tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64424024469476334562024-03-02T01:07:07.906+00:00ScHARR Information Resources BlogEstablished in 1994 ScHARR's Information Resources team has established itself as a key national player in providing information support to health technology assessment and health services research. The team is made up of professional, highly trained Information Specialists who are involved in the forefront of research, teaching, support and development. This is our blog where we talk about the diverse work we do: #Teach #Research #Search #SupportMark Cloweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15344042772588461025noreply@blogger.comBlogger867125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-75835510334097284602019-03-07T15:52:00.000+00:002019-03-07T15:52:02.413+00:00HEDS Up (and out)You may notice that this blog has been quiet for a while, and that's because the IR team has decided that from now on we'll be posting on the <a href="http://scharrheds.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HEDS blog</a> instead.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds" target="_blank">HEDS</a> (Health Economics and Decision Science) is the largest section of ScHARR, and the one in which the <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff" target="_blank">Information Resources team</a> is located (though we continue to work with the <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections" target="_blank">other sections</a> of the School as well).<br />
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We're still the same team, interested in the same things, like: information retrieval; research impact; review methodology; and of course libraries - but from now on we'll be blogging about them in the same place as the rest of our HEDS colleagues.<br />
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For a taste of the HEDS blog, why not check out this <a href="http://scharrheds.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-we-find-tools-for-systematic-review.html" target="_blank">recent post by IR's Anthea Sutton</a> on search strategies for identifying systematic review tools?<br />
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Thanks for all your interest in the <a href="http://scharrlibrary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">ScHARR Information Resources blog</a> since its inception way back in 2007(!) - the archive will remain here for the forseeable future should you wish to access any older posts, but for the latest news from the team we hope you'll continue to follow us in <a href="http://scharrheds.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">our new home</a>.<br />
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<br />Mark Cloweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15344042772588461025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-20636306807221188182018-08-22T08:30:00.000+01:002018-08-22T08:30:00.686+01:00Libraries and free technology – Bargains to be found if you look around and avoid the pitfalls<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post was originally written by </span><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/tattersall" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #f35029; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; word-wrap: break-word;">Andy Tattersall</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ahead of his and fellow MmIT committee member <a href="https://twitter.com/tinalpool?lang=en">Christina Harbour’s</a> participation in the next </span><a href="https://uklibchat.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/libraries-and-free-technology-bargains-to-be-found-if-you-look-around-and-avoid-the-pitfalls/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #f35029; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s; word-wrap: break-word;">#uklibchat</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is the line that you can never have too much of good thing and these days there are so many good things that librarians and information professionals can employ in their working environment. The great thing is that since we emerged from the world of Web 1.0 to 2.0 that a lot of these newer tools are free and actually quite useful. The flipside is that a lot aren’t that good or just can’t be applied in a library setting, regardless of how hard you try and knock a square peg into a round hole, it won’t go (unless the square peg is smaller of course). <br /><br />Libraries are no different from any kind of organisation, they have to use formally licensed software for the day to day running of their service. Even though this does not always mean the leanest or most dynamic of packages serving your library, but it does mean you will get a good level of service support and that is essential. The smaller, more niche tools have a part to play in this technology ecosystem - just like the microbes and bugs on Planet Earth - if we remove them the whole system would collapse. The larger technology companies often need the smaller companies to keep the environment from becoming stale and predictable. They also can eat them up from time to time, just like our bugs and other real world creatures. Take for example how - at the time independent company - Mendeley changed reference management dramatically for the better. The smaller technology companies are less likely to get bogged down by bloated platforms run by large companies who focus first on foremost in delivering a stable product for their users. Like I say, the stability of large platforms is essential, the flexibility and dynamic nature of smaller technologies is often where the real action is at.<br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last ten years has seen a tremendous growth in new technologies that can be applied in a library setting. The financial cost of these tools, such as Canva, Twitter, Adobe Spark and Eventbrite can be free. Yet with freedom can come a cost as problems can start to float to the surface, although not all of these problems are that worrisome. The old adage ‘If you are not paying for the product - you are the product’ certainly rings true with how some technologies will give you a free ride if you give them your data in return. There are also issues around what do you do when you become hooked into a useful platform, but want more from the premium add ons and the person holding the purse strings says no. How do you know whether the tool you are using will be here tomorrow - remember PageFlakes, Storify, Readability, Google Reader and Silk anyone? <br /><br />Another question for the typical library or information professional is which tools are best and how can they be applied and which will work on their system - take for example a librarian in an NHS setting. The final and most crucial issue is around the investment of time used to master new tools and that can be problematic depending on the learning curve, but if you know how to use Microsoft Word you’ll probably master most lightweight tools in very little time. The sheer number of tools that can be used in the library sector is overwhelming, regardless of whether you are a public, NHS, business or academic librarian. One tool may solve a host of problems for one librarian but be as useful as a chocolate teapot for another. It is all about application and one of the greatest things to see in technology uptake in the library is how one person can use a tool and then another take that same tool and apply it in a totally unexpected way just as successfully. This is the wonderful thing about these technologies, whether it is Menitmeter for polling, Pocket for curating or Piktochart for posters, you you use it may be totally different from how someone else does. </span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-18491619941617555882018-08-20T12:08:00.002+01:002018-08-20T12:08:20.137+01:00Academic Writing: Less Pain, More Joy<span id="docs-internal-guid-6597e278-7fff-b4ce-f80a-497b279ff287" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><img height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kk4qBQZ9U82krzgKZ65fpg0WFHUERHQW4Umb69WO3w4ieAqLkzj5Pb-cJCQ4aE_sJd_2LqCZ4HcCte2dORd0AqKg32S9YchjQJ13pdy2KrY26_Vv1XmjMeJ43tYNBDflTzyCHOO3" style="border: medium none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="149" /> </span><br />
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pain of bringing all my chapters up to standard, and creating a whole thesis,
rather than a book of stand-alone pieces. The analogy of assembling a
wheelbarrow rings true: first make sure all the parts are there, then tighten
it up (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Writing-Up-Qualitative-Research-Methods/dp/0803937938/" target="_blank">Wolcott, 1990</a>). Through this final bit, I’m going to have to draw on everything I’ve
learnt about writing in order to get to the finish line. I thought I’d share
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weekend and you’re tired, and everyone else in the universe is having fun.
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strict approach, which will lead to Scenario three (Joy). How restrictive you
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order to start you need to find a reference and extract the ideas from it to
get going, but you have been faffing about in guilty misery for ages. So, face
it square on, bribing yourself that if you find the article, you can
momentarily think about something else. Once you have found the article, and
get into the ideas it should get better. Continue with tiny, tiny tasks and
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My colleague <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/tattersall" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Andy Tattersall</span></a> reminded me about </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="https://youtu.be/d4jeDG0Cbvw"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">using a table</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> for writing my discussion chapter. It
proved a life-line in finding a way to speed up the writing process, by
splitting the job of writing the discussion into two processes (once I’d got
over Scenario two). Other ways to tackle Scenario one are: to use the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">pomodoro technique</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, a writing retreat, or split the
day/session into quadrants and allocate a task for each one, factoring in mini
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nowhere - in my experience this can go on for ages (days or weeks) and is
equally awful, but in a different way to Scenario one. There are lots of
solutions to this one as well, and come in two types of not-mind blowing strategy.
