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ORCID
(No institutional affiliation required)
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- Create unique, digital identifiers for individual researchers.
- Publicly highlight publications, grants, and other accomplishments.
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- Disciplines where external funding is often used and traditional journal articles are the preferred scholarly output.
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- Can be fully automated but recommended to monitor additions of new publications.
- Can import content from many other platforms.
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- Can add multiple contributors.
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- Widely used across many disciplines.
- Profiles are easy to create and maintain.
- Organization is nonprofit and global, thus unlikely to be discontinued.
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- Can manually add a variety of works (e.g. patents, software, artistic performances, etc.), but maintaining profiles may require more significant effort.
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Google Scholar
(No institutional affiliation required)
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- Share academic publications easily and quickly with other scholars and the general public.
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- Disciplines where traditional journal articles are the preferred scholarly output.
- Publication coverage is strongest in scientific, technical and medical disciplines.
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- Can be fully automated but recommended to monitor additions of new publications.
- Can export content into other platforms but does not connect directly.
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- Links to coauthors.
- Easy to follow other scholars with email updates.
- Keywords associated with profiles make it easy to find others with similar research interests.
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- Easy to create and low maintenance.
- Can be used to see number of open access publications.
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- Google Scholar citation counts are widely used, but not always correct.
- Google Scholar does not index everything.
- Can only add co-authors who have existing profiles.
- Does not list or link to other author IDs.
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UW Sites
(UW users only)
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- Create UW affiliated websites to host original content and link out to publications.
- Can also include blogging functionality, about pages, and images.
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- Faculty who host labs and would benefit from the collaborative and blogging functions.
- Disciplines with visual components such as Fine Arts or Film.
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- No automation or interoperability. Citations or work must be manually added.
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- Your site can have multiple admins (so long as they have a UW NetID) that can contribute or collaborate on the whole site.
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- Potential to add student collaborators.
- Users control appearance/theme.
- UW web domain.
- Lots of opportunity to customize.
- Can include pedagogical interests and achievements, such as classes taught.
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- WordPress, although user friendly, has an initial learning curve especially if wanting to customize the appearance.
- Updating and maintaining can be time consuming and is not automated.
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UW Directory
(UW users only)
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- Provide a single webpage with UW affiliation including photos, contact information, and profile summary.
- Includes ability to link to a CV and out to publications.
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- Appropriate for all disciplines and audiences.
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- No automation or interoperability. Citations or work must be manually added.
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- No opportunity to collaborate.
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- Easy to read summary of achievements on web page maintained by UWT IT.
- Easy learning curve to update. UW web domain.
- Can include pedagogical interests and achievements, such as classes taught.
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- Can manually add a variety of works (e.g. patents, software, artistic performances, etc.), but maintaining profiles may require more significant effort.
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