Building Your Academic Profile Online: Tools and Strategies for Early-Career Scholars

Vocabulary flashcards covering online academic profiles, scholarly impact metrics, and University of California open access policies based on the lecture notes.

Online Academic Profile

A webpage, digital portfolio, or social media profile that highlights scholarly, professional, or creative work, CV history, and engagement with the research community.

ORCID

A free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities across all disciplines.

Scopus Author Profile and Web of Science ResearcherID

Abstract and citation databases that automatically index articles, provide metrics for measuring research impact, and integrate with ORCID.

FigShare

A repository platform that provides author profiles, metric tracking, and integration with ORCID.

Academia.edu and ResearchGate

For-profit commercial platforms that monetization user data and lack infrastructure for long-term preservation.

Altmetrics (Alternative Metrics)

Metrics measuring scholarly impact through online views, news and blog citations, social media engagement, Mendeley saves, policy documents, and Wikipedia citations.

Open Access (OA)

Free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone.

ROARMAP

An international registry charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions, and research funders.

Gold Open Access

Open access publishing where the author or institution pays an Article Processing Charge (APC) to the publisher, providing free and immediate access on the publisher platform while the author retains copyright.

Green Open Access

Open access publishing with no APC to the publisher, where the final manuscript is deposited in a repository, the publisher dictates an embargo period, and the publisher owns copyright.

Diamond Open Access

Open access publishing with no APC to the publisher, free and immediate access on the publisher platform, and where the author retains copyright.

UC Academic Senate Open Access Policy

Policy adopted on July 24, 2013, ensuring that future research articles authored by UC faculty across all 10 campuses are made publicly available at no charge via eScholarship.

UC Presidential Open Access Policy

Policy issued on October 23, 2015, expanding open access rights and responsibilities to all other UC employees, including non-senate researchers, lecturers, postdocs, administrative staff, librarians, and graduate students.

eScholarship

The University of California system's open access publishing platform and institutional repository.

Metrics Ecosystem Diagram

A diagram illustrating the levels of scholarly impact metrics, including author-level, journal-level, article-level, altmetrics, and data/code/protocols.

Types of Open Access Publishing Diagram

A comparison chart breaking down Gold Open Access, Green Open Access, and Diamond Open Access by APC costs, access, embargo periods, and copyright retention.

UC Open Access Policy Coverage Summary

A chart defining what materials and authors are covered under UC Open Access Policies versus those not covered, such as books, non-employee students, lecture notes, and pre-policy articles.