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Connecting Cardiff’s Researchers Cardiff University’s social media workshop for research students Sarah Nicholas Subject Librarian (Architecture) CPD25 Support for Researchers event 27 April 2012

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Presentation re Cardiff University's Connected Researcher workshop to the CPD25 group of librarians event on Support for Researcher ( http://bit.ly/H89Cga ).

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Connecting Cardiff’s ResearchersCardiff University’s social media workshop for research students

Sarah NicholasSubject Librarian (Architecture)CPD25 Support for Researchers event27 April 2012

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The Connected Researchernetworking and collaborating with social media

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to show ways in which you can build an effective and supportive online network

to look at a range of social media tools to discuss issues associated with social media and researchers

Workshop aims

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drivers for adoption

image http://www.vrl-financial-news.com/images/ll202_p36.jpg

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task not tool

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Why use social media?

Case studies of three connected researchers

Networking

Disseminate and communicate

Collect and review

The joined-up connected researcher

Content

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tinyurl.com/ConnectedResearcher

#CR12

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Workshop exercises included examining

digital footprints and commenting on a

blog

image http://www.ergoware.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000.gif

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tinyurl.com/CR12-WhyBlog

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Case studies

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pressure to constantly blog in order to stay relevant

information overloadthe distracting nature of being onlinenot capturing the audience which isn’t

engaged with social media

Social media barriers

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Social media tips

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Why blog?

use as a notebook 1

record thoughts on events 2

alternative focus (with a writing element)

crowdsource

knowledge transfer

links to articles

collect feedback

generate discussion

collaborate

enhance reputation

outreach

reduce feelings of isolation

increase sense of belonging

blog as online ‘base camp’

direct people to blog to save producing documents 2

momentum to explore other technologies

explores the process of research work

critical appraisal

follow events

reflect share network collate learn

1. Richer, Suzi. 2009. Blogging your way to completion… [Online]. Available at: http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1271-194421/Blogging-your-way-to-completion.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].2. Weller, M. 2007. The ed technie: is blogging a good use of time? [Online]. Available at: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/04/is_blogging_a_g.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].

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Academic tweeting

#CR12#DR12Vitae#PhDChat

#TwitJC

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How do you choose a tool?

“I’ve found that the most important thing is identifying where other people who share your research interests are located. If you can find the tool that other people you know are using then you should probably use that tool as the biggest benefits are in the social aspects of these tools”

Hooley, T. 2011. Citeulike and other social citation tools. Vitae. Available at : http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332831/CiteULike-and-other-social-citation-tools.html

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www.slideshare.net/SarahNicholas

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excellent opportunity to learn about modern networking within academia [I liked] the

communication before the session

a thorough overview of the field, [presented with] clarity and flexibility in taking questions and encouraging discussion

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Challengespractice versus discussion

librarians’ authority

rapidly changing environment

external constraints

reach

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The future

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Digidol “aims to embed processes and practices that enable the development of digital literacy in all staff and students across all areas and levels of Cardiff University. It is understood that this will be as much about changing attitudes and beliefs, as it will be about realising practical knowledge and skills.”

Digidol. 2012. Digidol: developing digital literacy. [Online] Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at http://digidol.cardiff.ac.uk [Accessed: 28 March 2012].

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Other courses are available from Vitae,

University of Bath, LSE, Imperial and more

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Research Supportat Cardiff University contextualising the connected researcher

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Cardiff University Libraries has an Associate Director of Research and Academic

Engagement and a Senior Consultant and a Consultant in Research Support. They are supported by a

Combined Library/IT Research Support and REF Groups.

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ensure researchers’ needs are met by

surveying and reading literature

promote services to researchers

develop expertise in open access,

institutional repositories, bibliometrics

and support for the REF

engender cross-University collaboration

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Cardiff University Libraries has an

advisory role in finding citation data and increasing visibility for publications

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“the subject librarians [...] are central in ensuring the successful integration of research support at Cardiff”

Bradbury, K. and Weightman, A. 2010. Research support at Cardiff University Library. SCONUL Focus 50, pp. 65-70.

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University Graduate College and Research Staff Career Development Skills courses include Keeping your research up-to-date, Citations count! getting your research known and Managing your references using EndNote

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SURE, the Support Unit for Research Evidence, supports and produces research to assist evidence-based practice and policy

SURE specialises in literature searching, critical appraisal and summarising evidence and delivers teaching of these skills at Cardiff

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SysNet brings together expertise from Cardiff University’s academic schools, to share best practice in undertaking high-quality systematic reviews

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SCOLAR (Special Collections and Archives) work closely with Schools to develop and exploit special collections and archives for research

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• research data management• funder mandates• OA requirements• data mining• advice on metadata

Future directions in research support

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ReferencesBradbury, K. and Weightman, A. 2010. Research support at Cardiff University Library. SCONUL Focus 50, pp. 65-70.

Cann, A., Dimitriou, K. and Hooley, T. 2011. Social media: a guide for researchers. [Online] London: Research Information Network. Available at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/social-media-guide [Accessed: 29 March 2012].

CIBER. 2010. Social media and research workflow. [Online] London: CIBER, University College London. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf [Accessed: 29 March 2012].

Cope, J. and Jones, G. 2011. Connecting researchers at the University of Bath. Ariadne [Online] 67. Available at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/cope-jones/ [Accessed 19 April 2012].

Digidol. 2012. Digidol: developing digital literacy. [Online] Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at http://digidol.cardiff.ac.uk [Accessed: 28 March 2012].

Weller, M. 2011. The digital scholar: how technology is changing scholarly practice. London: Bloomsbury.

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Connecting Cardiff’s ResearchersCardiff University’s social media workshop for research students

Sarah NicholasSubject Librarian (Architecture)CPD25 Support for Researchers event27 April 2012