Digital Scholarship @ Leiden - outreach https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/ en r.m.de.jong@library.leidenuniv.nl Copyright 2019 2019-02-11T09:19:00+00:00 Get Kudos For Your Work https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/kudos https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/kudos#When:09:19:00Z We all want recognition for our work. Find out how the Kudos service can help your science communication efforts and get your work seen and discussed by a larger audience.]]>

Kudos are the praises you reap once you've successfully completed a project or assignment. And when are kudos more appropriate than when you've just published an article? And while a pat on the back is nice, it is more interesting (and perhaps rewarding) to see your work discussed. Kudos, the service that is, offers you a way to not only easily share your work, so you can get that discussion going, but it also lets you track how effective your science communication is through the aggregation of different metrics, such as clicks, views, downloads at the publisher site, citations, and altmetrics.

Why would it help you?

Using Kudos and its article profiles would not only give you a central place to find altmetrics for your article, but other data as well, not just at the article level but at the sharing level as well. Kudos creates a shareable link that, when you share it through email or social media, tracks the click-throughs to the page and its contents. This way you could try different outreach strategies and see which ones yield the best results.

In addition, having to create a layman's abstract for the profile can crystallise your project and your talking points. In a way it is a textual version of Famelab, where the having to write the layman's explanation is similar to having to pitch your research within three minutes. Since communicating your research to a broader audience than just your fellow academics is becoming more and more important to gain funding, investing time in developing better science communication skills and strategies might be worth your effort. They will not only help you reach a broader audience, they might also enable you to reach more peers, which might increase your citation count as well. Kudos and its article profile format can be a tool to improve on these skills.

More information

Visit the Kudos In Depth page for more information or visit www.growkudos.com directly to view promotional videos, find more information or sign up.

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Altmetrics, 2019-02-11T09:19:00+00:00
Teaching Through Tumblr https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/teaching-through-tumblr https://digitalscholarshipleiden.nl/articles/teaching-through-tumblr#When:09:19:00Z As a somewhat less formal, or even frankly informal, form of communication Tumblr has a low barrier to engagement and as such can serve as a great way to interact with many types of public and for many different aims.]]>

As a somewhat less formal, or even frankly informal, form of communication Tumblr has a low barrier to engagement and as such can serve as a great way to interact with many types of public and for many different aims. For example, it can not only be used as a research tool, but as a teaching tool as well. There are many ways in which the network can be used. It can be used as a virtual extension of the classroom, where students can interact, share experiences, or ask questions, or as an alternate digital syllabus. But more often it is used as an alternative way of completing class projects. Whether it is a group blog where the entire class posts assignments, a group project, or a final (solo) assignment, creating a final report on Tumblr allows for creative approaches and the incorporation of multimedia elements, such as photo's, videos, and audio clips. This will also bring a greater need to educate students on the basics of copyrights and plagiarism, for which Tumblr is again a great source of examples, both of how to do it right and how to do it wrong. Using Tumblr as a teaching tool can create fascinating projects that live on after the course is finished, such as this "art-piece-turned-website".

Tumblr as outreach

Another element that is connected both to research and teaching is outreach. Trying to generate interest in your subject and attention for your research or showcasing what you've accomplished is a good way of creating a loop back to your regular website where people can discover even more about your work. Often these sorts of Tumblrs are official blogs to showcase research done at a particular institute or university, research on a particular topic, or to show other accomplishments such as this Tumblr, which was created as the digital version of our library's annual report for last year (in Dutch.) They can also be the group effort of academics working to interest people in their field, be it medieval book history, sociology, or science.

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