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Demonstrate Your Research Impact
The number of citations, downloads, views, or media mentions a piece of research receives is a good indicator of the impact that research is having on the world. Understanding how to articulate your impact is an important skill when applying for promotion, tenure, or grant funding.
A librarian can provide guidance and support for the assessment of individual or group research impact, such as:
- Selecting appropriate indicators/benchmarks for your needs
- Using library resources to generate key indicators
- Enhancing your research impact through strategic scholarly communication
- Maintaining researcher profiles to efficiently track your impact
- Overton This link opens in a new windowOverton is the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers. It collects data from 188 countries and over a thousand sources worldwide and is continually updating. The company parses each document, finding references, people and key concepts, and then links them to the relevant news stories, academic research, think tank output and other policy, allowing authors to search these documents and see where their ideas, papers, reports and staff are being cited or mentioned. Overton can help authors discover where their work may be influencing or changing practice in the real world.
Promote Your Research
McMaster Experts is McMaster University’s researcher and expertise discovery gateway that aims to facilitate collaboration among academic researchers and spark increased engagement with other communities in academia, industry, and the media, locally, nationally, and internationally.
- ResearchGateA free consumer research network with customized profiles and personalized information feeds
Preserve & Share Your Research Data
The library encourages authors to upload their published or pre-published manuscripts to an open access repository, such as MacSphere.
The library can help authors research a journal's open access policy in SHERPA/RoMEO
Open Access Repositories
Data Repositories
Following the research publication is the preservation & sharing phase which addresses the long-term storage, maintenance, and accessibility of your data. Check out Publishing Data from Research Data Management Services for more information.
- Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data)Browse repository to identify suitable data sets
- Scholars Portal DataverseWith Scholars Portal (SP) Dataverse researchers are able to self-archive their data and still remain in control of it’s access and distribution.
