metrics, such as the Journal Impact Factor, the author h-index, citation counts, field-normalized citation metrics, altmetrics, usage statistics, and many more! You’ll learn where to find them, how to use them to your advantage, and how to avoid common mistakes.
Promoting your Scholarly Work Online
You’ve published an article...now what? This interactive workshop will cover best practices for scholars to promote their work online through social media and the helpful scholarly communication tool, Grow Kudos.
Professional Development Network (PDN) Workshops
Altmetrics: Explore Research Impact beyond Academia
Introduction to altmetrics, or metrics that measure the volume of online attention to research, as well as to the altmetrics database, Altmetric Explorer, which Virginia Tech subscribes to.
Tell Your Story: Find and Distinguish your Online Scholarly Presence
Introduction to important researcher profiles, such as ORCID iD, Google Scholar Profile, and Scopus Author Profile, how to link them and easily maintain them. Also: how to interpret and track bibliometrics and altmetrics.
- February 18, 2020 Recording - Tell Your Story WorkshopAn activity follows near the end of the workshop, so the recording ends at that point. Please see the recordings from fall 2019 for instruction on research impact metrics, such as citation metrics and altmetrics.
Scopus Basics
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with bibliometrics tools to track, analyze and visualize research. You'll learn how to search, refine, compare, and understand Scopus data, metrics, and profiles.
- Recording - Scopus BasicsPlease note - sound not audible until the 10 min mark (did not have mic turned on). Most of the presentation has audio though.
SciVal Basics: Analyze, Benchmark, and Visualize Research Impact
SciVal is a research impact analysis tool that harnesses bibliometric and scientometric data from Scopus. You'll learn how to use SciVal to analyze, benchmark, and visualize research impact for institutions and groups of researchers.
Promote your Scholarly Publications with Kudos
Kudos is a free 'science' communication tool for all disciplines to help communicate your research in nontechnical language, boost visibility and potential impact, and assess the reach of your efforts.
Communicating your Work/Research: Talking to the Public
Learn how to effectively communicate your work/research and why it is relevant to others outside your field and to the public. Also: online communication via channels such as Twitter and Grow Kudos.
- 2020-2-19 RecordingSkip to the 10 min mark to skip introductions of everyone. There are two "work-on-your-own" activities for about 10 min each. I recommend you use the worksheet to do the activity as well as if you were in the class
Communicating your Research Online
This two-day workshop series takes you through the steps to ensure you have maximum visibility, discoverability, and potential impact of your research through the understanding of publisher copyright policies, dissemination of research through Open Access, the creation, linking, and maintenance of online scholarly profiles; and promoting your research through social media and online channels, such as Kudos.
- Workshop 1 - Get Noticed: Defining your professional online presence
- Workshop 2 - Get the Word Out: Disseminating your work and building connections
- Slides - Communicating Research OnlineALL Slides from the 2-Day workshop series from University Libraries and ICTAS (Institute for Critical Technologies & Applied Sciences)