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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 |
Revision as of 18:57, 5 June 2024
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