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Scholarly Identity: A Guide: Tips and Tricks

A guide on how to manage, promote, and protect your online scholarly identity as a current or future researcher, academic, or scholar.

Scholarly Communications Librarian

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Jennifer Beamer
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General Tips and Tricks

  • Use your ORCID to rapidly update your information and direct viewers to your complete ORCID profile
  • Publish your work Open Access to increase visibility 
  • Cross-promote: Include links to your social media pages to your website or blog and vice-versa
  • Upload a high resolution professional photo 
  • Follow people, discussions, boards, groups, and topics
  • Stay active - try to post regularly
  • Include website URL and social media links to your email signature
  • Notify others of new social media accounts
  • Look at the followers list of your colleagues or influential individuals in your field to identify new people to follow and groups to join.
  • Look at metrics, including visits, shares, downloads, and clicks to help you identify user wants and trends.
  • Give proper attribution
  • Join groups so you can participate in discussions, answer questions, and interact with current or potential peers.
  • Use keywords and industry buzzwords to attract attention, find collaborators, and increase visibility.
  • Do not share anything publicly that you wouldn't share with someone one-on-one. Once posted and made public, your posts and comments will be seen by various people with different viewpoints, knowledge, beliefs, etc so it's worth keeping that in mind before posting. 
  • Focus on quality, not quantity 

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