Increase Your Scholarly Visibility

While this professional networking platform is not exclusively research or academic-focused, it is commonly used in some fields. Create a profile to network with colleagues, highlight experience and skills, and search for academic and non-academic jobs.

If you use Mendeley as a reference management tool, explore the social networking components that allow you to create a research profile, connect with researchers who have shared interests, collaborate with colleagues in public or private groups.

ResearchGate and Academia.edu are social networking platforms for researchers. Both allow you to create a profile that summarizes your research, list and upload your publications, track engagement with your uploaded publications, and connect to researchers with common interests.

CAUTION: Before you upload publications to either platform, check your publishing agreements or publisher policies to make sure you are allowed to share on these platforms.

MLA Commons is the scholarly network for the Modern Language Association. Members can join language and literature discussion groups, build a WordPress Web site for a class or conference, showcase their work, and upload their materials to the CORE open access repository.

Knowledge Commons is an open access platform where scholars across the humanities can create professional profiles, participate in discussion groups, create WordPress websites, and deposit and share their work. It is also the designated public access repository of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).