Ensuring faculty scholarship is accessible and disseminated widely online is a key goal of the law library. The following platforms are helpful tools for legal scholars to generate impact online.
Bepress Expert Gallery Author Profiles
Faculty can showcase publications, presentations, and more on this author profile system that provides authors with a personalized dashboard containing download and other engagement data. Faculty can log in to edit their profile or view their dashboard using their Bepress login. Contact Aaron Retteen for help making updates on your behalf.
SSRN enables the sharing of drafts and published works across a variety of subject networks. The library can help you upload new papers or update papers currently on SSRN. Read our SSRN Tips for help improving your success on SSRN.
Google Scholar indexes publications across the internet and allows authors to create profiles, claim indexed works, add other works, and capture citation data. Read our Google Scholar Profile Setup page for help setting up your Scholar Profile.
HeinOnline Author Profiles for TAMU Law Faculty
HeinOnline is an online research platform that provides access to a lot of materials, but it also indexes legal scholarship to produce author profiles with usage and engagement data. Authors can link ORCID profiles to HeinOnline.
ORCID profiles are designed to help others find your work and to ensure all your work is recognized. ORCID profiles integrate with platforms and publishers. Register for your free ORCID profile & set up a librarian as a "trusted individual" to get started. You can also connect your ORCID ID to your Scholars@TAMU profile.
Digital Commons Institutional Repository
Texas A&M Law Scholarship, the law school's institutional repository, archives faculty publications, publishes the law school's student journals, features student scholarship, and captures other institutional output. Contact the library to add published works to the repository.
Scholars@TAMU is a profile system that hosts searchable expertise for faculty and TAMU organizations by gathering data from institution-level/enterprise systems, publicly available research data (e.g., grants and publications), and other authoritative sources. The data is compiled into a profile that you can edit to best represent your scholarship and expertise.
Having an active presence on social media networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube can help connect you with a wider audience, more effectively disseminate your work, enable engagement analytics through Altmetrics and PlumX, and communicate to external audiences your expertise. Some social media tips include: