Altmetrics culs 2014

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

Transitions in scholarly communication

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:

Publishers: Wiley Nature PLoS Frontiers Biomed Central Springer Elsevier

Where can I get them?

Aggregators PLoS ImpactStory Altmetric PlumAnalytics ResearchGate CitedIn ScienceCard ReaderMeter PaperCritic

Where can I get them?

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 [email protected]

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

Galligan, F., & Dyas-Correia, S. (2013). Altmetrics: Rethinking the way we measure. Serials Review, 39(1), 56–61.

Luther, J. (2014). Altmetrics boosted by EBSCO’s acquisition of Plum Analytics. The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved from http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/02/05/altmetrics-boosted-by-ebscos-acquisitions-of-plum-analytics/

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

Thomson Reuters Statement Regarding the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - Research Analytics - Thomson Reuters. (n.d.). Retrieved May 4, 2014, from http://researchanalytics.thomsonreuters.com/statement_re_sfdra/

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