Social Networks
Social networks are used by research groups to engage with and share ongoing research.
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers, monitor analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Browse a list of UBC groups.
Facebook is a social networking site to post, reply and share content. Browse a list of UBC Facebook accounts.
Business oriented social networking site mainly used for professionals connecting with each other.
A free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
the Open Science Framework (OSF), a free and open source project management repository that supports researchers across their entire project lifecycle. OSF helps researchers work on projects privately with a limited number of collaborators and make parts of their projects public, or make all the project publicly accessible for broader dissemination with citable, discoverable DOIs. Browse a list of UBC members using the OSF.
Differs from other social networking sites as it's geared toward scientists and researchers. Allows users to collaborate, share content, ask and answer questions. Browse the UBC-Vancouver ResearchGate.
Twitter is a popular microblogging service. The service provides access to current updates in your discipline, as news services and academic journals broadcast breaking news over Twitter. One distinct advantage of Twitter is the ability to reply to journalists and scholars in your field and to easily repost links to articles through your own account. Browse a list of UBC Twitter accounts.
More about Twitter:
- Follow colleagues or research projects @username;
- Post links to research papers;
- Solicit advice on works-in-progress, ideas, or problems;
- Create and follow custom newspapers out of Twitter content using paper.li;
- Search for hashtags #keyword;
- Generic # popular in the academic community: #highered, #academia, #edresearch;
- Generic # popular in the PhD student community: #phdadvice, #phdchat.
- Use a third party tool like HootSuite or Tweetdeck to follow hashtags.
References
Books :
Scholarly Communication on the Academic Social Web by
Collaboration among scholars has always been recognized as a fundamental feature in scientific discovery. The ever-increasing diversity among disciplines and complexity of research problems make it more impelling to collaborate in order to keep up with the fast pace of innovation and advance knowledge. Along with the rapidly developing Internet communication technologies and the increasing popularity of social web, we have observed many important developments of scholarly collaboration on the academic social web.In this lecture, we review the rapid transformation of scholarly collaboration on various academic social web platforms, and examine how these platforms have facilitated academics throughout their research life cycle- from forming ideas, collecting data, authoring articles to disseminating findings. We refer to the term academic social web platforms in this lecture as a category of Web 2.0 tools or online platforms (such as CiteULike, Mendeley, academia.edu, and ResearchGate) that enable and facilitate scholarly information exchange and participation. We will also examine scholars' collaboration behaviors include sharing academic resources, exchanging opinions, following each other's research, keeping up with current research trends, and most importantly, building up their professional networks.Inspired by the model developed by G. Olson, Olson, and Venolia (2000) on factors for successful scientific collaboration, our examination of the status of scholarly collaboration on academic social web has four emphases: technology readiness, coupling work, building common ground, and collaboration readiness. Finally, we will talk about the insights and challenges of all these online scholarly collaboration activities imposed to the research communities who are engaging in supporting online scholarly collaboration.This lecture aims to help researchers and practitioners to understand the development of scholarly collaboration on academic social web, and to build up an active community of scholars who are interested in this topic.
ISBN: 1627056548Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Social Media in Academia by
Social media and online social networks are expected to transform academia and the scholarly process. However, intense emotions permeate scholars’ online practices and an increasing number of academics are finding themselves in trouble in networked spaces. In reality, the evidence describing scholars’ experiences in online social networks and social media is fragmented. As a result, the ways that social media are used and experienced by scholars are not well understood. Social Media in Academia examines the day-to-day realities of social media and online networks for scholarship and illuminates the opportunities, tensions, conflicts, and inequities that exist in these spaces. The book concludes with suggestions for institutions, individual scholars, and doctoral students regarding online participation, social media, networked practice, and public scholarship.
ISBN: 1138822752Publication Date: 2016-01-12
Social Network Sites for Scientists by
Social Network Sites for Scientists: A Quantitative Survey explores the newest social network sites (for example, ResearchGate and Academia.edu) and web bibliographic platforms (Mendeley, Zotero) that have recently emerged for the scholarly community to use in the interchange of information and documents. Chapters describe their main characteristics, what their advantages and limitations are, and the researchers that populate these websites. The surveys included in the book have been conducted following a quantitative approach, and measure the strength of the services provided by the sites in terms of use and activity. In addition, they also discuss the implications of new products in the future of scientific communication and their impact on research activities and evaluation.
ISBN: 008100592XPublication Date: 2016-07-22
Articles / Reports :
- 1) Cann, A., Dimitriou K.,& Hooley T. (Feb. 2011). Social media: A guide for researchers. Retrieved from http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/social_media_guide_for_screen_0.pdf
- 2) Lupton, D. (10 June 2014). "Feeling better connected": Academics' use of social media. Retrieved from: http://www.canberra.edu.au/about-uc/faculties/arts-design/attachments2/pdf/n-and-mrc/Feeling-Better-Connected-report-final.pdf
- 3) Tachibana, C. (28 Feb. 2014) A scientists guide to social media. Science, doi:10.1126/science.opms.r1400141
- 4) Van Noorden, R. (14 Aug. 2014). Online collaboration: Scientists and the social network. Nature, v. 512, 126-128. doi:10.1038/512126a.