CommunityData:Research dissemination

Public dissemination of research

   Congratulations on having your research accepted for publication!! ...

   While this makes your research available to the academic community, there are a bunch of things that you can do to increase the impact of your work, and make it more visible to a broader audience.

   While none of the research produced by the CDSC has included all of these outputs, we've compiled a bunch of things that we have done and that may or may not be appropriate for your work.

   1. Open access publication:

   OA paper/replication materials [link to page about our dataverse repo]

   Ideally, you will be able to publish your paper under an open access license. 

   Preprint servers

   Nearly all journals and proceedings allow for some version of a document to be uploaded to preprint servers like ArXiv. You should check the agreement for the specific publication venue; sometimes this has to be a pre-reviewed version, but often it is the version before the final typsetting (i.e., the version that was accepted).

   There are a few different preprint servers, but we have typically used ArXiv or SocArXiv.

   2. Spread the word to key colleagues

   Email other researchers who you think should read the work with a PDF and/or link to the (OA version) of the work. Ideas for people you might contact in this way include: former mentors/collaborators, people who's work you cite a lot in the publication; people who you would like to talk with more and who you think would appreciate the contribution of the new paper you've just written.

   3. Spread the word online

   Make it concrete, practical, and problem/solution focused! (Rather than focused on theory, prior research, or scientific contributions alone)

   blog post: Our research blog has many examples. The idea here is to make the post pretty short (~800 words), clear, and interesting enough that it will encourage readers to go look at the paper more closely. It's good to includeat least one image too!

   social media:  the CDSC has accounts on Mastodon; Fediverse (social.coop); 

   explainer video (example: hidden costs video)

   post to reddit: r/CompSocial, r/science

   4. Spread the word to potential non-scholarly "end users" of the work (practitioners, community members/leaders, policymakers)

   Make it concrete, practical, and problem/solution focused! (Rather than focused on theory, prior research, or scientific contributions alone)

   presentation to community/constituent conference/gathering

   community dialogue

   research briefing 

   5. Press/media outreach

   outreach to hypothetical readers/press, 

   university-specific press/PR folks