Digital Scholar Webinar: Research Data Sharing and Re-Use: Practical Implications for Data Citation Practice that Benefit Researchers
This webinar will highlight the findings of a recent study on the characteristics of data sharing, reuse, and citation, and it will provide practical recommendations for formalized citation practices that benefit the researchers who decide to do so.
Digital Scholar Webinar: Disseminating scientific research via Twitter: Practical insights and research evidence
This webinar will provide an overview of using Twitter to reach peers and non-specialist groups, the relationship between tweets and citations, and provide tips for building an academic Twitter presence.
Digital Scholar Webinar: Using alternative scholarly metrics to showcase the impact of your research: An introduction for researchers
Scholarship is increasingly being created, disseminated, and measured on digital and social platforms. If Twitter exchanges, Facebook “saves,” and YouTube hits are the new metrics for tracking scholarship, how are we measuring societal and educational impact…
Digital Scholar Webinar: Using electronic Laboratory Notebooks in the academic life sciences: a group leader's experience on how they can make research teams more efficient
Digital technologies are shaping the way experiments are performed, results captured, and findings disseminated. We will explore what electronic Laboratory Notebooks (eLNs) afford biomedical researchers, what they require, and how one should go about…
Digital Scholar Webinar: Accelerating systematic review studies using the online tool Covidence
Literature reviews, in particular systematic reviews, are invaluable to represent the latest and most complete information available on a particular topic or intervention, but they can be time consuming. This webinar explores a digital application called…
Digital Scholar Webinar: Using the research platform TurkPrime to crowdsource data for the health sciences
Crowdsourcing platforms are revolutionizing research by providing a way to collect clinical and behavioral data with unprecedented speed and efficiency. This seminar explores another digital platform called TurkPrime that is designed to support research…
Digital Scholar Webinar: Recruiting study participants online using Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Crowdsourcing has had a dramatic impact on the speed and scale at which scientific research can be conducted. This webinar summarizes what is known about MTurk sample composition and data quality with an emphasis on findings relevant to clinical psychological…