Scholarly Impact Challenge: Day 5: Your Personal Web Page
Day 5: Your Personal Web Page
Welcome to the fifth (and final) day of the Fondren Library Scholarly Impact Challenge! Earlier this week, you registered your ORCID, claimed your Google Scholar Profile, explored a digital repository, and reflected on your use of social media. Today, we’ll pull all of these pieces together on your personal web page. Let’s get started!
Activity
Getting started
- Identify the web page you will use for today’s challenge. You can work with any public web page that contains information about you and your work, and that you are able to edit directly. For example:
- A Rice departmental or staff profile page that you have permission to edit yourself.
- The ORCID profile you created on Day 1, or any public profile on a platform like Humanities Commons, Open Science Framework, or other social networking platform.
- Your own independent website or blog, if you have one.
- Your goal is to ensure that all the work you’ve done this week to establish and manage your presence on the web is fully integrated into your web page. Check your website for each of the following:
- Your ORCID ID and link to your ORCID profile
- Link to your Google Scholar profile
- Link(s) to any repositories where you have deposited your work (see Bonus Challenge, below)
- Links to any social media profiles or feeds that you want your colleagues to know about, follow, or connect with
- Make sure that the URL for your personal web page is included in all of the spaces listed above. You may also want to include it on your email signature.
- While you’re here, check that any other information on your personal web page (email address, campus address and phone number, research and teaching interests, etc.) is present and up-to-date.
Learn more
If you decide it makes sense to have a website of your own, there are a number of resources designed to help you develop the skills to create and maintain your site, including:
- Fondren Library’s Digital Media Commons frequently offers short courses on website development using CampusPress
- They also maintain a library of user guides, including several for CampusPress
- Creating and Hosting a Personal Site on GitHub, from Jon McGlone, a University of Michigan Library Web Developer and Front End designer
Bonus Challenge
If you currently have documents posted on your personal webpage, consider depositing those files in a repository instead. Then, link to those items in the repository, rather than hosting them directly on your web page.
Wrapping up
Congratulations! You've completed the Fondren Library Scholarly Impact Challenge!
Feel free to revisit any of the topics/activities covered in the past five days. The material will always be available in this Fondren Library guide.