Helping scholars keep their online profiles up to date with their latest publications
How can we help academics keep their online profiles up to date?
Maintaining one’s profile is an important activity, but one which can be very tedious. We’re hoping to make things simpler, by adding some automatic help in the area of a scholarly profile that gets out of date the quickest: the publications list. CARET is working with the University Library and Symplectic Ltd to create a scholarly networking platform, inside our Sakai-based virtual research environment CamTools, to support researchers sharing their profiles, connecting with others and driving new collaborations. We will enable academics to upload a new paper, and automatically have it placed in the institutional repository and added to their online profile, and also use information about the paper to recommend new connections within the network.
This project fits nicely alongside, and following on from, our Academic Networking study. It’s also linked to our work for the American Academy of Religion, which looks at the scholarly network from the point of view of the discipline and learned society (whereas ConnectedWorks studies the institutional angle).
