Take Control of Your Scholarly Identity with Deep Blue

Abstract

If the CV is the table of contents to a scholarly career, repositories help make the fuller story available by providing direct access to the rich content deposited in them. This extends beyond articles to teaching materials, conference materials (papers, slides, posters), data, code, images, and other resources. This session will engage attendees in identifying the breadth of their research outputs, and exploring how repositories can help add depth to online scholarly identities by making these outputs more visible and available. It will focus on the Deep Blue repositories (Deep Blue Documents and Deep Blue Data) stewarded by the University of Michigan Library as venues for exposing this work, and will be most useful for those in faculty and staff roles, but applicable for anyone building out their scholarly identity online. Breadth of representation becomes ever more important as more people engage in public scholarship or other types of work not traditionally captured in conversations around scholarship and promotion. Attendees will leave the session with a list of their own scholarly accomplishments to explore making available online, and a framework to use in determining the best platform(s) for their work. The session will also include a chance for participants to interact with Deep Blue and Deep Blue Data, and learn about repositories in general as well as the services available to them as members of the University of Michigan. The session will complement Enriching Scholarship sessions “Managing your scholarly presence online” and “Visualize public engagement with scholarly research using Altmetric Explorer”.