impactstory

Impact Story

Impact Story
We’d like to issue a challenge to every researcher: find out your open access score, do one thing to raise it, and tell someone you did. It takes ten minutes, and it’s a concrete thing you can do to be proud of yourself as a scholar.

Here’s how to do it:

 * 1) [|Make an Impactstory profile] . You’ll need a Twitter account and nothing more...it’s free, nonprofit, and takes less than five minutes. Plus along the way you’ll learn cool stuff about how often your research has been tweeted, blogged, and discussed online.
 * 2) Deposit just one of your papers into an Open Access repository. Again: it’s easy. [|Here’s instructions] .
 * 3) Once you’re done, update your Impactstory, and see your improved score.
 * 4) Tweet it. Let your community know you’ve made the world a richer, more beautiful place because you’ve made you’ve increased the knowledge available to humanity. Just like that. Let’s spread that idea.

This [|Open Access Week] , we’re rolling out this measurement on Impactstory. It’s a simple number: what percentage of your work is free to read online? We’d argue that it’s perhaps the most important number associated with your professional life (unless maybe it’s the percentage of your work published with a [|robust license] that allows reuse beyond reading...we’re calculating that too). We’re calling it your Open Access Score.

Measurement is controversial. It has pros and cons. But when you’re measuring the right things, it can be incredibly powerful. This OA Week, join us in measuring the right things. Find your #OAscore, make it better, tweet it out. If we’re going to [|measure steps], let’s make them steps that matter.

Let's get your profile set up. Impactstory is built on [|ORCID], a global nonprofit registry of researchers and their publications. Do you have an ORCID ID?

Let's add your publications
Looks like there are no publications associated with your ORCID. We'll need to fix that. But no worries—it'll take less than five minutes. Once you're done, we'll automatically import your publications into Impactstory and you'll be ready to roll. Here's how it works: we'll send you to the Scopus ORCID importer wizard in a new tab. You'll follow the steps in their wizard. When you're done, close that tab and come back here and check out your newly-complete Impactstory profile!

The ORCID registry provides notifications about things of interest, like changes to your ORCID record and new and events. How often would you like these notifications delivered to you via email?ImmediatelyDaily summaryWeekly summaryQuarterly summaryNever (notifications will still be available in your ORCID account ) Track buzz on Twitter, blogs, news outlets and more: we're like Google Scholar for your research's online reach. Making a profile takes just seconds:

Boost your #OAscore
You can boost the percentage of your work that's free to read by uploading copies of paywalled papers to an open repository.
 * 1) First, look through your publications list here on Impactstory. Find a publication that doesn't have "[full text]" next to it.
 * 2) Go to an open repository like [|figshare] or [|Zenodo] and upload the paper you've chosen. [|Here's more detailed instructions.]
 * 3) Once you've uploaded your (formerly!) paywalled paper, note the new open URL you've created.
 * 4) Come back to Impactstory and view your publications list. Click on the title of the paper you've uploaded. Paste your new open URL into the "Add a link to free fulltext" field at the top of the page.
 * 5) Done! When you view your profile you'll see your new higher score (you may need to wait a few seconds for it to recalculate). Tweet it for the world to see!

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