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structured the chapter you are working on. This can reveal: what sections are
most commonly included, how long they give to each section, the quality of the
writing, a laugh, lots of things. Compare a few and a picture starts to build.
Another one is to read a few </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://patthomson.net/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">blogs</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> / sections of methods textbooks / talk
to other people writing the same kind of thing / speak to your supervisor. In
all these approaches, ask specific questions, and seek specific information.
Then leave it all to percolate, which brings me to the second part of how to
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Walk away, leave it
alone and go and do some exercise, go to church, play the saxophone or whatever
floats your boat. It’s well known that if forced, tacit ideas retreat, but
leaving them alone and re-acquainting yourself with your family and friends or
getting absorbed in a film might just do the trick. Next time you write,
Scenario two might have shifted, revealing a structure that is working;
and once you have that, you know it, increasing your confidence and leading you
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<![endif]-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-2032780777834501352018-07-30T15:41:00.004+01:002018-07-30T15:41:37.658+01:00In the era of Brexit and fake news, scientists need to embrace social media<figure><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Social media can be an intimidating place for academics as not all of them take to it like ducks to water. For many newcomers, a more appropriate analogy is a newborn giraffe - clumsy, awkward and vulnerable to prey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After all, researchers are employed to win bids, publish research and get cited. Since most of this happens behind closed doors or within circles exclusive to the academic community, the open forum of social media can seem like a distraction from the real work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, for those willing to make the leap, <a href="http://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2018-0002">research</a> suggests that once academics surpass 1,000 followers on Twitter there is an appreciable increase in the diversity of the audiences they reach with their work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communicating with people outside of academia means reaching those who might directly benefit from the research. These individuals and groups can then help shape future research aims and give useful feedback to scientists. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, many academics remain reluctant. There is </span><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/05/31/the-impact-agenda-has-led-to-social-media-being-used-in-a-role-it-may-not-be-equipped-to-perform/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no clear evidence</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that social media generates research impact that is beneficial to society, culture and the economy or at least it is very hard to measure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some academics have even <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/09/deakin-university-journalism-martin-hirst-professor-sacked-over-tweets">lost tenure</a> as a result of their behaviour on Twitter, while others have tried to disguise their limited expertise by building a <a href="https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-014-0424-0">reputation</a> for authority online. With mounting pressure on the time of academics, social media can seem like it isn’t worth the effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this, research shows that there is <a href="https://www.nature.com/news/online-collaboration-scientists-and-the-social-network-1.15711">growing curiosity</a> among scholars to use social media in their work, but to sustain this interest there needs to be clearer evidence of the benefits. In the age of Brexit and fake news, social media is more important to academia than ever before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brexit has sown uncertainty in British universities among staff who are from the EU. In other sectors, such as the NHS, anxiety over the result has caused <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-nhs-faces-a-staffing-crisis-for-years-to-come-75426">a fall</a> in the number of trained nurses coming from the EU to work in the UK. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British academics projected across social media could provide reassurance and support to international colleagues who have increasingly felt they are facing an uncertain future in the UK. Without more academics joining Twitter and other platforms, social media will continue to carry the voices of those who shout loudest. As a result, some of the biggest mouths deliver unwelcome messages to European colleagues who have built careers, homes and families in the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one truly knows what will happen in March 2019 when the UK formally leaves the EU, or if that will even happen. Social media presents a way of staying in touch with academics from across the Channel in any case, and allows people to stay abreast of new research, ideas and opportunities with <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/">European counterparts</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Academics will continue to communicate and collaborate on research after March 2019, but potentially not in the way that they have in the past. We do not know how Brexit will affect travel between the UK and the EU, but blogging and social media could promote openness in research that will bridge the divide left by tightening freedom of movement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As crude a term as it is, fake news is a threat to the principles of rigorous investigation that academia embodies. In the United States, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14372940/trump-gag-order-epa-environmental-protection-agency-health-agriculture">the suppression</a> of experts and their data by the Trump administration highlights the risks of scientists remaining silent and not using social media channels to challenge misinformation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this “post-truth” world, we have often heard that people <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39102840">no longer wish to hear from experts</a>. This shift was captured, again, by the Trump administration and their failure to appoint a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/climate/trump-administration-science.html">scientific adviser</a> to the White House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, experts do get things wrong on occasions, but most people surely would rather a qualified pilot flew their plane than an amateur with opinions on aviation. Academics communicating their findings and ideas on social media platforms can attempt to address the balance that has shifted towards ill-evidenced news on these sites. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Improving working relationships with <a href="https://theconversation.com/new-research-must-be-better-reported-the-future-of-society-depends-on-it-87407">journalists</a> can also ensure that stories shared online have links to open access versions of the research, so that science news is more easily checked for accuracy and properly credited to the original scientists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/andy-tattersall-115604">Andy Tattersall</a>, Information Specialist, <em><a href="http://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-sheffield-1147">University of Sheffield</a></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article was originally published on <a href="http://theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a>. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/in-the-era-of-brexit-and-fake-news-scientists-need-to-embrace-social-media-100040">original article</a>.</span>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-71105866686113460352018-07-18T13:13:00.000+01:002018-07-18T13:13:10.861+01:00Nothing lasts forever: questions to ask yourself when choosing a new tool or technology for research<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<em style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Academia has become increasingly reliant on third-party tools and technologies to carry out many of the processes throughout the research lifecycle. But there are genuine concerns about the sustainability of some of these tools and what the implications would be for users in the event they were discontinued. <strong>Andy Tattersall</strong> suggests a series of straightforward questions researchers should ask themselves before choosing a new technology for use in their research. Can you export your content? Is there an alternative? After all, there is no guarantee your favourite tool will still be around tomorrow.</em></div>
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Academia has not always been good at adopting new technologies to aid research and teaching. Even a tool as seemingly popular and simple to use as Twitter has been received with some anxiety and trepidation within the scholarly community. There are various reasons for the slow uptake of new technologies, something not exclusive to the academic community, as captured in Everett Roger’s <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Diffusion_of_Innovations_5th_Edition.html?id=9U1K5LjUOwEC&redir_esc=y" style="color: #e00404; text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Diffusion of Innovations</em></a>. Technology continually changes and the pressures of keeping up with it can actually cause inertia and some to bury their heads in the sand rather than engage with the changing environment. There are genuine concerns about the sustainability of tools we rely on in the academic community, with no guarantee that popular tools like Google Scholar or Twitter will be with us this time next year.</div>
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<strong>Adopting technologies that eventually cease business</strong></h3>
