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It seems that Brock University in St. Catherine’s, Ontario really likes me. Two years ago, the Library kindly invited me to speak during their Open Access Week festivities. And this year the Physics Department has also very kindly invited me to be part of their Seminar Series, also to talk about Getting Your Science Online, this time during OA Week mostly by happy coincidence.
It’s tomorrow, Tuesday October 23, 2012 in room H313 at 12:30.
Here’s the abstract I’ve provided:
Physicist and Reinventing Discovery author Michael Nielsen has said that due to the World Wide Web, “[t]he process of scientific discovery – how we do science – will change more over the next 20 years than in the past 300 years.” Given the cornucopian nature of the Web, there’s a tool or strategy that will help most everyone with concrete goals in their research program. In this session we’ll take a look at some of the incredible opportunities the Web has opened up for scientists, from Open Access publishing, Open Notebooks and Open Data on the one hand, to blogs, Twitter and Google+ on the other.
It looks to be great fun! I’d like to thank Thad Haroun and the Brock Physics Department for kindly inviting me. I’ll post the slides on the blog later this week.
The rest of this post is what I guess would count as “supplemental materials” for the presentation. The first chunk is a bunch of links on the main topics of the presentation, all the various “Open Whatever” topics. The rest is a long list of readings on blogs, Twitter and general social media for academics that I’ve assembled over the years and at least somewhat digested into the presentation, mostly based on a post from last year but will some extra and more recent items added.
Open Access
Open Access Mandates & policies
Open Access Repositories
Open Notebook Science
Blogging networks
Blog Aggregators
Some physics & math blogs
And here are the blogs/twitter/social media resources I promised.
- The B-School Twitter-Free Zone
- Will econ blogging hurt your career?
- Science blogging: The future of science communication and why you should be part of it
- 10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics
- LSE produces new Twitter guide for academics
- A gentle introduction to Twitter for the apprehensive academic
- As scholars undertake a great migration to online publishing, altmetrics stands to provide an academic measurement of twitter and other online activity
Blog Admin
- Running a successful academic blog can make you feel like a rock star: authenticity and narrative are essential for forging your own digital identity
- Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation and is changing the way scholars disseminate their research, raising questions about the way we evaluate academic authority
- Continual publishing across journals, blogs and social media maximises impact by increasing the size of the ‘academic footprint’.
- Negative Myths about Academic Blogging
- Blogging is part of my day job
- Why Academics Should Blog
- Our Blogs, Ourselves(Paul Krugman)
- The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study
- Should you enter the academic blogosphere? A discussion on whether scholars should take the time to write a blog about their work
- Social media and research workflow
- Social media: A guide for researchers
- Evans and Cebula on Academic Blogging
- Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It’s Our Job, Part 2: You Do Have Time, Part 2.5: Breaking Stereotypes, Part 3: Win-Win
- The Economics of Science Blogging
- The Six Attitudes Leaders Take Towards Social Media
- 8 Qualities of a Social Media Expert
- Eleven Deadly Sins Of Online Promotion For Writers
- Five Hard Truths About Blogging
- Social Media – Oversold and Undervalued
- 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
- n00b Science Blogging: Part 1, Part 2 – The Audience, Part 3 – Blogging in Grad School
- 7 reasons people don’t use twitter, and why ‘It’s a conversation’ is the answer to all of them
- Twitter advice for profs: keep it personal
- Scientists & the Social Media
- Big Blog on Campus
- The Five Social Media “Facts of Life”
- Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One’s Own
- How To Blog a Conference
- Post Publication Peer Review: Blogs vs Letters to the Editor
- Why I Decided to Start a Blog
- Tweeting Science
- Blogs: face the conversation
- Science Blogging: The Future of Science Communication & Why You Should Be a Part of it
- Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community
- I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience
- Everyone’s an influencer: Quantifying influence on Twitter
- Professor quits email for social media
- To Blog Or Not To Blog?
- How To Blog a Conference
- Knowledge Dissemination: blogging vs peer review
- Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One’s Own
- Professors, Start Your Blogs
- How Public Like a Frog: On Academic Blogging
- Twitter advice for profs: keep it personal
- Everything you Need to Know about Twitter
- 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
- How to succeed in blogging without really trying (which is, coincidentally, the ONLY way to succeed)
- Social media: A guide for researchers
- 10 reasons NOT to be on Twitter
- Perceived Legitimacy of Blogging in Science
- Five Tips for Smarter Social Networking
- Science Blogging and Tenure
- “In Olden Days, A Glimpse of Blogging”
- Why scientists (should) blog
- Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators
- An Open, Digital Professoriat
- Portrait of the Scholar as Blogger
- How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)
- I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context
Feel free to add any suggestions in the comments.


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