The Health Sciences Library System is excited to announce the Open Scholarship and Research Impact Challenge! This asynchronous course on Canvas, developed in partnership with the University Library System, will guide you through a wide range of topics that focus on how to make your research openly available. Making your articles and related research outputs open can help increase the transparency and reproducibility of your work, as well as help maximize your research impact.
The overarching benefit of making your work open is that your research is likely to get more exposure than from behind a paywall. If you’re unsure about how to get started, this course is a great place to learn the basics about openly sharing your articles, books, preprints, protocols, data, and code. You can expect to learn about the different open access publishing models, copyright and licensing essentials, open access repositories for all types of research outputs, and other best practices for sharing your scholarship.
This course also has modules that focus on how to manage your scholarly works and communicate your research impact to different audiences. Learn how to optimize your ORCiD profile, which can be linked to many scholarly systems to save you time filling out forms, can increase your research visibility, and can be automatically updated when you publish or share new works. Learn how to increase the visibility of your scholarship with an online author profile, how to use the right research metrics to showcase your citation impact, and how to write an impact statement that not only highlights those metrics but also the values that are important to you as a scholar.
Of the six modules that make up this course, you can complete them in any order, or just take the ones that interest you most. For each module that you complete, you will get a badge to show off your newly gained knowledge and skillset!
When you’re ready to get started, visit the course landing page to learn more about the modules and get the link to enroll. We hope that you’ll find the Open Scholarship and Research Impact Challenge useful for making informed publishing decisions to help extend the reach of your work. If you have any questions, contact the members of the Impact Challenge team.
~Stephen Gabrielson