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Profiling Academics Online (PAO) Port Louis 08.05.12 By Francois van Schalkwyk

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Profiling Academics Online (PAO)

Port Louis 08.05.12By Francois van Schalkwyk

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[ web 2.0 stats ]

1.5m users 140m users

>25m users reached 10m users in 16 days

150m members (as at 9.02.2012)10m in Middle East and Africa

Second-biggest search engine after Google

205 444 eBooks, 1 828 622 textbooks,55 374 authors, 101 subjects, millions of users

39 638 public groupsData on 85m research papers

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So what?

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Source: Olivier Beauchesne

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In the past 30 years, the average distance between collaborators has increased 5-fold

(from 334km in 1980 to 1500km in 2009)

(Waltman, Tijsen & Van Eck 2011)

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Needs expressed by FoS

• Need for increased collaboration (and removal of geographic barriers)

• Need for new publishing channels

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Those who work in collaboration with different institutions are significantly more likely to be

frequent or occasional users of web 2.0 services associated with producing, sharing or

commenting on scholarly content. (RIN 2010)

Based on cohort of approx. 1000 UK researchers

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Effective technology transfer

• UoM has a key role to play as a flagship university in knowledge creation and innovation (i.e. knowledge application)

• Effective technology transfer relies not only on faculty-generated research (and the organisational/national/regional systems that support their work), but on relationships with the private sector and government. (John Douglass, Center for Studies in Higher Education - UC Berkeley)

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SCAP assumptions

1. Increasing the visibility of academics, their expertise and their knowledge outputs increases their chances of gaining access to networks

2. There are 3 key networks that academics can access by increasing their online visibility:1. Academic, discipline-specific networks2. Academic—industry networks3. Research funding networks

3. Web 2.0 technologies provide tools that can increase the online visibility of academics on a global scale

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What is PAO?

The use of online/web 2.0 technologies 1. To increase the visibility of academics2. To make knowledge objects

available, accessible and visible (Knowledge objects: ‘traditional’ publications such as journal articles as well as unpublished or preprint papers, presentations, teaching resources, lab notes, data sets, etc.)

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ExamplesPULL (passive) PUSH (active) MEASURE/TRACKMendeleyLinkedInResearchGateAcademia.eduAbout.meUoM page

BlogTwitterCommentReview

Goo.glGoogle ScholarISIPublish or Perish

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The PAO Process

• Selection of up to 10 participants from FoS for pilot project

• Meet and brief participants (Wednesday)• Baseline presence• Create online profiles and create content• Maintain and up-date profiles, and online

communication• Duration: 5 months (May to September 2012)• Measure presence / assess impact• Present findings (November 2012)

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What will participants have to do?

4 Cs:• Create• Curate• Communicate• Collaborate

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What will participants have to do?

• Follow the steps in the Toolkit provided• Complete Step 1: Updating CVs by end-May• Complete Steps 2 to 10 over 4-month period

(June to September 2012)• Only 4 out of 10 steps compulsory• Maintain and up-date profiles, and online

communication• Make CVs and Google Scholar data available

to RA/SCAP team

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What will SCAP do?

• Provide Toolkits• Provide participants with 3G cards for the

duration of the project• Make a research assistant available to provide

support in creating and maintaining profiles• Provide remote support

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General comments

• Mindful of varying levels of skills and expertise. No minimum requirement for participation.

• Tools suggested in the toolkit are not meant to be exhaustive or prescriptive. SCAP encourages exploration of new and alternative technologies.

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Questions / comments?

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Thank you