Open Practices for the Connected Researcher
About
Brian Kelly gave an invited hour-long talk on Open Practices for the Connected Researcher in a seminar which was part of a series of Open Access Week events which took place at the University of Exeter during Open Access Week.
The seminar took place in Newman Lecture Theatre B on the Streatham Campus from 12.00-13.00 on Tuesday 23th October 2012.
Abstract
The potential benefits of open access to research papers are well-understood. However social media provides opportunities for 'connected researchers' to both engage more effectively with their peers and raise the visibility of their research outputs which can help in enhancing citations of their papers and implementation of the ideas.
In this talk Brian Kelly will describe how he has used social media communication tools such as his UK Web Focus blog, his Twitter account and his Facebook profile, social media sharing tools such as Slideshare and research profiling services such as LinkedIn and Academia.edu to develop successful research collaborations (which resulted in one encounter on Twitter leading to an award-winning paper!) and his papers being the most-downloaded from the University of Bath repository.
As part of his commitment to open practices in the support of his professional activities Brian will outline his recommendations for ways in which researchers can exploit the opportunities presented by the social web.
Slides
- Open Practices for the Connected Researcher
- [MS PowerPoint format]
Note that the slides are also available from Slideshare and are embedded below.
Video Recording
Note that a video recording of the talk is available on YouTube and is embedded below.
Biographical Details
Brian Kelly works for the JISC-funded Innovation Support Centre
at UKOLN, a centre of expertise which advises on digital infrastructure, information policy
and data management based at the University of Bath.
In his role as UK Web Focus he advises the UK's higher and further education
communities on best practices for innovative use of the Web.
Brian has given many presentations on Web 2.0 and the Social Web. In recent years Brian has been an invited plenary speaker at international conferences held in Trondheim, Stockholm, Taiwan, Singapore and Melbourne. Brian is also a passionate user of a variety of Social Web tools, including his UK Web Focus blog which was runner-up in the Computer Weekly's IT Professional Blog of the Year Award in 2012.
Brian's areas of interest include ways in which Web 2.0 and the Social Web can be used to support professional, scholarly and research activities, Web standards, Web accessibility and Web metrics.
Brian has written about 50 peer-reviewed papers, invited papers and articles including a recent paper on Can LinkedIn and Academic.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? which suggested that use of social media services such as LinkedIn may be responsible for Brian having the largest number of downloads from the University of Bath institutional repository.