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There are several examples of really useful tools to have been accepted by the academic community only to pull down the virtual shutters for good. It can be quite depressing to have invested time and energy in mastering a tool only for it to disappear offline. This may happen for a variety of reasons, such as a lack of investment (financial or development), slow uptake, or the founding individual moving onto a new venture. Those in academia want solid, factual reasons to utilise a new tool; if the one they currently use works fine, why switch to another they haven’t heard of? It can be like the problem of buying a new laptop: why purchase one now when you could buy one with double the processing power for the same price a year later? Sadly that attitude means you end up not moving on at all. Academia is about finding answers to problems and learning from previous mistakes – surely the same should apply to the very tools we use to achieve better outcomes?</div>
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There are several issues around adopting technologies to carry out, communicate, and analyse research, issues further complicated by the duplication of platforms or providers’ expansions into new areas of business. Take Mendeley, for example, which started as a social network and reference management tool but has since expanded into a data-hosting and a funding-search service.</div>
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<strong>The sad demise of useful platforms</strong></h3>
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Google Reader, PageFlakes, Readability, Silk and Storify have all ceased business in recent years despite demand for their services. In some cases this can be problematic for users as they have invested great amounts of time in curating their own content, particularly so in the case of personalised dashboard PageFlakes or data visualisation site Silk. Thankfully, for most of the aforementioned tools there were suitable alternatives and useful sites like <a href="https://alternativeto.net/" style="color: #e00404; text-decoration-line: none;">alternativeTo</a>, which directs users to similar options. In some cases the provider itself even pointed towards an alternative, such as Readability which used its front page to direct users to Mercury Reader. Others such as Storify proved more problematic, with no immediate like-for-like tool obviously available and Wakelet seeming the best alternative.</div>
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<strong>Choosing the right tool for the job</strong></h3>
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For anyone working with academics to adopt new tools, or for those more proactive academics wishing to explore new ways of working, there are several questions you should ask before adopting a new technology. For the most part these are straightforward and it is important to remember you may only use some technologies once.</div>
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<li>What are they doing with your data?</li>
<li>How often will you use the technology?</li>
<li>Do you know anyone using this tool already?</li>
<li>Has the technology been around for long?</li>
<li>Who created the technology and who owns it?</li>
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<strong>Nothing lasts forever</strong></h3>
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Academia is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, especially third-party tools, to carry out certain research processes. This has long been the case, with tools such as Dropbox or YouTube offering more functionality than in-house institutional platforms. With more tools comes greater diversity and potentially more problems. There is no guarantee we won’t see another <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8558257.stm" style="color: #e00404; text-decoration-line: none;">dot.com crash like that of 2000</a>, and this time academia would also feel its wrath. Many platforms, especially niche academic ones, are run by just a handful of staff or even students. They may have investors expecting a return on their capital, families with mouths to feed, or office bills to pay.</div>
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Another strand to this debate is the thorny subject of open-source versus profit-driven platforms within scholarly communications, as discussed in previous posts by <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/08/15/scholarly-communications-shouldnt-just-be-open-but-non-profit-too/" style="color: #e00404; text-decoration-line: none;">Jefferson Pooley</a> and <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/10/11/open-source-commercial-non-profit-for-profit-what-power-have-you-got/" style="color: #e00404; text-decoration-line: none;">Mark Hahnel</a>. Some academics may prefer the open, community-driven nature of open-source technologies, believing these to be more aligned with core academic values. Yet rejecting all commercial platforms could mean cutting off your nose to spite your face, with open-source initiatives often hamstrung by technical and financial constraints that make them unsustainable.</div>
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Academia’s increasing reliance on these platforms to undertake a multitude of tasks – including carrying out, communicating, and measuring research and its impact – requires greater dialogue around sustainability. It is likely that popular third-party platforms used by the academic community such as Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare, Google Scholar, and YouTube will be here for some time. But what about the smaller niche tools that have been essential in changing and enhancing how academics carry out their work? One only has to look at Google Reader, PageFlakes, and the many others that are no longer in existence. Academia needs to be flexible and adaptable to the changes brought on by the shifting sands of technology but also pay attention to the tools you love the most but which might not be around tomorrow.</div>
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<em>Originally published on the <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/07/17/nothing-lasts-forever-questions-to-ask-yourself-when-choosing-a-new-tool-or-technology-for-research/">LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog</a></em></div>
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Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-56757313378057312862018-06-06T12:21:00.002+01:002018-06-06T12:21:36.579+01:00New research needs to be better reported and librarians can help with that<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I delivered a talk at the 'This is not a Fake News Conference' hosted by the London South Bank University on June 5th. The conference was aimed at librarians and information professionals but also had members of the academic publishing sector, journalists and academics in attendance. My slides and abstract are below and you can read more about the conference <a href="http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/whats-on/this-is-not-a-fake-conference-050618">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientific research is increasingly being given coverage and attention in the media. The problem is that the media often fail to acknowledge who actually carried out the research and link to a publicly available version of that work or institute. This can lead to misreporting (sometimes intentional) and biased news coverage. Whilst academics, collaborators and institutions do not get the credit they deserve. As the REF and impact agenda become increasingly more important, so does the accurate reporting and collection of such impact, through such as altmetrics and media monitoring. Without citing and linking back to the work it becomes harder to track as a story takes on a life of its own through social media and reposts. Linking to the research makes it harder to misreport or cherry pick facts and stats as interested parties are able to check the facts for themselves. At a time when we have been told ‘people have had enough of experts’ and world leaders denouncing scientific fact, proper and accurate reporting of research has never mattered more. There are a few important things librarians can do to support the better reporting of research through encouraging linking to the open access versions and exploring how research is received through altmetrics. This talk will explore the issue and what can be done to tackle it.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both articles can be read in the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cilip.org.uk/resource/group/b0fb1440-7a5e-4f45-b064-a03d568f54a1/news_publications/multimedia_information_and_t.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">latest issue online</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. MmIT is the open access journal for the Cilip special interest group Multimedia Information Technology. You can find out more about MmIT</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201307&id=688338" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here. </a></div>
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Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-25593484996467321172018-05-17T08:00:00.000+01:002018-05-17T08:00:04.177+01:00Andy Tattersall to deliver Keynote at the Business Librarians Association Conference<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqxkeEvG7GyIkSYufKKbTEhyphenhyphenVvZd5jNwQ6GLoUfusBxweEZ93kar1473HcXTgrUBLQskOiIIBGWZ6WhJDncLoBv5CZumSbmKTCpYV7A3hZWBeHypWTRYcPE4Tivgn7PUkfm7kf5amqcA/s1600/971680_685236994835885_1926226347_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="608" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaqxkeEvG7GyIkSYufKKbTEhyphenhyphenVvZd5jNwQ6GLoUfusBxweEZ93kar1473HcXTgrUBLQskOiIIBGWZ6WhJDncLoBv5CZumSbmKTCpYV7A3hZWBeHypWTRYcPE4Tivgn7PUkfm7kf5amqcA/s320/971680_685236994835885_1926226347_n.jpg" width="228" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Information Specialist Andy Tattersall is one of the three keynotes at this year's BLA Conference taking place at Swansea University. The three day conference takes place from 27th-29th June with the theme 'Making Waves'. Andy will be delivering his keynote on the 28th with a talk titled; "<span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;">Staying afloat in a sea of technological change". </span></span><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Two years ago, <strong>Andy Tattersall</strong> highlighted those Twitter accounts that offered some light relief from the often all-too-serious world of academia. This 2018 instalment includes an account “sadly” overlooked last time, as well as moving beyond the Twittersphere to share some the best memes, videos, and more to provide sharp commentary on peer review, academic advisors, and altmetrics.