Please tell us about your scholarly communication practices This questionnaire is intended to serve as a way to learn more about your professional and research oriented scholarly communication practices. We hope to use this information to improve library support services for Pitt faculty. This questionnaire is intended to serve as a way to learn more about faculty members professional and research oriented scholarly communication practices. To start the survey, please tell us about yourself: Name: School/Department: Research area(s): Research center: Research lab or group: Google Scholar ID: ORCID ID: Page 1
Learning about new scholarship Please tell us how you stay up to date with new scholarship in your discipline. To which scholarly societies and professional organizations do you belong? What are the scholarly or professional conferences you most often attend? What are the scholarly journals that you personally read most often? Do you use any current awareness services to keep up with research in your field? Current Contents Email alerts from specific journals Email alerts from specific databases IngentaConnect JournalTOCs RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds of scholarly or journal sites Which scholarly blogs or wikis related to your research interests do you regularly read? Do you maintain or contribute to any blogs, websites, wikis, or online collaborative scholarly sites? Which ones? Web address: Page 2
Organizing your research Which tools do you use to organize your research? Citation Management Software and Social Bibliographic/Citation Tools Connotea EndNote Mendeley RefWorks Zotero Pitt Faculty Information System Digital Vita School of Business database D Scholarship@Pitt As part of your research, do you use any social bookmarking services? AddThis CiteULike Delicious Diigo Google Bookmarks Pearltrees Pinboard Page 3
Social media and scholarship Please tell us about your social media practices as they relate to your scholarship. Do you use any of the following social media sites/services as a way to share your research or learn about other s research? Facebook Google+ Newsvine Reddit Tumblr Twitter Do you actively participate in any social research, scholarly, or career networks? Academia.edu LinkedIn Pivot Community of Science ResearchGate SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) Page 4
Your scholarly production What types of research do you produce? Abstracts Articles Audio Books Book chapters Code Data Images Learning objects Papers Posters Reports Slides/slide presentations Software Video Images: As part of your research, do you use any social photograph or image sharing services? Facebook Flickr Instagram Kodak Gallery Pinterest Snapfish Wikimedia Commons Page
Slides: As part of your research, do you use any social slide sharing services? SlideBoom SlideRocket SlideServe SlideShare Speaker Deck Videos: As part of your research, do you use any video sharing services? Facebook itunesu ScienceStage Vimeo YouTube Coding: As part of your research, do you use or contribute to any social coding services? GitHub Data: As part of your research, do you use or contribute to any open or social data sites? Page
Storing and preserving your scholarship Have you archived or preserved any of your research using the following tools? Website Personal scholarly website Departmental website What is the address for your personal scholarly website and/or a webpage you maintain on a departmental website? Discipline based repository arxiv CiteSeerX (computer & information science) CogPrints (cognitive sciences preprints) hprints (arts & humanities preprints) PhilSci Archive (philosophy of science) RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) ScientificCommons SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) Institutional Repository D Scholarship@Pitt (institutional repository) Do you archive articles or scholarship as part of any grant or federal grant funded mandate? If so, which ones? PubMed Central Page 7