2014 beacon-tools-for-science
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Free and Easy to Use Tools to Make Your Research, Data, and Code More Accessible
Titus [email protected]
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Maintaining academic Internet presence
Goals:• Easy to find correct, up to date information.• Some evidence that you are an articulate
human being is not usually a bad idea.– Grad school application essay;– Post-doc statement of purpose;– Faculty research statement;
…make sure everything has dates on it,somewhere obvious.
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What do you get when you google yourself?
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Web sites are great, but hard to maintain…
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Maintaining academic Internet presence
Goals:• Easy to find correct, up to date information.• Some evidence that you are an articulate
human being is not usually a bad idea.– Grad school application essay;– Post-doc statement of purpose;– Faculty research statement;
…make sure everything has dates on it,somewhere obvious.
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Google Scholar!
Automatically updated lists of your publications and online materials.
• Totally awesome.• Completely free.• The first place I go to find someone’s papers &
evaluate their “impact.”
• Also: good scholarly literature search; personal library; suggestion/recommendation engine.
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Google Scholar automatically finds accessible versions of your papers
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…also has a “library” feature, for maintaining paper collections.
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…and a “recommender” system…
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TODO: Google Scholar
• Go “claim” (enable) your profile.
• Make sure that all of your papers are accessible through Google Scholar.
• Look at the library, recommender, and alerts features.
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Note: provide link in your CV!
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Figshare
Figshare is a repository for digital objects that provides citation handles for them.
• A place to dump “digital objects” and receive DOIs for them.
• Somewhat surprisingly, the consensus location for data sets w/no other home.
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…I put my blog posts here.
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TODO: figshare
• Go create an account; upload anything you want to share in a citable manner (papers, blog posts, posters, figures, data sets).
• Hint, NSF asks for your data products on your BioSketch…
• Note: there are default limits on data set size for upload, but they can be waived easily.
• Note: Code is a special issue, with integration w/github now a possibility.
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GitHub
• A place to collaboratively work on code (openly or not).
• N.B. Avida and khmer are both on github.
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Issue tracking, merge requests, etc.
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TODO: github
• If you are a programmer, create a (free) account.http://github.com/ctb/
• Free private repos for academics are available, too.
• If you are in a lab with lots of other programmers, think about creating a (free) organization.http://github.com/ged-lab/
• Put some code there, maybe?
Note: github.com/beacon-center/
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ImpactStory
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Slideshare
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Thanks!
Any questions?
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