Establishing Your Digital Identity: Scholarly Author Identifiers

Description

This workshop, hosted by the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, is the first in a three-part series for underrepresented graduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) at Johns Hopkins to help them grow their digital presence among their peers, the public, and future employers.

Scholarly identifiers help researchers establish their presence among peers and is part of researchers' digital identity. Identifier platforms such as Scopus, Google Scholar, and ORCID can track a researcher's scholarly output and impact, establish them among other researchers with similar names, and more. They are also used by other organizations such as funders for grant applications and scholarly publishers.

However, college students are unfamiliar with them and unsure how or where to get started using the platforms. If you are new to author identifiers or want learn more about them, join this workshop with scholarly communications expert Robin Sinn (she/her/hers), a librarian in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library in the Office of Scholarly Communications. Sinn's areas of expertise are publishing trends, open access, and copyright.

The workshop series is made possible by The Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The goals of the Gilliam program are to ensure that students from groups historically excluded and unrepresented in science are prepared for leadership roles in science.