This workshop will provide you with practical strategies and tips for promoting your scholarship, increasing your citations, and monitoring your success. You’ll also learn how to understand metrics, use scholarly networking tools, evaluate journals and publishing options, and take advantage of funding opportunities for Open Access scholarship.

1. Copyright & Fair Use for Digital Projects
Managing & Maximizing
Your Scholarly Impact
Office of Scholarly
Communication Services
Maria Gould, M.A., MLIS

2. Why should we
care about
impact?

3. What does impact
mean for you?

4. Measures of impact can...

5. Measures of impact can’t...
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6. Types of metrics

7. The metrics
ecosystem
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8. metrics-toolkit.org

9. Author-level
metrics
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10. Journal-level
metrics
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11. Article-level
metrics
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12. Metrics for
data, code, &
software
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13. Alt-metrics ●
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14. Sum up: meaning & uses of metrics
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15. One metric alone
can’t tell the
whole story of
your work or
career

16. What can you do
to manage &
maximize your
impact?

17. First, think about
your goals

18. Then:
Develop & execute a personal plan
Get your
work seen
& cited
Promote
your work
&
be social
Set up a
personal
profile

19. 1.
Get your
work seen
& cited

20. Choose the right
outlet for your work

21. Think beyond the
article

22. Develop multiple pieces
on your topic

23. Make your scholarship
Open Access

24. Use persistent
identifiers

25. 2.
Set up a
scholarly
profile

26. Humanities Commons

27. Google Scholar profiles

28. ImpactStory Profile

29. 3.
Promote your
work &
be social

30. Academic &
professional social
networks

31. Other strategies

32. Impact
stories

37. Develop & execute a personal plan
Get your
work seen
& cited
Promote
your work
&
be social
Set up a
personal
profile

38. Make a plan for right now

39. Make a plan for the longer-term
+ Check in regularly on your plan & update it as needed!

40. What does your plan look like?
Get your
work seen
& cited
Promote
your work
&
be social
Set up a
personal
profile

41. What would you
like to discuss?

42. THANK YOU!
Let’s talk more…
E-mail:
schol-comm@berkeley.edu
Twitter: @UCB_scholcomm