</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In April 2016 I wrote about </span><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/04/13/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-academic-twitter/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the growing number of parody Twitter accounts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that take the best and worst of academia and serve it up as a comedy dish. As the title suggests, many a true word is spoken in jest but we all know that just below the surface lie the real home truths of our industry. The problem, however, for many academics trying to be “witty”, is that they can fall flat on their face. I thought it would be good to visit some of the other tongue-in-cheek academic excursions that capture the weird and wonderful within academia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I wrote the first post it was solely focused on the Twitter community, and sadly neglected to include one of the scholarly Twitterati’s most vocal protagonists - </span><a href="https://twitter.com/scientisttrump?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@ScientistTrump</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. When my post went live I was flattered to receive a tweet from Donald Trump, PhD calling my piece “biased” as it had not included him - he even concluded his tweet with one of the real Donald Trump’s trademark sign-offs: “SAD”. Thankfully the Trump obsession with fake news was not yet in full flow, but I am sure the post and the LSE Impact Blog would have been labelled as such. Whoever is behind this great account - and it is the greatest scientific Twitter account - has expanded to a full </span><a href="http://science2016.us/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a forthcoming web store. Not wanting to inflate that already fully blown narcissistic ego any more, but the tweets are that of a very stable genius and reflect the kind of communication that is typical of President Trump but with a scientific slant applied. For example, in December Donald Trump, PhD proudly reported:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">Given the daily communications coming out of the White House, it is not hard to satirise the 45th President of the United States. Putting an academic spin on The Donald is not so easy but Psychologist Matt Crawford made a good go of it with a fictional paper he published. The paper titled “A title for a really great piece of research, just the best, really” is full of classic Trump boasts, so much so that you will hear Donald’s voice inside your head as you read it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donald Trump’s tweets might make you feel outraged, but imagine how your social media stream would have looked with Hitler kicking and screaming across the web? Putting an academic slant on it, how would he have dealt with </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRBWLpYCPY"><span style="font-weight: 400;">scientific peer review</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">? Thankfully someone took that much-parodied scene in Hitler’s bunker from the film Downfall and re-subtitled it to show how Hitler would have responded to negative comments from the third reviewer. After a raging tirade, the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Führer </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">concedes that maybe he should just submit to one of those new “open access” journals.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Captioned images shared across the web, better known as memes, also offer much light-hearted humour that only those within academia will truly get. Some of the sharpest include the popular memes </span><a href="http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35rm3j"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Boromir</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Lord of the rings) and </span><a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/471681760949686104/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Willy Wonka</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> alongside the tweets from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/researchmark?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Wahlberg </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">and the </span><a href="http://librarianheygirl-blog.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hey Girl. I like the library too</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> blog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every institution has professors who are dapper in their fashion choices and those who look like they have crawled out of a hedge before heading into work. </span><a href="http://www.somody.ca/quiz.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prof or Hobo</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">tests your ability to spot the professors from the tramps. I was made aware of the quiz by a professor in reference to one of his peers who proudly wears his dishevelled look as a badge of honour, actively trying his best to look like he lost a fight with a bear. The site features ten images and for each you simply have to choose whether the man in question is a professor or a hobo. Just remember that looks can be deceiving. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whilst we are on the topic of chairs, there are also the kind you sit on to conduct your research. In case you wondered what happened to them after they were retired from duty, they appear on the </span><a href="http://sadchairsofacademia.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sad Chairs of Academia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> blog. Before they are dispatched to that great office in the sky, they are captured for one last time for this most surreal of blogs. I’m waiting for the best images to be compiled into a 2019 calendar. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Metrics and social media are never are far away from academic discussion, and both are valuable tools in communicating and gauging interest in a piece of research. The two are combined perfectly to calculate the satirical </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashian_Index"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kardashian Index</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where a scientist’s citations are compared to followers on Twitter. Of course citations and Twitter followers are no true measure as to a researcher’s true worth, but those with a high Kardashian Index score could indicate popularity over productivity. We are eagerly awaiting the Kanye West Index.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">For most publishing in the academic sphere, you will no doubt receive regular invites to write for predatory journals. Whilst this issue becomes increasingly problematic there are a few things you can do to tackle these charlatans whilst also having a bit of fun. One idea is to use the tool </span><a href="https://www.rescam.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re:Scam</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which is part of the New Zealand online safety website Netsafe. This tool bounces replies back to scam emailers and keeps them tied up with computer-generated emails. Whether this will work with those actually sending out the phishing messages will be hard to tell, but it’s certainly worth a try in case any are bots. If that fails you can do as I did (in my lunch break) after receiving several requests to publish in a dubious fisheries and agriculture journal. I sent them a PDF formatted manuscript with the word “fish” repeated 6000 times, with a few fishy references to Jacques Cousteau and Michael Fish thrown in too, in addition to a table of different fish. For some reason they did not accept. Nor did they ever contact me again. Funny that.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article originally appeared on the <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/04/03/many-a-true-word-is-spoken-in-jest-part-two-more-social-media-content-that-mocks-self-ridicules-and-brings-a-smile-to-academia/">LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog</a></span></span><br />
<br />Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-24277146450913955422018-03-28T16:06:00.002+01:002018-03-28T16:07:13.186+01:00Calling Australia!Members of the Information Resources team recently hosted an online course for librarians based in Australia. Led by <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/sutton" target="_blank">Anthea Sutton</a>, the FOLIO programme has been delivering web-based CPD courses to library and information professionals for over a decade.<br />
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Recently, FOLIOz (see what we did there?) has been partnering with <a href="http://www.alia.org.au/" target="_blank">ALIA</a>, the Australian Library and Information Association to offer bespoke training catering for the needs identified by its members.<br />
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For the latest course, on Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP for short), Anthea was joined by a small team including Andrew Booth, Helen Buckley Woods and Mark Clowes to design and deliver the course content (which included video lectures, readings and assessed course work); as well as facilitating the group discussion boards and hosting two live webinars (a particular challenge given the time difference between ourselves in the UK and our participants "down under"). We were also delighted to welcome <a href="https://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/BRETTLE312.jsp" target="_blank">Professor Alison Brettle</a> (from Salford University) to deliver a guest lecture on the future of EBLIP.<br />
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The course attracted participants from a range of sectors, including education and public libraries as well as from health - all keen to apply an evidence-based approach to solving problems and achieving best practice in the settings of their different services.<br />
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If you are interested in discussing how FOLIO could help with the training needs of your library/information team, please get in touch with us at <a href="mailto:folio@sheffield.ac.uk">folio@sheffield.ac.uk</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andy Tattersall (ScHARR Information Resources) and Dr Chris Carroll (ScHARR Health Economics and Decision Science) have published a new paper in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. The paper looked at published University of Sheffield research and what the data says
about the impact of its research on national and international policy.
