Article · Volume 3, Issue 1 · pp. 28-34

Personal Academic Websites Serving Scholarly Work Purpose

Rosaria Ciriminna¹, Mario Pagliaro¹

¹Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, Palermo, ITALY.

Abstract

A personal academic website is a space on the World Wide Web through which a scholar proactively communicates her/his activities in research, education and societal service to the public. Is having such website worth the effort? Does a personal website provide real benefits to the scholarly activities of a researcher and educator? And, if yes, why and how? Referring to selected examples, this study shows how a personal academic website can serve the overall purpose of scholarly work, independently of the disciplinary field.

Keywords: Personal academic website; Self-archiving; green open access; Scholarly work; Impactful research.

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