Great ways to start building your profile include:
Communities such as these provide you with a platform to share your scholarly work with a global audience and to situate it in the context of your discipline.
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DOOR - is the institutional repository for Douglas College. DOOR "showcases and preserves the scholarly, research and creative works of the Douglas College community....(and) enables Douglas College researchers who have been funded to comply with Canada's Tri-Agency Open Access Policy."
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Google Scholar Profiles: allow you "to showcase (your) academic publications...(and) check who is citing your articles, graph citations over time," and more. You can make your profile public, "so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name."
Figshare: is an online repository for papers, open data and "non-traditional research outputs." The basic Figshare account allows free file uploads up to 20GB for individual users. Check your publishing agreements to ensure you're permitted to share your published research on this site and/or which version may be uploaded, e.g., pre-print or post-print.
arXiv: "is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,024,644 scholarly articles" in the sciences, including physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. Submissions may be pre-print or post-print versions of articles as permitted by your publisher.
Academia.edu: is a social networking site for scholars. It allows you to create a profile page, share your research publications (as permitted by your publisher), monitor usage data and to follow your peers. It operates on a "freemium" model, with many useful features only available to paid subscribers.
ResearchGate: is a social networking site for scholars. Allows you to create a profile page, share your work (as permitted by your publisher), follow your peers, "get in-depth stats on who's been reading your work and keep track of your citations."
Altmetrics "measure the impact of scholarship by using new social media tools such as bookmarks, links, blog postings, inclusion in citation management tools, mentions and tweets to measure the importance of scholarly output" (Harvard Kennedy School. Measuring your scholarly impact).
Impactstory: Free to join with a Twitter Account, "Impactstory is an open-source website that helps researchers explore and share the the online impact of their research."
Dimensions: Is a searchable database of over 120 million research publications. Where relevant, articles display citation counts and altmetric attention scores.
Altmetric: Free Tools: Altmetric is a subscription-based service that provides a free bookmarklet to individuals that will allow you to check various altmetrics at the individual article level.
