A survey and interviews, with both researchers and researcher developers, were used to explore how researchers use their social capital to elicit careers advice, who they ask, how they rate their networking skills and their career aspirations, attitudes and constraints. Via Ajmal Sultany We report on an exploratory study consisting of brief case studies in selected disciplines, examining what motivates researchers to work (or want to work) in an open manner with regard to their data, results and protocols, and whether advantages are delivered by working in this way. We review the policy background to open science, and literature on the benefits attributed to open data, considering how these relate to curation and to questions of who participates in science. The case studies investigate the perceived benefits to researchers, research institutions and funding bodies of utilising open scientific methods, the disincentives and barriers, and the degree to which there is evidence to support these perceptions. Six case study groups were selected in astronomy, bioinformatics, chemistry, epidemiology, language technology and neuroimaging. The studies identify relevant examples and issues through qualitative analysis of interview transcripts. We provide a typology of degrees of open working across the research lifecycle, and conclude that better support for open working, through guidelines to assist research groups in identifying the value and costs of working more openly, and further research to assess the risks, incentives and shifts in responsibility entailed by opening up the research process are needed. Via antonella esposito 
This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other. 
The physicist's implication that scientists who blog about their research are trying to circumvent peer review is unfair... 
Social media offers the potential for educators and institutions to engage with students and other stakeholders in new ways. 
Journal of Medical Internet Research article. Can Tweets Predict Citations?Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific Impact... |
From the 2012 JISC CETIS Conference - parallel track on Social Network Analysis 
The social shaping of technology has become a broad umbrella term to cover a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives in the social sciences. 
"Interesting to see the University of Aberystwyth Social Media guidelines for staff at http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/social-media/onlinesafety/, and to compare them with UCL guidelines at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-media/guidelines. Two quite different approaches!" Via Anthony Beal 
Digital technologies are becoming an integral part of scholarly activities and open access scholarship has an important role to play in the digital scholar’s workload but academics must think of how the economics of this will work. Gill Kirrup asks, who will pay for digital scholarship? Via antonella esposito Co-authored with Regina Deil-Amen, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, and Manuel Sacramento Gonzalez Canche. This research was supported by funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 
This article considers the opportunities and risks social media entails, and offers advice on developing policy. It outlines the types of opportunities for using social networks, blogs, and wikis in student support and engagement. 
(2009). Academics’ virtual identities. Teaching in Higher Education: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 221-224. |
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