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The Digital Scholar: Develop Your Online Presence and Communicate Your Work to the World

A guide to your options for creating and maintaining a presence online among fellow scholars, with the purposes of raising your profile, meeting and working with collaborators, and promoting your research.

Personal Policies

Things you should think about when considering what to do online.
 

Privacy and Your Personal Data

What are your limits? What are you okay with being out there? The companies that run these organizations are tracking you, and you should decide how much you're willing to give them.

 

Personal vs. Work

Who are you willing to have see your profile? Different social networks serve different purposes, so decide beforehand what you want to make available to your coworkers, collaborators and students and what you want to keep separate.

 

Copyright

Know what you have the right to do with your own work if you’re thinking of posting the full-text of anything to one of the networks. Check back in with your copyright agreements if it’s been a while since you signed them, or use the Sherpa Romeo tool (linked below) to find your publisher's copyright policy.