The percentage of outputs with at least one policy mention compares
favourably with previous studies, while huge variations were found
between the time of publication and the time of the first policy
citation. However, some problems with the quality of the data were
identified, highlighting the need for careful scrutiny and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Altmetrics offers all kinds of insights
into how a piece of research has been communicated and cited. In 2014
Altmetric.com added policy document tracking to its sources of
attention, offering another valuable insight into how research outputs
are used post-publication. At the University of Sheffield we thought it
would be useful to explore the Altmetric.com data for policy document
citations to see what impact our work is having on national and
international policy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We analysed all published research from
authors at the University of Sheffield indexed in the Altmetric.com
database; a total of 96,550 research outputs, of which we were able to
identify 1,463 pieces of published research cited between one and 13
times in policy. This represented 0.65% of our research outputs. Of
these 1,463 artefacts, 21 were cited in five or more policy documents,
with the vast majority – 1,185 documents – having been cited just once.
Our sample compared very well with previous studies by <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2237-2">Haunschild and Bornmann</a>, who looked at papers indexed in Web of Science and found 0.5% were cited in policy, and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124030/">Bornmann, Haunschild and Marx</a>,
who found 1.2% of climate change research publications with at least
one policy mention. From our sample we found 92 research articles cited
in three or more policy documents. Of those 92 we found medicine,
dentistry, and health had the greatest policy impact, followed by social
science and pure science.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We also wanted to explore whether research
published by the University of Sheffield had a limited time span
between publication and policy citation. We looked at the time lag and
found it ranged from just three months to 31 years. This highlighted a
long tail of publications influencing policy, something we would have
struggled to identify prior to Altmetric.com without manual trawling.
The earliest piece of research from our sample to be cited in policy was
published in 1979 and took until 2010 before receiving its first policy
citation. We manually checked the records as we found many pre-1979
publications to have been published much later, often this century. This
is likely due to misreported data in the institutional dataset, giving a
false date; highlighting the need to manually check such records for
authenticity. The shortest time between research publication and policy
citation was a mere three months: a paper published in November 2016 and
first cited in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
policy in January 2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Altmetric.com reports are only as good
as the data they analyse and our research did uncover some errors.
Looking at those 21 papers with more than five policy document
citations, we found seven were not fit for inclusion. One such example
was identified when we discovered research papers had been attributed to
the University of Sheffield when the authors were not, in fact,
affiliated to the university. As this data is sourced from our research
publications system, we assume this was a mistake made by the author;
this can happen when authors incorrectly accept as their own papers
suggested to them by the system. While this was almost certainly a
genuine error, and may have been rectified later, the system had not yet
updated to take account of such corrections. Another of these papers
was mistakenly attributed to an author who had no direct involvement in
the paper but who was part of a related wider research project. Another
of the publications was excluded due to it not, in fact, having actually
been cited in the relevant policy document. One of the papers that was
included belonged to an author not at Sheffield at the time of
publication, but who has since joined the institution. This showed that
Altmetric.com’s regular updates were able to discover updated
institutional information and realign authors with their current
employer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The two most cited papers came from our
own department, the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), in
the field of health economics. Only two of the 14 most cited
publications were in a field other than health economics or pure
economics, both of which were in environmental studies. In total, the 14
most cited research outputs were cited by 175 policy documents, but we
identified 9% (16) of these as duplicates. Of those 175 citations we
found that 61% (107) were national, i.e. from the UK, and 39% (68) were
international, i.e. from countries other than the UK or from
international bodies such as the United Nations or World Health
Organization.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Altmetric.com continues to add further
policy sources to its database to trawl for citations. As a result, it
should follow that our sample of 1,463 research outputs will not only
grow with more fresh policy citations, but as older research citations
are identified through new policy sources of attention. This work also
highlights the importance of research outputs having unique identifiers
so they can be tracked through altmetric platforms; it is certain that
more of our research will be cited in policy, but if no unique
identifier is attached, especially to older outputs, it is unlikely the
Altmetric.com system will pick it up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Altmetric.com is a very useful indicator
of interest in and influence of research within global policy. Yet there
are clearly problems with the quality of the data and how it is
attributed to subsequent Altmetric.com data. We found one third of our
sample of the 21 most cited research outputs had been erroneously
attributed to an institution or author. Whether this is representative
of the whole dataset only further studies will find out. Therefore it is
essential that any future explorations of research outputs and policy
document citations be double-checked and not taken on face value.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>This blog post is based on the authors’ article, “</em><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2017.00009/full"><em>What
Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An
Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University
of Sheffield</em></a><em>”, published in Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (DOI: 10.3389/frma.2017.00009).</em></span></span></div>
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Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-88490076991128321772018-01-08T13:41:00.000+00:002018-01-08T13:41:58.952+00:00New research must be better reported, the future of society depends on it<figure><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="File 20171220 4954 1k92h2l.jpg?ixlib=rb 1.1" height="249" src="https://images.theconversation.com/files/200238/original/file-20171220-4954-1k92h2l.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip" width="400" />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Newspaper articles, TV appearances and radio slots are <a href="https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-explaining-things-to-normal-people-can-help-scientists-be-better-at-their-jobs-84619">increasingly important</a> ways for academics to <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-scientists-should-communicate-their-work-in-a-post-truth-era-75420">communicate their research to wider audiences</a>. Whether that be the latest health research findings or discoveries from the deepest, darkest parts of the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this way, the internet can also help to facilitate these channels of communication – as well as discussions between academics, funders and publishers, and citizen scientists and the general public.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet all too often research-led stories start with “<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/just-10-rivers-carry-90-of-plastic-polluting-the-oceans-11167581">researchers have found</a>”, with little mention of their names, institution and who funded their work. And the problem is that by reporting new research in this way, it fails to break down the stereotypical image of an ivory tower. For all readers know these “researchers” might as well be wearing white lab coats with the word “boffin” on their name badges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">News is now a 24-hour operation. Rolling coverage of stories means journalists have their work cut out in maintaining this cycle. But that is no excuse for missing out important pieces of information that underpin a story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take for example a story relating to health research that has wide ranging societal impact. Supporting evidence, links and named academics help a story’s authenticity and credibility. And at a time when “<a href="https://www.snopes.com/category/facts/science/">fake news</a>” is an increasingly sticky problem it becomes essential to link to the actual research and therefore the facts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is important, because research goes through a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review">peer review</a> process where experts in the same field of research critically assess the work before it can be published. This is similar to news stories that are edited to ensure they are of good quality – although this process takes far less time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In academia there has been a huge move to make research <a href="https://openaccessbutton.org/">openly available</a> and therefore accessible for the whole of society. While research institutions are making great strides in public engagement and the wider understanding of science, media organisations still remain instrumental in that process. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And while it’s been claimed that the public are <a href="https://theconversation.com/sorry-michael-gove-we-really-do-need-experts-heres-why-62000">tired of experts</a>, the impact they have on society – from building skyscrapers to keeping us alive – is undoubtedly fundamental to our existence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But poor or incomplete reporting undermines respect for experts by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw">misrepresenting the research</a>, especially by trivialising or sensationalising it. So while academics from various disciplines are often willing to talk to the media – either as an author or from an independent expert viewpoint – misreporting of research and particularly data (whether intentional or unintentional) has a negative effect. