Early adopters of open research output: a study of the motivations and opinions of Figshare.com users (Poster)

This 3.8 MB poster (which actually exceeds the file size that may be uploaded onto this WordPress open research notebook) was presented at The University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information Research Symposium. It is a first public look at some research effort that has been discussed in other Continue reading Early adopters of open research output: a study of the motivations and opinions of Figshare.com users (Poster)

Defining “Early Adopters” of Data Sharing Platforms

I think it’d be wise to add at least a mention of what an early adopter is related to the figshare article. Some poking around on Google Scholar shows there is both an organizational early adopter and an individual early adopter. I did a Google Scholar search for: individual AND Continue reading Defining “Early Adopters” of Data Sharing Platforms

Designing a Systematic Review Assessing Prevalence of Open Science Data Sharing

In a previous post I realized the need to do a systematic review of literature to determine prevalence of the use of figshare, both in terms of citation and in terms of actual studies of an open science platform such as figshare. To start with, I need to determine what Continue reading Designing a Systematic Review Assessing Prevalence of Open Science Data Sharing

Designing a Meta-Analysis for Data Sharing via Open Science Networks

I’m behind in consulting the literature for references to figshare. From participating in the 2013 Walter E. Dean Environmental Information Management Institute, I am aware of a trend in research for using scholarly databases to conduct a “meta analysis.” The book about meta analysis we referenced for the course in Continue reading Designing a Meta-Analysis for Data Sharing via Open Science Networks

#OpenScience Sentiment Analysis via Twitter Data

In earlier post I mentioned that I would like to look at positive sentiments such as “I like @figshare” or “I prefer @figshare” or “I use @figshare” across twitter. A quick Web search on Google for “archive of past tweets” (without quotes) brought my attention to this September 4, 2013 article on Mashable: Continue reading #OpenScience Sentiment Analysis via Twitter Data

Who Follows Whom? Exploring Open Science Social Networks

A few items to comment on. First, my personal e-mail was sent a notification from twitter that suggested certain other organizations to follow, apparently based on my interest in figshare – the title of the e-mail was “Suggestions based on figshare” Twitter suggested “Similar to figshare” includes: PLOS (@PLOS) Open Continue reading Who Follows Whom? Exploring Open Science Social Networks

Exploring #OpenScience Communities via Twitter

Continuing some initial explorations on how to explore data sharing practices among users of an online repository such as figshare. As an active (or more accurately, formerly active) twitter user (@mountainsol), I recall finding that some of my information was stored by a service called “favstar.” Twitter has the ability Continue reading Exploring #OpenScience Communities via Twitter

#OpenScience Social Networks: Facebook and Google+

Continuing to look at figshare today. Facebook has some limited data available concerning users. It is not possible to see “who likes figshare” on Facebook because that information is private, unlike twitter, which allows any user to view the “followers” and “friends” of a twitter user. The limited data that Continue reading #OpenScience Social Networks: Facebook and Google+

Survey of Data Management Early Adopters

In support of the sociocultural working group, I am now assisting with an inquiry into the phenomenon of sharing data online via publishing and archival services.  In particular, I’m looking at the user community surrounding FigShare. Over the summer I took a course in Scholarly Publishing.  The class examined a Continue reading Survey of Data Management Early Adopters