Scholarly Communications at Georgia Southern University

Faculty, as you wrap up the academic year, there’s an easy task that will pay off when you return next fall: updating or creating your SelectedWorks Profile. Chances are you’ve published research, presented at virtual conferences, and accomplished a variety of scholarly activities this year. Perhaps newer faculty or those from Armstrong and Liberty Campuses haven’t created a profile yet. Or maybe it’s been a while since you’ve updated your existing profile. The University Libraries want to promote your work in our institutional repository, Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. 

Complete this form to get the process started. 

Through our turn-key service, the Digital Commons Team will build or update your SelectedWorks Profile based on your current CV. Benefits include:

• A professional, Georgia Southern-branded profile showcasing your scholarship.
• Preserve your work in Digital Commons, the University’s secure, stable Open Access archive. 
• Increase discoverability of your work through search engine optimization.
• The new version of PlumX Metrics is now private and accessible only to you and others you invite to see your Author Dashboard.
• Monthly Digital Commons Readership Reports delivered to your inbox.
• Deposit and share data as required by many funders and publishers.
• Host materials in a variety of formats, including documents, image galleries, and downloadable and streaming video files. 

Complete this form to send in your CV, or contact us at digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.

Digital Commons@Georgia Southern is getting a fresh look this summer! New visual and functional features will enhance the experience for visitors. The redesign features improved navigation and an updated header, colors, and fonts. The new site will go live before Fall semester starts. We can’t wait to share it with our community!

The University Libraries Have You Covered! In addition to meeting funder and publisher requirements, sharing your data increases the visibility and impact of your research. Within reasonable size limits, the Libraries can host datasets in any discrete file format; plus we'll help you with organizing, describing, and licensing your data!

To get started, see the library's Guide to Curating & Sharing Data on the Data Management Services guide, then contact the Digital Commons Team for help with hosting your data.

Browse Our Growing Collection of Faculty Datasets

               Did you miss our Spring Webinar series?

We have created a series of short video tutorials and walk-throughs of many of the topics presented in our webinars. Visit our Tutorials page at: https://georgiasouthern.libguides.com/scholcomm/tutorials to learn more.

Videos are available for:

• Data Management Services:
  • Data Management Plan Basics
  • Example Data Management Plans
  • Funder & Publisher Requirements
     
• Online Profiles:
  • ORCID IDs
  • Google Scholar Profiles
  • LinkedIn Profiles
  • Selected Works Profiles
  • Author Dashboards for Faculty
  • Author Dashboards for Departments

Slide decks also are available from our webinars on:

• Your Research Identity
• IR Services: Armstrong Campus
• Metrics & Research Impact
  • Evaluating Journal Quality (and avoiding predatory journals)
  • Measuring Your Research Impact
  • PlumX: Take the Driver's Seat with Integrated Metrics Dashboards
     

Visit our Tutorial page at: https://georgiasouthern.libguides.com/scholcomm/tutorials to explore these topics.

The 2021 ICPSR Summer Program--ALL Virtual!-- Begins May 3rd! 

The ICPSR Summer Program (all Virtual!) features online courses in statistics, quantitative methods, machine learning, and data analysis. From the introductory to the advanced, our courses offer training to 1,000 participants every year, whether they are undergraduates about to enter grad school, or tenured faculty learning (or re-learning) a particular technique.

• Machine Learning
• Regression Analysis
• Multilevel Models
• Structural Equation Models
• Over 70 workshops and lectures to choose from!

Registration for the Four-Week sessions and the Short Workshops is still open! See the complete schedule and program descriptions: https://bit.ly/3nyzqOZ 

• First Session: June 21-July 16, 2021 (Registration for the 1st Session closes on Sunday, June 13, 2021)
• Second Session: July 19-August 13, 2021 (Registration for the 2nd Session closes on Sunday, July 11, 2021)

• Short Workshops are available too, (Multiple dates from May through August 2021)
  • Visit ICPSR's Short Workshop portal at: https://bit.ly/3gNceLz for more information 

Stay up-to-date with ICPSR and subscribe to the Summer Program email list at: https://bit.ly/3gO6hOf 

More about ICPSR: 

• Read more ICPSR news: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/news
• Learn about ICPSR's New Data Releases through mid-January 2021.
• What is ICPSR?  See this short video (1:56).
• Do you teach with data? See ICPSR’s Classroom Exercises and Resources for Teachers.