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Academics are then vilified as having something to hide or accused of making up their research, while members of the public are exposed to unnecessary anxiety and stress by inappropriate headlines and cherry picked statistics that are reported in a biased way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The public good</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course, not everyone will want to check the citations and research outputs – and not everyone has the critical skills to assess a piece of specialised academic writing. Yet there are lots of people who, given the opportunity, would be interested in reading more about a research topic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Media coverage opens up a democratic debate, allows people to explore the works of an accomplished researcher and helps the <a href="https://theconversation.com/for-a-scientist-there-really-is-no-such-thing-as-a-stupid-question-36945">public understanding of science</a>. And in this way, fair and accurate reporting of research encourages academics to be willing to work with the media more regularly and build good working relationships. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="The Conversation" height="1" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/87407/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" width="1" />Not only that, but the proper and accurate communication of science is beneficial to the whole of society – from the government to its citizens. So in the age of “fake news” it is more important than ever to make sure that what’s being published is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This article was originally published on <a href="http://theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a>. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/new-research-must-be-better-reported-the-future-of-society-depends-on-it-87407">original article</a>.</span></div>
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I often want to try something new at work to see if I can improve on my previous efforts. However, the more routine (required) demands are always compete for my time too 😒 Sound familiar?</div>
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Whether you’re a super busy student or a new professional, keep reading to learn a new way to organise your work tasks and make focused progress 👍</div>
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At the start of the year I ran a “goodie bag promo” project and as a result our small library is getting more footfall, more inquiries and more complex questions, which is really nice to see. However, it does mean further time constraints.<br />
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I got sick of 'To Do' lists mine always looked messy or I lost them or had seven going at once so I inevitably forgot things they were meant to remind me to do! <b>🙅</b>📝<br />
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One of the things that has enabled me to up my capacity, without forgetting any important things, was starting to use a Personal Kanban board. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-22115167141027329752017-11-27T15:46:00.002+00:002017-11-27T15:47:47.164+00:00Andy Tattersall talk at Spot On 2017 at The Francis Crick Institute<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy Tattersall gave a short lightning talk on the title: "<strong>Isn't it time we had a research equivalent of the learning technologist?</strong>" at this year's Spot On Conference at The Francis Crick Institute. The recording of the talk and the questions afterwards can be viewed below with the abstract.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03251892126822286482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-43751531328276475172017-11-16T10:23:00.001+00:002017-11-16T10:28:17.176+00:00Andy Tattersall named as a Jisc Social Media Superstar for 2017<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andy Tattersall has been named in Jisc's top ten HE Social Media Superstars of 2017. Andy was nominated for the award after his work creating<span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/scharrvids"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">ScHARR’s
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">YouTube channel</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Andy’s video series’ include </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCibJ1MwLXY"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ScHARR Bite Size series</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>– <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which teaches the viewer
“something new in 20 minutes”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mJ7IZ3qFxjR8HhL9HX-ETHUFJz639Bt"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Research Hacks</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> series </span></span><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">contains 44
helpful videos, and the more recent</span> </span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/iPw77ojQlNY"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cite
Hacks</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> series features
engaging illustrations and information – such as this video that covers </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uybYxr4SryA"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blogging about your research. </span></span></a><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;">Judges’ comments: </span><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;">Andy’s use of YouTube playlists to give bite-sized information is a really effective way to share knowledge simply with colleagues and peers across the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought the Cite Hacks series was particularly is good.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></div>
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education is now in a continual state of change thanks to the web and social
media, it offers a wealth of new opportunities for teaching and learning,
knowledge sharing and opening up of our resources across the globe. Video plays
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</span><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/Andy_Tattersall"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">@Andy_Tattersall</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Andy can be found tweeting from </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/ScHARRSheffield"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">@ScHARRSheffield
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ten list, but also wins an edtech experience for their class, robot and virtual
reality included. The competition sets out to celebrate the innovative ways in
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line-up was chosen by a panel of HE and social media experts, including; Jisc’s
social media team, </span></span><a href="https://www.jisc.ac.uk/staff/sarah-knight"><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah Knight</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "corbel" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (head of change – student experience),
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activity. We saw great examples of reaching vast audiences with a single
message on platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, as well as making big
impacts on a small, defined audiences in closed and private networks. There’s
no question that social media can be highly resource intensive so being able to
demonstrate the value it delivers is vital and our superstars were able to do
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was really delighted to be interviewed by Laura Rooney Ferris for the popular Librarians Aloud Podcast alongside Jan Holmquist. In the podcast I talk about scholarly communications, digital academia, open access and data. You can listen to the podcast <a href="https://soundcloud.com/librariansaloud/episode-018-andy-tattersall-jan-holmquist-ili2017?platform=hootsuite">here</a> </span></div>
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<br />Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-26541882930029282882017-10-19T15:50:00.003+01:002017-10-19T15:50:58.926+01:00Andy Tattersall at Internet Librarian International<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As with the previous six years (it might be longer), I attended the popular and exciting conference Internet Librarian International. I've given numerous talks there over the last few years and had a year off last year to moderate a really superb session titled 'Come and feel the love'. This year I returned to the speakers lectern, not to deliver one, two, but three talks. I had pitched two in which were accepted and had an invite by the conference organisers to make it a trio. This put me in the brackets as such luminaries Phil Bradley and Marydee Ojala by giving multiple talks this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first was at the end of day one where I talked about the video collections I have created as part of my role using tools like Adobe Spark and Videoscribe. I was alongside a really good presentation on content creation by The King's Fund by Hong-Anh Nguyen (a member of Sheffield's iSchool Alumni) and Deena Maggs. With three presentations, I felt like I was going into a sporting tournament where I was keen to get my first fixture under my belt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next one followed after hearing David White from The University of Arts deliver a superb keynote. David is a very engaging speaker who I've had the pleasure of delivering a webinar alongside him for Jobs.ac.uk a couple of years ago. His talk was on the opportunities to be had for librarians in a world of misinformation and people looking for quick and agreeable answers. I then gave my talk on the future or research support and potential roles that could appear in the future to deliver them at the coal face of research. I was introduced by Phil Bradley which was a real pleasure and was fortunate to have quite a packed room for the session. At the the end there was some useful debate as to where we might be going with this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, to finish on a high note I presented in the same session as four wonderful Irish librarians who between them have created two really informative and entertaining podcast series for their institutions - pretty much in their own time. The first of the talks was delivered by the team who the produce <a href="https://soundcloud.com/librariansaloud">LibrariansAloud Podcast</a> which regularly interviews professionals from within the library and information sector. I was also pleased to be in the same session as colleagues who deliver the enjoyable <a href="https://soundcloud.com/shush-radio-486769527">Shush Radio Podcast</a> who spoke about their work making podcasts to promote their library service at University College Cork. My talk was about the work that myself and fellow ScHARR information specialist Mark Clowes undertakes each year to run a 24 hour pop up radio station to support the<a href="https://inspirationforlifeblog.wordpress.com/"> Inspiration for Life</a> event to raise funds for local cancer charities. As a result of the session I was taken off to a quiet spot to be interviewed by Laura Rooney Ferris from LibrariansAloud for a future podcast, where you will hear us solve most of the world's problems with the aid of good quality information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As always Internet Librarian International is a well run conference with lots of energy that brings together regular faces as well as new ones. There was even a session for new professionals to help them on the right track career-wise. Another bonus of a really enjoyable conference was hearing that my book had sold out on the Facet Publisher's table, although I'm fairly certain they will have only packed one. