How Articles Get Noticed and Advance the Scientific Conversation

Gozde Ozakinci, a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, offers an exemplary use of Twitter in a research workflow.

I dip in and out during the day and each time I have a nugget of information that I find useful. I feel that with Twitter, my academic world expanded to include many colleagues I wouldn’t otherwise meet. … The information shared on Twitter is so much more current than you would find on journals or conferences.

The good news is you’ve published your manuscript! The bad news? With two million other new research articles likely to be published this year, you face steep competition for readers, downloads, citations and media attention — even if only 10% of those two million papers are in your discipline.

So, how can you get your paper noticed and advance the scientific conversation? 
One word: Tweet.

From: Victoria Costello, March 30 2015, on PLOS Blogs,              blogs.plos.org/plos

Five things we mean when we say digital humanities

Libraries as Problem Shapers: some thoughts sparked by Brian Croxall (five things that we mean when we say digital humanities)

Brian Mathews (Virginia Tech.) comments: It was great to learn about Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship but the real reason Brian Croxall was on campus was to talk about digital humanities. We hosted him in the library and his talk was insightful and entertaining.

The main takeaway for me was his five things that we mean when we say digital humanities:

1. Humanistic examination of digital objects
2. Digital scholarly communication
3. Digital pedagogy
4. Creation of digital archives and primary source materials
5. Digital examination of Humanistic objects

 From: The Ubiquitous Librarian, 24th November 2014