Atlantic Provinces Library Association 2021 Conference

Internet profile sites like Google Scholar Profile and ORCID ID, are used by academics, and other authors to showcase their journal articles, presentations, books, etc. 
Correctly distinguishing work by individual authors, is a major problem, internet search engines, and major article databases have not been able to solve.   Authors need to use online profiles to link all of their work, even when the author publishes under different variations of their name.  Profiles distinguish work by one author from  work by many other authors of the same name.   They also consistently affiliate each author with the institution they work for.
This session will discuss  a number of popular online profile sites, such as Academia.edu, Researchgate, Publons,  and Mendeley.  It will look at the benefits and drawbacks of each.    But the focus will be on ORCID and Google Scholar Profiles.  The session will show important relationship between these profile tools and the primary  journal indexes Elsevier Scopus and Web of Science/Web of Knowledge.
This session will demonstrate the many  benefits of online profile sites, and look at the growing importance of maintaining up-to-date online personal profiles.