Curating a Professional Scholarly Online Identity

This page was creeated for the October 16, 2019, workshop with Professors Jeremy Douglass, Melody Jue, and Alan Liu on “Maintaining an Online Profile” in the UCSB English Department’s Professionalization Seminar Series. (The seminar series was organized by Prof. Heather Blurton. (page last rev. 13 Nov. 2020)

Overall context: ability of the Web to advance professional visibility and status of early career scholars (currently trending toward the expectation of online presence and materials)
Platforms for Professional “You“:
- Your institutional bio page (currently on the English dept. site)
  - Affiliation with other institutional programs and centers (example)
- Personal web site platforms (hosted by providers companies)
  - Content management system platforms (e.g., WordPress.com, Reclaim Hosting [example])
  - Drag-and-drop site platforms (e.g., Squarespace, Weebly, Wix)
  - Static-site generator platforms (e.g., Publii)
- What to put on your site
  - bio or “about”, c.v., courses, research samples, ancillary research materials, portfolios
  - research blog (advice on research blogging)
  - SEO (search engine optimization)
- Participation in professionally-oriented social media communities (especially on Twitter) and listservs
- Proprietary professional/scholarly platforms?
  - Commons: MLA Commons, Humanities Commons
  - Zotero groups
  - Proprietary platforms: Linked In, Academia.edu, ResearchGate
Research Identity management:
- Deciding on your publishing name
- Creating an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number for yourself (example)
- Using EZID to create DOI’s for your articles, blog posts, course syllabi, etc.
- Policing your Google Scholar citations and other aggregator citations (example)
Open scholarship strategy (and institutional repository strategy):
- SHERPA/R0MEO for determining journal open access policy: http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php
- Journal pre-print policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals_by_preprint_policy
- Depositing research in California Digital Library: eScholarship: https://submit.escholarship.org/subi/manageItems
- Using MLA Commons and Humanities Commons
Archiving yourself in Internet Archive
- Browser extensions for Internet Archive (and Wayback Machine) (example)