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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Anianet?
Anianet is a professional network that connects Chinese scholars to their counterparts in America and Europe. Many Chinese researchers, professors, and other academic professionals such as you are conducting vital, groundbreaking work. By creating a profile on the Anianet community that details your professional accomplishments, publishing and teaching histories, research interests, and collaborations, you will be able to increase your international visibility, creating lasting and meaningful links among researchers sharing common interests. In addition, Anianet provides vital information to Chinese scholars, including western grants, research partnerships, jobs, fellowships, meetings, publications, and other opportunities. In short, Anianet serves as the 'western base of operations' for Chinese scholars.
Why should I join?
The service is absolutely free and will help you:
- Make yourself better known in America and Europe.
- Make it easier for western journal editors and funding agencies to learn about the work you do.
- Increase your chances of getting published in top English-language journals.
- Keep you informed about the latest news, articles, grants, and meetings in your field.
Your profile will be available to the thousands of western scholars who are receiving announcements about Anianet. Creating a profile today will no doubt increase your visibility among this group. In addition, you will have immediate access to western content from thousands of sources - news, announcements, abstracts, grant opportunities, etc. - in your specific subject area. This tailored content appears in your profile page and is updated automatically throughout the day.
What is the Anianet experience for members?
Here is how Anianet works. First, you take a few minutes to create a Member Profile. Membership is absolutely free, no special technical skills are required, and the Anianet staff will proof your English to ensure that your profile is clear and complete. The Member Profile describes your research interests, institutional affiliation, publishing history, teaching experience, awards, collaboration histories, and other details of your professional accomplishments. You can enhance your profile by including pictures, your CV, links to published articles and presentations, and so forth. Profiles can be easily updated by members at any time.
Once your Member Profile has been created, you can use Anianet in a variety of ways. The site contains lots of resources to better connect Chinese scholars with the goings-on in their field. What conferences are upcoming? What breakthroughs have just been published in a journal or reported in the mainstream media? What visiting fellowships and grant opportunities have recently been announced? Anianet collects this information from hundreds of sources and makes it available to you automatically on your profile page. You will be notified only of that information that is relevant to you ñ neuroscientists receive neuroscientist updates, archaeologists receive archaeology updates, and so forth. These information feeds will help you keep up to date with western developments and opportunities.
Anianet membership also helps western scholars better see who is who in the Chinese research community. Many American and European researchers have only a vague understanding of the important and innovative work being conducted in other areas of the world. It is often difficult for them to gain a complete picture of a non-westerner's interests, accomplishments, and stature. Anianet encourages western scholars to explore Member Profiles to identify and contact possible Chinese collaborators, seek out Chinese co-authors, vet prospective editorial board members, and so forth. Anianet is a single site where westerners can go to do these tasks. Having a membership is a great way to increase a Chinese scholar's visibility among his/her western counterparts.
Anianet is also a community in which members can communicate with one another, set up groups, post a variety of content (e.g., presentations, lecture videos, podcasts), and exchange information and ideas about research, teaching, and career advancement. Members are encouraged to interact, invite others to join, and forge interesting and unexpected connections within the network.
Who can join Anianet?
Anyone may access the Anianet web site and browse selected aspects of the community. Anianet membership - which includes the ability to create a Member Profile, post user content, and access the information feeds detailed above - is intended solely for those meeting the following eligibility requirements: Members must be 18 or older. Members must be professors, researchers, scholars, graduate students, undergraduate students, scientists, clinicians or others whose primary career focus is scholarly research. Members must be either (a) affiliated with a Chinese institution of higher learning, research facility, or other research-oriented entity, or (b) be a Chinese national affiliated with an institution of higher learning, research facility, or other research-oriented entity abroad. For more information, see our Terms of Service.
Who should join Anianet?
Any Chinese scholar interested in forging better connections with the west should join. Anianet is the #1 site where American and European scholars can go to learn about who is who in the Chinese research community. For example:
Chinese authors should join, because western journal reviewers use Anianet to better understand the qualifications and accomplishments of author who have submitted manuscripts to their journals.
Chinese scholars interested in speaking at international conferences should join, because western meeting organizers use Anianet to vet conference participants.
Chinese scholars interested in studying or working in the west should join, because western evaluation committees use Anianet to learn more about their applicants.
While you may already have a personal web site or a page on your department's or institution's web site, Anianet is the one place westerners can go to look at the profiles, interests, and qualifications of thousands of Chinese scholars. Chinese scholars can and should put a link to their Anianet Member Profile on manuscript submissions, grant applications, conference proposals, and emails to western colleagues, among other possibilities. Anianet serves as the 'western base of operations' for Chinese scholars.
In addition to increasing the visibility of Chinese scholars among their western peers, Anianet also brings information about new developments and opportunities directly to its members. Information feeds (including an on-site searchable database, RSS feed, email alerts, announcements on your Member Profile page) keep Anianet members up to date on the latest scholarly articles, news, funding opportunities, meetings, and other developments in their specific fields. Anianet members know what is happening in their field in Europe and the United States.
What can non-members do on the site?
We actively encourage scholars from around the world to use Anianet. Although they cannot create Member Profiles or access information feeds, these researchers can and should use Anianet as a vital database of Chinese scholars and research activities. No other site provides an easy way for American and European scholars to learn about who is doing what in the Chinese research community. Anianet allows non-members to search and browse members by name, institutional affiliation, subject expertise, and a variety of other parameters. The Anianet site is ideal for, among other activities: (a) westerners interested in finding collaborators and co-authors; (b) journal reviewers seeking to better understand the qualifications and accomplishments of author who have submitted manuscripts to their journals; (c) meeting organizers evaluating prospective conference participants; and (d) evaluation committees charged with vetting foreign exchange or visiting scholar applicants. Non-members can also sign up to be notified when new content and users in their area of interest are available within the Anianet community. This makes staying abreast of Chinese research easier than ever before.
Written in English, neatly and concisely organized, Anianet Member Profiles can save time, money, and hassle for any westerner looking to learn more about a Chinese colleague. Anianet is simply the most effective conduit to Chinese scholars and researchers.
My English is not great. Should I still join Anianet?
Yes! Once you create your Member Profile, you can contact our team for free help to ensure that it is clear and complete. Simply contact help@anianet.com and ask us to take a look. We'll offer suggested edits and enhancements for free.
I am not Chinese or in China but I want to create a profile. Can I do so?
Not at present. We hope and expect to expand the Anianet community very shortly. For now, however, only those meeting the eligibility requirements described above are eligible to join. If you would like to be notified when this restriction changes, please send us an email at help@anianet.com and will put you on our list. Please feel free to browse other aspects of the site in the meantime.
Does Anianet use some sort of categorization system to link scholars to content and peers who share their interests?
Yes. Anianet uses a three-tiered classification system based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data (1297.0 - Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification, 2008) made available via a Creative Commons license. ABS data is used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.