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WOUTER GERRITSMA, VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM@WOWTER
ALTMETRIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIBRARIES
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CONTENTS
• The Library as the natural place for Altmetrics
Major library roles• Outreach• Collecting• Groundwork
Altmetric opportunities for libraries
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WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS IN LIBRARY RELATED PRODUCTS
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LIBRARY OUTREACH : WHAT ARE ALTMETRICS
• Know the subject of Altmetrics• Start small, gain experience• Altmetrics ≠ twitter mentions, facebook likes
• But the connection to social networks is important to make
• For researchers their publication list is their fundamental social network
• Share your presentations and experience, they are the ticket for your subsequent presentation
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COLLECTING ALTMETRICS
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INTEGRATION WITH THE CRIS
Current Research Information System• One of the important source systems at the campus,
specialized in collecting publication information• Closely integrated with the institutional repository• Leave out the C
Institutional Bibliography
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INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
Collecting publication information • Collecting for the sake of collecting, has no purpose• Collecting for reporting only, has no purpose
The fun part is in the analysis• Bibliometrics• Altmetrics• Collaboration analysis• Collection analysis• Visualizations
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COLLECTING AND ANALYZING
Librarians need new skill setsGet your CRIS in good shapeFor the analytics, there are commercial providers
Bibliometrics: InCites, SciVal in NL: CWTS monitorAltmetrics:
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COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF OUTPUT
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Scholarly publicationsPeer reviewed articles 5347Non-refereed articles 146Books 100Book sections 666PhD Theses 383Conference contributions 414
Professional publicationsArticles 584Books 36Book sections 109Annotations 144Conference contributions 33Reports 261
Popular publicationsBooks 12Book sections 33Magazine article 253
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PREPARE THE UNIVERSITY OUTPUT FOR METRICS
• Support researchers with their ORCiD• Assign permanent, citable, identifiers to grey output
• Theses• Working papers• Reports• Conference contributions
DOI is the only realistic option
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2 WARNINGS
• Don’t collect metrics for peer reviewed articles only
• Don’t concentrate on the best predictor for citations
ButHave a basket full of metrics,
to let them tell stories about their research
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THANK YOU !
University Library Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAltmetric opportunities for libraries
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