It is increasingly common for professionals and academics to create public professional identities online and build networks of connections and colleagues. Use these to post and share your professional and educational achievements.
These networks are typically free for at least a basic profile, provide opportunities to share career news and messages, provide a place to make public your work and educational history, and can serve as a resource for those looking to hire new staff or investigate potential business contacts.
To use these:
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About.me is a platform for freelancers and entrepreneurs that is commonly used to create a simple biographical page with contact information that is findable by Google and other search engines. More elaborate options are available for a fee, but the base site is free.
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LinkedIn is one of the most popular career networking sites for professionals of all professions, and is designed to easily display work and educational history, and to promote networking and career development. It is commonly consulted by hiring managers when considering new candidates and often serves as an effective self-submitted employee directory for a variety of companies.
Note: LinkedIn has special resources for students. Note: You can connect your professional LinkedIn account with your Canvas profile by clicking a button within Canvas. |
Mendeley, owned by the publisher Elsevier, is a social research network and citation management utility designed to highlight researcher's affiliations and publications, provide new connections and networking between researchers with similar interests, and offer personalized suggestions of new articles to read or people to follow. Its citation management utility will also store captured or uploaded citations in your personal account and generate formatted bibliographies in a wide variety of publication styles.
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See the Citation Management Guide for more information about citation management using Mendeley
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ResearchGate is one of the most popular networking for-profit sites for academics, and is designed to easily display publications or presentations.
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Note : While ResearchGate is very widely used, many scholars are beginning to view it as engaging in predatory behavior in its efforts to earn a profit. At present, it is still recommended due to its broad general adoption in the biomedical research community, but this may change.
SciENcv, or the Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae, is a researcher profile system for all individuals who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies. SciENcv is available in My NCBI, your personal ID on the US National Center for Biotechnology Information site. This resource is designed to ensure consistency across online identities in the federal research system, and to eliminate the need to re-enter biosketch information with every contact.
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