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Understanding & Establishing Digital Scholarly Identity Workshop Series

This how-to guide is meant to support anyone interested in developing and maintaining their digital scholarly identities and accompanies the "Understanding & Establishing Digital Scholarly Identity" Workshop Series.

Your Instructors

Headshot of Franny Gaede

Franny Gaede

Director, Digital Scholarship Services

mfgaede@uoregon.edu

541-346-1854

Headshot of Kate Thornhill

Kate Thornhill

Digital Scholarship Librarian

kmthorn@uoregon.edu

541-346-3714

Headshot of Genifer Snipes

Genifer Snipes

Interim Director, Research & Instructional Services and Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian

gsnipes@uoregon.edu

541-346-4139

Topics & Questions

  • What do we mean when we talk about metrics?
  • What is impact factor?
  • Does impact factor still count?
  • What is the difference between impact factor and h-index?
  • What are altmetrics?
  • How important is it to publish in [insert journal title here]?
  • Who are the players in scholarly publishing?
  • Wherefore art thou SciHub?
  • Fastest/best way to publish my thesis?
  • Is open access legit?
  • Help me Obi-Wan Fran-obi, you're my only hope. You're the only one who can tell me about Scholar's Bank, the repository for the creative and scholarly output of the University of Oregon, intended to provide long-term access and digital preservation for those digital and born-digital materials. 
    • this is a joke and a lie; there are many extremely qualified people that can tell you all about Scholar's Bank, including Kate. Your best resource is our amazing Institutional Repository Manager, Cathy Flynn-Purvis
  • What is the difference between open and public scholarship?
  • How do we pay for this stuff?
  • When is open access not a good thing?
  • What do we mean by scholarly communication?
  • What does it mean to "publish" in 2022? 2072? 
  • How do we preserve The Healers project? Can we?
  • What does open peer review grant us? What do we lose?