One good way to share your academic work is to create an academic/professional website.

There are numerous platforms that can be used to build a website for free, such as Wix, WordPress, and others.  There are numerous sites online that rate the qualities of website builders.  Go here to see current examples of other website building platforms and their reviews.  All of these platforms have simple interfaces and easy-to-use, flexible content design.  There may be some variety in storage allowances and other functionality. 

A well-designed website can help you make your work available to other researchers, such as links to your publications and a record of your teaching. You can also highlight information about yourself.

Like creating a website, creating a blog can be a good way to share your thoughts and start discussion, and you can then share your blog posts on social media. 

A good blogging platform to get started with is WordPress.  To learn more about academic blogging, have a look at this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

In contrast to tools like Academia.edu or ResearchGate, which may charge some fees, a researcher profile such as ORCID is free. 

Knowledge mobilization grant requirements, or open access requirements can often be fulfilled by depositing work in an institutional repository such as MUN’s Research Repository, which guarantees preservation, and showcases Memorial's creative and intellectual output. 

To find out more about the Research Repository, including what kind of work can be submitted, how to submit work, or whether your publishing agreement allows you to submit a copy, go to the related page on this guide.

To find out more about how to a make a complete record of your work accessible in one place by setting up researcher profiles, see the Researcher Profiles page of this guide.

Social media platforms such as Twitter are yet another way to share your research and get involved in online academic communities.

Follow these steps to get started on Twitter (adapted from Moore, 2019):

1. Create a Twitter account.
2. Use Twitter Lists to organize information.
3. Share your research, ideas, questions and updates.
4. When you tweet about a publication, use a persistent identifier such as a DOI. This helps with ease of access, and allows you to track altmetrics.
5. Use hashtags that are common in your scholarly community.
   A few examples: #scicomm (science communication), #epitwitter (epidemiology), #MedTwitter (medicine), #socTwitter (sociology), #AcWri (academic writing), #ECRChat (early career researchers)
6. Follow other researchers and participate in discussions.
7. Track shares of your research articles by searching for the title or DOI .

For more on using social media, here are 10 ways to use social media to get your research noticed, from Times Higher Education.

Further Reading:

Neal, D.R. (2012). Social media for academics: A practical guide. Chandos Publishing. Access online via MUN Libraries.