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below are all my slides from the conference, the 24 Hour Inspire set seem to have gone strange after being imported into Slideshare, apologies for that. Seriously, who would want to work with technology?</span><br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tatman303/app-hacks-how-to-curate-educational-apps" target="_blank" title="App hacks – how to curate educational apps">App hacks – how to curate educational apps</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tatman303" target="_blank">Andy Tattersall</a></strong> <br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tatman303/supporting-the-modern-research-cycle" target="_blank" title="Supporting the modern research cycle ">Supporting the modern research cycle </a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tatman303" target="_blank">Andy Tattersall</a></strong> <br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tatman303/24-hour-inspire-popup-radio-station-internet-librarian-international-80784512" target="_blank" title="24 Hour Inspire pop-up radio station - Internet Librarian International 2017">24 Hour Inspire pop-up radio station - Internet Librarian International 2017</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/tatman303" target="_blank">Andy Tattersall</a></strong> </div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-18450862026629767922017-10-06T15:41:00.000+01:002017-12-14T16:20:20.568+00:00Should Academic Libraries offer a policy or service for Text Data Mining?<div style="color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif;">
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Text Data Mining (TDM) is not completely unheard of within
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">TDM is a way of analysing data computationally. It can be used to look for themes and sentiment within documents or to compare documents’ word usage or sentence structure to determine similarity.</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><br /><br />Why is TDM Important?</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">On undertaking our interviews we were able to find researchers from all five of the University of Sheffield’s subject faculties, including Mark Clowes, Information Specialist at ScHARR. These methods are being used widely, beyond computer science. However those researchers interviewed often spoke of a need for programming or statistical knowledge to be able to exploit the technology to its fullest extent.</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><br /><br />How Could an Academic Library Support TDM?</span></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Academic libraries already host information and digital literacy skills programs, maintain publisher connections and content collections. In addition they have copyright specialists and have subject-neutral spaces. These key assets could help researchers access the information they need and counter the legal challenges of TDM to support its growth.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Erica and Bálint decided to release this report in to the wild thanks
to the recommendation of our supervisor, Dr Andrew Cox, and our
interview participants — many of whom found the end result of interest.</span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><br /></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week, ScHARR Library welcomed our new Postgrad students. Information Specialists, <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/ir/staff/clairebeecroft" target="">Claire Beecroft</a> and <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds/staff/clowes_m" target="">Mark Clowes</a>, delivered an information skills session teaching students about searching for literature. ScHARR Library even created some goodie bags for the occasion!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The library is a place to work within the department, use the PCs and Chromebooks or sit on the soft seats for a coffee and a chat. The meeting table is also bookable for group work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="color: #666666;">Here are our </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/scharrintro17?vertical=default&src=hash">#ScHARRIntro17</a></span><span id="goog_1942778239"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1942778240"></span><span style="color: #666666;"> tips for new ScHARR students:</span></span></h3>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Improve your assignments by working on your information skills – try the <a href="http://ow.ly/zEHk30fdxp1">IRIS</a> quizzes on MOLE to find out how good you really are at finding and organising</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our books and dissertations can be searched through our catalogue <a href="https://scharrlibrary.slls.online/"><span id="goog_1942778125"></span>here</a> (Note: our items are <b>not</b> on StarPlus)</span></li>
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Fun afternoon listening to <a href="https://twitter.com/Shush_radio">@Shush_radio</a> getting some goodies together for our new <a href="https://twitter.com/scharrlib">@scharrlib</a> students 🔊🎶 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/iamalibrarian?src=hash">#iamalibrarian</a> <a href="https://t.co/1xpuAnDSKO">pic.twitter.com/1xpuAnDSKO</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-89014915041853363832017-09-14T15:29:00.003+01:002017-09-14T15:29:48.385+01:00Cite Hacks - A new video series to support scholarly communications, digital academia and gain a few extra citations (hopefully)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the last couple of years I have created three series of videos to help researchers and academics make more out of technology and the web to support their work. The first series was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1mJ7IZ3qFxjR8HhL9HX-ETHUFJz639Bt">Research Hacks</a> which appeared in 2015, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0RlC5bHut0&list=PL1mJ7IZ3qFxg5zCfTCrIFT1yo1L2cur0q">Learn Hacks</a> followed shortly and then last year <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHOBZqjznR8&list=PL1mJ7IZ3qFxjqRJLi4L_tFVTUPiKosah1">App Hacks</a> was launched. You might notice a bit of a theme here, but the purpose of these videos are to offer quick and simple suggestions for the progressive academic to work differently. They were part instructional and part inspirational and focused on a myriad of technologies, tools, websites and opportunities. The videos are usually shorter than three minutes long and are an introduction to such topics and how I can help others take advantage of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cite Hacks are about what academics can do to improve their chances of getting cited. More than that, the videos are about making your research easier to discover and exploit fresh opportunities within digital academia. There is conflicting evidence as to the many ways you can improve citations but these videos offer opportunities for explore much more. If you don't try then you won't know. The exercise of blogging, making data and research open, using social media and using better keywords and titles are all part of where academia is heading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Myself and Alison McNab (University of Huddersfield) delivered a workshop of the Northern Collaboration Conference held at The University of York. The conference is a regular joint event between 27 northern based university libraries. Our workshop explored the potential for the creation of a specialist role that helped support research that was very much aligned to the library and information community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The workshop was an opportunity to ask attendees what digital, research and library competencies they already had that could contribute to the role of an academic/research technologist. We asked them to suggest other attributes form our list and then chose which ones they would most like to focus on. It was a really good opportunity to discuss these embryonic ideas at the conference. The findings from this workshop will form more presentations and writing as we explore this idea further. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our slides and abstract are below. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This session will provide delegates with an overview of the digital research landscape, an introduction to tools and resources to tame the landscape, the opportunity to consider the skillsets required in the context of their own workplace, and an introduction to the research technologist manifesto. Please bring a mobile device (and your Eduroam password) to contribute to this interactive session.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers increasingly need to understand a multitude of topics including digital copyright, impact, altmetrics, communications, social media, research data management and sharing, open access, infographics, video, animation and mobile apps. Yet all too often they have little time, support or encouragement to explore these topics and have they need to make informed judgements on the most appropriate technologies. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For decades skilled LIS professionals have provided researchers with excellent services around collection management, content curation and discovery, critical appraisal and reference management. More recently they have stepped into new areas of support and applied their knowledge around social media, metrics, scholarly communications and research data management. Given that the modern LIS professional is adept of working across platforms, good at problem solving and the use of new technologies, are they positioned to guide and work alongside researchers as research technologists?