A key part of developing your scholarly identity and boosting your reputation is sharing your work. Sharing publications is also an important aspect of Open Access principles (read more about Open Access). In addition to social media platforms, there are several places where you can share your work, depending on its format:
- Articles, Books & Book Chapters: publish with open access journals or university presses, or archive your work on subject repositories (ArXiv, SSRN, PeerJ Preprints, BioRxiv), and general repositories (Figshare & Zenodo)
- Data: general repositories (Figshare & Zenodo) and subject repositories (ICPSR, PDB, TreeBase, KNB, and more) offer both discoverability and preservation services for research data
- Software: GitHub is a popular software development platform that interfaces with Figshare and Zenodo to archive issue DOIs for software; Bitbucket and Sourceforge are also used to share software
- Slides: Slideshare, Speakerdeck, and Figshare
- Posters: Figshare and Zenodo
- Videos: Vimeo, Youtube, and Figshare
- Figures: Figshare, Flickr, and Instagram Peer Reviews: Publons, PubPeer, and ScienceOpen
When available, scholars are encouraged to include all their works in their institutional repositories. However, not all institutions (including Purdue Fort Wayne, currently) have a repository available to faculty.
*Information in this section is adapted from “Publication Metrics: Altmetrics: Boost Your Altmetrics” by Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives
