SpotOn London 2012: Collaborating and building your online presence
Channel: SpotOnLondonTools
Date: 2012-11-12

At Imperial College London Library, we have developed a programme (Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools: collaborating and building your online presence) to educate postgraduate research students about not only the web 2.0 tools and technologies available to them to help with their research, but also the impact their use has on building their online presence and any legal and ethical implications. The programme is based online but includes a face to face workshop and the Library has worked with researchers and PhD students to integrate as many 'real-life' Imperial based examples as possible. Whilst many attendees at SpotOn London are already aware of what's available, what about those who are not, or are interested but just not sure where to get started? And leading on from this -- what about undergraduate science students? What should we be doing to introduce them to the these tools and technologies (as an additional form of scholarly communication in addition to more traditional means such as journal articles), in order to educate them from an early stage in their career? How can librarians and scientists work together to make this happen?

 

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