Brian Kelly of the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN, University of Bath, UK will be giving a series of presentations across the UK on how social media can be used to enhance the visibility of research papers hosted in institutional repositories.

The week begins with an hour-long talk on "Open Practices for the Connected Researcher" which will take place on Tuesday 23 October at the University of Exeter as part of their series of Open Access Week events.

A 30 minute talk on "Open Practices for the Connected Researcher" will take place on Thursday 25 October at the University of Salford as the featured invited presentation for the university celebrations for Open Access Week.

Final Brian Kelly and Ross Mounce, a PhD student and Open Knowledge Foundation Panton Fellow at the University of Bath, will launch the Social Media programme for researchers with a session on "Open Access and Open Practices For Researchers"

The slides to be used in the presentations will be available with a Creative Commons CC-BY licence. In addition the slides for the first presentation are also available on Slideshare.