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Altmetrics: What Good are They to Academic Libraries?
Sarah W. Sutton
Kanas Library Association – College & University Libraries SectionSpring Conference 2014Emporia State UniversityMay 21, 2014
Transitions in scholarly communications
What are altmetrics?
Advantages and disadvantages
Uses in academic libraries
Objectives
Alternative metrics
Article-level
Alterative to Journal Impact Factor, H-Index
Proxy for importance? Impact? Attention?
Measure of quality?
What are altmetrics?
Journal Impact Factor (JIF):
2008 2-year journal impact factor =
the number of times the articles published in a journal in 2006 and 2007,
were cited by journal articles during 2008
-- Divided by –
the total number of "citable items" published by that journal
in 2006 and 2007
What are altmetrics?
H-Index:
Aggregators PLoS ImpactStory Altmetric PlumAnalytics ResearchGate CitedIn ScienceCard ReaderMeter PaperCritic
Where can I get them?
Advantages
New insights in impact
Based on open data
Speed
Diversity of sources
Advantages & Disadvantages
Disadvantages
Too many variations; uncontrolled
“Gaming”
Bias
Establishing standards
Advantages & Disadvantages
Big data
Research impact
Collection development
Marketing
Return on investment (ROI)
Grants & funding
Ebooks
Open Access
Use in academic libraries
…more research is needed
One size fits all?
Triangulation
Bridging the gap
Establishing standards
A word of caution…
Questions? Comments?Sarah W. Sutton, Ph.D.
School of Library and Information ManagementEmporia State Universityssutton3@emporia.edu
Slides:
Adie, E., & Roe, W. (2013). Altmetric: Enriching scholarly content with article-level discussion and metrics. Learned Publishing, 26(1), 11–17.
Article-Level Metrics: An ill-conceived and meretricious Idea. (2013). Scholarly Open Access. Retrieved from http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/08/01/article-level-metrics/
Chamberlain, S. (2013). Consuming article-level metrics: Observations and lessons. Information Standards Quarterly, 25(2), 4. doi:10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.02
Crotty, D. (2014). Altmetrics: Mistaking the means for the end. The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved from http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/05/01/altmetrics-mistaking-the-means-for-the-end/
Ebsco Information Sevices. (2014). PlumTM Analytics Becomes Part of EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved May 20, 2014, from http://www.ebscohost.com/newsroom/stories/plum-analytics-becomes-part-of-ebsco-information-services
Bibliography
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Konkiel, S. (2013). Altmetrics: A 21st-century solution to determining research quality. (Online Searcher, 37(4), 11–15.
Liu, J., & Adie, E. (2013). Five challenges in altmetrics: A toolmaker’s perspective. Bulletin of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 39(4), 31–34.
NISO. (2014). NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project. NISO. Retrieved from http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/
Piwowar, H., 2. (2013). Introduction altmetrics: What, why and where? Bulletin of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 39(4), 8–9.
References
Plum Analytics. (2014). Retrieved May 4, 2014, from http://www.plumanalytics.com/
Priem, J., & Costello, K. L. (2010). How and why scholars cite on Twitter. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15J41q9EzK3CiMMoIPKY545ACndORpa6Wtj75v1YjrzQ/edit#slide=id.i0
Priem, J., Taraborelli, D., Groth, P., & Neylon, C. (2010). Altmetrics: A manifesto. Retrieved from http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
Project COUNTER Code of Practice for Electronic Resources: Release 4. (2012). Project COUNTER. Retrieved from http://www.projectcounter.org/r4/COPR4.pdf
ResearchGate. (2014). Retrieved May 9, 2014, from http://www.researchgate.net/
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. (2014, April 15). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from http://am.ascb.org/dora/files/sfdeclarationfinal.pdf
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