Skip to Main Content

Scholarly Communications Resources

This guide contains resources and information about Scholarly Communications services provided to faculty and students at Texas A&M University School of Law.

Author Profile Platforms

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

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

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

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

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.

Social Media

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:

  • Make Blurbs - When writing longer publications, think about ways you can create snippets or short blurbs about your work to share on social media platforms.
  • Link Back - When blogging, link back to your publication(s) on SSRN or Bepress. When posting on social media, link back to blogs or videos, and include links to your publication(s) on SSRN or Bepress.
  • Generate Your Network - Create a network of peers and engage with each other's work and content. In your peer group, you can coordinate with each other to highlight publications or presentations and spread the word about your work.
  • Leverage Publisher Marketing - Vendors and publishers like SSRN and other organizations or entities you work with that have an interest in promoting your work will sometimes work with you to post content on your behalf to help promote engagement.
  • Be active and intentional - develop a social media network of people that you follow and by being active and relevant you will start accumulating followers. Plan out posts in advance so that you can schedule content to come out on a regular basis without having to do it yourself each time.
  • Work with MarComm - Marketing & Communications staff are here to help you amplify your activity with School of Law accounts.
  • Altmetrics - Use the Altmetric Explorer to keep track of engagement across different social media platforms.
  • Connect with TAMU - Use the Official Texas A&M Social Media Channel webpage which lists the social media accounts for many TAMU campuses.