orcid-ca/us community call
what I talk about when I talk about researcher profiles and platforms
mike nason // open scholarship & publishing librarian, unb libraries
// crossref & metadata liaison, public knowledge project
inside baseball:
a disclaimer
managing
expectations
(of others)
(your)
researchers are under an enormous amount of pressure
researchers are very tired and/or busy people
some researchers are also, rightly, worried about being boiled down into simple, reductive numbers and compared to one another
if folks are taking the time to hear you out about scholar profiles at all that is a kind of victory
and, please remember that adopting or migrating to a new platform will require labour
you only need to hit the boat
platforms
the usual suspects
- orcid
- scopus id (elsevier)
- researcher id (tr)
- google scholar
- academia.edu
- researchgate
- personal web pages
- pre-print servers
- repositories
- cris systems
- discord
- slack
research profile
social media
communities of practice
vs
vs
social media
social media
also social media
social media
- venture capital-funded
- for-profit
- sells data, or...
- sells ads, or...
- sells partnerships
- not yours
- ephemeral
the objective of social media platforms is to make money
-
researchgate
- $87.6M in funding
- lead investor:
goldman sachs
-
academia.edu
- $38.8M in funding
- lead investor:
tencent
social media
-
benefits
- specifically made to facilitate connections
- as ubiquitous as they are easy to use
-
drawbacks
- if you think facebook is gross, so are these
-
context
- vc-funding means these companies are dedicated to a return on investment
- investors may have an outsized influence
communities of practice
communities of practice
communities of practice
communities of practice
communities of practice
-
benefits
- more eyes on research
- keeping up with new developments
- limited and intentional
-
drawbacks
- platform dependent
-
context
- platform dependent
research profiles
research profiles
google scholar
- ubiquitous
- effective
- outsized influence
- undersized staff
- could be gone tomorrow
scopus id
- elsevier-owned
- can integrate with ORCID
- too big to fail
- inevitable metadata headaches
- cannot capture everything
- limited to elsevier's
- don't publishers have enough?
researcher id
- clarivate-owned
- can integrate with ORCID
- too big to fail
- inevitable metadata headaches
- cannot capture everything
- don't publishers/metrics companies have enough?
orcid
- not-for-profit
- scholarly open infrastructure
- great for identity reasons
- leveraged by the other big two & most publishers
- a little like being barcoded
- membership benefits often misrepresented