<div dir="ltr">Universities often don’t have their own in-house tools and services available to assist academics in their journey towards being a digital scholar, achieving a good online presence and curating and sharing their work. Many institutions have static (and often outdated) academic profiles which usually aren’t user-friendly or easy to access and are often updated by the IT unit or a departmental representative and not by the academic themselves. Not surprisingly, academics don’t feel as if they own this space or have much control over it, <b><font color="#ff0000">so they have to go outside the university to showcase their work and collaborations</font></b> – which is likely to help them attract recognition, prestige, funding and promotions<div>
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