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Open Access Publishing and Citation Rates:
Getting Rewarded by Improving Access to Your Research
Dr. Bruce Herbert, DirectorOffice of Scholarly Communications
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Metrics of Scholarly Impact
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Key Texas A&M Vision 2020 Metrics
■ Research Expenditures■ Federal Expenditures■ Academy members■ Faculty awards■ Citations
■ Freshman Retention■ 4 Year Graduation Rate■ 6 Year Graduation Rate■ Students with Pell Grants■% Underrepresented
Students
Research Student Success
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Association of American Universities Membership Policies
The members of AAU should be comprehensive universities distinguished by the disciplinary breadth and quality of their programs of graduate education and research.
■ Competitively funded federal research support
■ Membership in the National Academies (NAS, NAE, IOM)
■ Faculty awards, fellowships, and memberships
■ Citations: Thomson Reuters InCitesTM citations (Web of Science) database
Phase 1 Indicators■ USDA, state, and industrial
research funding■ Doctoral education■ Number of postdoctoral
appointees■ Undergraduate education
Phase 2 Indicators
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(Re)Claiming Your Narrative
http://www.aaup.org/reports-and-publications/academe
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Users of Citation Data in Research Evaluation
■What is the level of research activity and its impact?
■What are the most recognized groups?
■What are the characteristics of interdisciplinary scholarship?
■What are the trends of College research?
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Bibliometrics
Bibliometrics is the quantitative analysis of scholarly publications and their citations.
Bibliometrics is used to evaluate three characteristics of scholarship:
• scholarly output• scholarly impact• structural and temporal
features of scholarship
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Skewed Distribution of Publications and Citations
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Sources of Citations Data
■Web of Science (library)
■ SCOPUS (library)■Google Scholar
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Alternative Metrics
■ Usage: clicks downloads, views, library holdings, video plays
■ Captures. Bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers
■ Mentions. Blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links
■ Social Media. +1s, likes, shares, tweets
■ Citations. Pubmed central. Scopus, Patents
Can we identify other indicators of quality that support your scholarly narrative?
https://plu.mx/
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Advancing Scholarly Reputation Through Open Access
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Emerging Issue: Open Access
Open Access
■ Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions
■ Works are still covered by copyright law, but Open Access terms apply to allow sharing and reuse
■ All major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on the importance of peer review
A movement in higher education to increase access to scholarly research and communication, not limiting it solely to subscribers or purchasers of works.
http://sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access
Texas A&M UniversityA Land Grant, Space Grant, and
Sea Grant Institution
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Texas A&M University Libraries Emerging Issue: Open AccessFederal Mandates For Public Access to Research
Publication repositories
Tools to create data management plans
Data repositories (soon)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research
The Library Supports:
http://guides.library.tamu.edu/DataManagement
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Texas A&M University Libraries Impact of Open Access on Citation Rates
The report: http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncommsreport2014.pdf
The Research Information Network, a British research center, recently analyzed the distribution and impact of articles published in hybrid science journal Nature Communications.
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OAK Fund: Funding Publication in OA Journals
http://scholarlycommunication.library.tamu.edu/oak-fund/
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OAK Trust: TAMU’s Institutional Repository
http://repository.tamu.edu/
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Texas A&M University Libraries Seeking Faculty Feedback:
Developing Data Repository
http://thedata.org//
■ Design a Texas Digital Library system
■ Use disciplinary repositories?■ Needed policies:
• Embargoes• Sensitive data
■ Ability to link to articles or cite data■ Link graduate student data to ETDs
in TAMU repository?
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PIVOT Funding Database
■ Provides access to a comprehensive database of global source of funding opportunities
■ Pushes search results automatically to researchers via periodic email. Search results are guided by researcher profiles including keywords of interests and expertise.
■ Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office through group notification functions.
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The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers and scholars with their professional activities.
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Emerging Issue: Identity & Reputation
Scholarly Identity on the Internet
• Name ambiguity• Discoverability within and across databases• Author, grantee, and faculty record management• Output tracking• Research reporting and impact assessment
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Access Increases Institutional Impact
http://youtu.be/wPn5XfhDOBE
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/
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Texas A&M University Libraries Recommendations■ Analyze and use your citations
■Workshop will be offered ■ Make scholarship and data available as open access.
■ Texas A&M’s institutional repository■Disciplinary open access repositories.■Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund can help pay for any publication fees
■ Claim your ORCID■ Authors should retain copyright to their scholarly work so that the work can be
repurposed and reused in new and innovative ways. ■ The library can work with Dean’s Offices to conduct bibliometric research at the
organizational level to support strategic planning.