History Faculty

To promote your own work, you could do a few things. 

For any texts:

• Post and cross-post on all the social media platforms that you use
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram (the text has a front page or cover)
  • Your blog
  • Your department's blog
• Ask your friends to just post on their social media accounts about your work
• Update your personal website (and/or faculty page) with an "media toolkit"
• Look into relevant institutional or group blogs and request permission to write a short, information text about the topic of your publication
• Set up an alert for reviews and post about those reviews (when they're excellent)

For books and edited volumes:

• Request relevant journals review your book/anthology
• Have someone who likes your book (and there are lots) write a review on Amazon.
• Alert your publisher when you'll be at a conference so they'll have the book out on display (and then post a picture with you and the book)

From the Boston College Libraries side, there are a few things we can do for depending on what you've published. 

• Send out a Tweet celebrating your work, whatever that work maybe
• Purchase a copy of your book or the anthology your chapter was published in for Boston College Libraries
• Do a "New Faculty Publications" interview with you about your new monograph, anthology, movie, or series of articles
  • Decide how you want the interview disseminated: Boston College Libraries only, New Books Network, on your webpage?

To have us do any of these things, write your subject liaison.