1. Science intelligence and web
tools for communication
Katarina Evengård 2012

2. Blogs
Many blogs today focus on science!
• Forskarbloggen (SLU)
Blog portals for academic blogs (wide subject area
coverage)
• ScienceBlogs
• Focus on Lund University (blogs by researchers and
students)

3. Social networking
Focus:
• being visible in your research community
• networking/exchanging ideas with other scholars
• ResearchGate
• Nature network
• Academia.edu
• LinkedIn

4. Social bookmarking
Allows users to:
• bookmark items on the web, create own library or link collection
• access bookmarks from any computer
• share bookmarks with others
• find new resources through other user’s bookmarks
• being visible, get in contact with other researchers
Some social bookmarking sites:
• Delicious (general)
• CiteULike (academic)
• Mendeley (academic)

5. copyright
provides resources
Creative Commons
that you can legally
It also provides a tool
my CC stickers have arrived!!! by laihiu available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/290630500/
for managing your own
copy, modify and reuse
CRICOS No. 00213J
under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence

6. Licences
4 licence elements:
Attribution – attribute the author
Noncommercial – no commercial use
No Derivative Works – no changes allowed
ShareAlike – changes allowed, but only if
you put the new work under the same
licence
CRICOS No. 00213J

7. Licences
Attribution
More
accommodating
Attribution-ShareAlike
Attribution-NoDerivatives
Attribution-Noncommercial
Attribution-Noncommercial-
ShareAlike
More restrictive
Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives

8. Share and use
• Slideshare
Upload and share your presentations - and find ones to
use yourself!
• Flickr
• Find images that you are allowed to use in your work
(check the Creative commons license!)
• http://search.creativecommons.org/

9. RSS feeds
= available feed

10. RSS feeds to Outlook
Information about RSS and how you can add RSS feeds to Outlook.

11. Other ways to manage feeds
• Google reader
• Netvibes

12. Twitter
• “Using Twitter in university research, teaching
and impact activities - A guide for academics
and Researchers”
• Follow other people and sources and build up an
instant, personalized Twitter feed that meets your
full range of interests.

13. This presentation is built on the slideshows Creative Commons in the
Classroom (CC-license BY-NC ) and Creative Commons For Educators (CC-
licence BY ) by Jessica Coates and Creative Commons License Basics 2010
by Sue Gallaway (CC-licence BY )