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-69566458532087749722017-08-01T09:00:00.000+01:002017-08-01T09:00:10.229+01:00Andy Tattersall featured in new ebook on digital academia<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Andy Tattersall has been featured in a new e book by Jobs ac uk called 'The Digital Academic. It comes off the back of a talk he delivered for Jobs ac uk in 2015 at The University of Warwick alongside Dr Inger Mewburn and Dr Nadine Muller.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The talks were all about digital academia and using technology to be a modern academic, Andy's talk is below. The book offers useful on how to use social media, blogs, altmetrics and productivity tools as part of the academic process. The book is short, snappy and offers introductory advice as to help the novice explore some of the tools and ideas easily. Of course with is beign an online book there are plenty of links to further resources and tools. You can read the book <a href="http://www.jobs.ac.uk/media/pdf/careers/resources/the-digital-academic.pdf" target="_blank">here </a></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03251892126822286482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-10367227040573821102017-07-25T15:32:00.000+01:002017-07-25T15:32:05.671+01:00Article on Information Overload in The Statesman by Andy Tattersall<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Andy Tattersall has published an invited piece on information overload in the Indian newspaper The Statesman. The piece came off the back of his 2017 Pint of Science talk on how to deal with information overload. His article looks at different ways of creating protected periods of time for work and personal pursuits. It also includes a few extreme options such as having a NoPhone or using Pavlok to discharge an electric shock if you spend too much time on Facebook. The article can be <a href="http://www.thestatesman.com/science/give-yourself-a-break-1500774724.html" target="_blank">read here</a> and slides from his Pint of Science talk are below.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03251892126822286482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442402446947633456.post-31935863117575458032017-07-24T09:00:00.000+01:002017-07-24T09:00:09.645+01:00Book Review: Communicating Your Research With Social Media: A Practical Guide to Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Video <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>With Communicating Your Research with Social Media: A Practical Guide to Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Video, authors Amy Mollett, Cheryl Brumley, Chris Gilson and Sierra Williams offer a definitive guide to communicating research using different social media tools. Reflecting on the utility of social media to all facets of the research landscape and lifecycle, this is a valuable book that will encourage readers to find the right platform for their voice, writes Andy Tattersall. </b></div>
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Social media, like most of the web, is a cross between a goldfield and a minefield. There are opportunities aplenty for those who engage with it, but also many potential problems lurking below the surface. For most academics, it still appears an unknown land when they come at it from a wholly professional perspective. There are those who know what they are doing, and often doing it well; there are those who are not engaging with social media at all; and there are those who are but just aren’t sure why. All three groups can benefit from a book like <i>Communicating Your Research with Social Media: A Practical Guide to Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Vide</i>o, as no matter what you think you know about social media as part of your research communication, it probably isn’t enough.</div>
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This is because social media is in a constant state of flux, always changing and always spiralling off into new areas. Like the gold- and minefield analogy, many of these require some degree of support to help navigate them successfully. Whether you are new to Twitter or mastering video, podcasts and blogging as part of your research communication lifecycle, you still have things to learn. This title begins quite rightly at the theoretical and historical end of social media, which it covers in adequate depth. As with learning to drive, there is the practical and there is the theoretical: the latter in this case helps put some flesh on the bones as to why the web is how it is and what that means to anyone working in academia. The authors do this really well as they start out by defining social media from its early beginnings right up to recent times and how it has impacted for change on a global scale, such as through the Arab Spring and the Black Lives Matter campaign.</div>
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Contrary to many people’s beliefs about social media in an academic setting, it is not just about learning to use a new technology: it is not like unpacking your new kettle, looking for the ‘on’ switch and making your first cup of tea. It requires a reason to use that technology and considerations around that choice, which this book explains throughout. You can be told to use Twitter as it will help share your research, but you need to understand what the benefits will be as well as the potential barriers and costs. Thankfully, this book highlights those considerations through each practical chapter.</div>
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Quite importantly, the research lifecycle and social media are also given their own chapter as both are not mentioned in close proximity to each other nearly enough. Yet, to myself and the authors, these two spheres seem to have been destined to be together for quite some time now. For those familiar with the research lifecycle as it exists, in Chapter Two the authors present their own iteration broken into six areas: Inspiration, Collaboration, Primary Research, Dissemination, Engagement and Impact. Social media is linked to all six, and the book addresses those connections to reflect on what the research landscape looks like for those who have embraced these digital opportunities.</div>
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The next four chapters are well-signposted and cover the main areas of interest: writing blog posts; creating infographics and visualisations; making audio and podcasts; and creating videos and images for social media. Each sets out to define these areas as there are plenty of academics still unsure what each element is and how it applies to their world. So the book’s approach is to work from the basics upwards and give clear signposting along the way.</div>
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The blog chapter tackles that most fundamental of problems: ‘what to write about?’ Advice on this and how to structure your blog (with the temptation being to just write a shorter version of your research paper) are plenty as well as on applying the right tone. Careful consideration is also given as to what platforms to go to when first starting your blog. The tone is light and positive so that anyone coming in from a basic level entrypoint will not feel overwhelmed by the content. The chapters regularly pause to ask questions to guide the reader towards understanding the reason for applying any of these digital approaches to their research communication, whilst also containing no shortage of textual and visual examples of cases studies to inspire the reader to consider as part of their own application.</div>
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The chapters also make clear connections between what a tool is and how it can be applied in research communication: an area many academics fail to link. For those looking to overhaul their research practices, keen to communicate their findings and ideas and to future proof their work, the book is a good place to start. Useful waypoints are added throughout the book so you can assess your progress before launching any new social content. The temptation when given new creative tools is to rush and get content out there for your peers and the world to see. Yet if the data is distorted, unreadable or not properly labelled and branded, you could be left with problems. Thankfully, the book sets out key checkpoints throughout to negate that, a good example being the infographics and data visualisation checklist which asks seven important questions before publishing your poster and data. The book also comes with <a href="https://study.sagepub.com/mollett" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;">a useful companion website</a> that includes blog posts on everything from social media and the research lifecycle to guides on using Twitter and making podcasts.</div>
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<i>Communicating your Research with Social Media</i> does not require the reader to start at page one and work through it in a linear fashion. As with many books, it can be digested in one large sitting or bit-by-bit as and when needed. How you engage with this book will also depend on your level of ability to use social media professionally: it is important to note a difference here between this and how you use it on a personal level. The book is aimed at a very wide market: from students to established academics, from professional support staff to journal publishers and funding bodies, all will have useful things to take away from the text.</div>
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As with<a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/social-media-book/" style="color: red; text-decoration-line: none;"> other work </a>written by the authors about social media in research, this book is another valuable addition to the collection. Of course, with everything social media these days, there is no getting away from Donald Trump, who is mentioned six times. But his appearance is a reminder that in these uncertain times, with the suppression of experts and research evidence, it has never been a more crucial period for academics to learn new digital skills. The authors conclude that the research lifecycle has in many ways always been a social process, so it should make good sense to employ new digital technologies of communication to aid that. By communicating your research, not only can academics build networks and possibilities for collaboration, gather evidence of impact and share their research, but they can be a voice of truth in a world of fake news. To do this they must first find a platform for their voice, and this book will set them off on the right path or move them further along it.</div>
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