Tracking scholarly digital footprints

Like many I communicate my scholarly research over multiple platforms in a range of activities that have now become routine for research-active academics. These include, for example:

Screenshot of link listings on Hazel Hall’s About.me page

• maintaining a personal archive of my publications, presentations and research reports – accessible through the publications and presentations tab on this web site
• uploading papers to open access repositories – mine go to the Edinburgh Napier repository, and are also listed with links from the web pages of the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation
• uploading videos of conference presentations – see for example the output from the AHRC-funded DREaM project in 2011-12 on the Library and Information Science Research Coalition Vimeo account
• sharing PowerPoint presentations – I maintain a SlideShare account
• blogging about research – here at hazelhall.org, and between 2009-2012 at http://lisresearch.org
• submitting papers to open access journals – I have submitted, for example, to Library and Information Research and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
• tweeting links to my work – as @hazelh

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