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This is a presentation about altmetrics given at the RMSLA Fall meeting of 2014.
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Altmetrics at Altitude: Attaining Higher Ground
Joseph Kraus
University of Denver
For the RMSLA Membership meeting, October 29, 2014
I am going to put this online at URL, so you don’t have to take prodigious notes.
Anyone want to be the Google Jockey?
Note:
Today, we are going to cover:
What, who, when, where, why, and how
Altmetrics
What the heck is it?
Altmetrics – What?
Article-Level Metrics
Artifact-Level Metrics
Other terms
Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar, Stacy Konkiel (ImpactStory)
Martin Fenner (PLOS) William Gunn (Mendeley) Euan Adie (Altmetric) Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman
(Plum Analytics)
Altmetrics – Who?
http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/building-skyscrapers-with-our-scholarship
Other interested parties
NISO
Publishers
Librarians/Information Professionals
Readers
Policy makers
Altmetrics – Who?
Right now and into the future.
Altmetrics – When?
Any place where people care about metrics
Such as administrators. Are there any who do not?
San Francisco - Mention DORA
Altmetrics – Where?
Because Reasons!
Altmetrics – Why?
Concerning social media, “there is a danger that this form of com-munication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices.”
Altmetrics – Why?
“‘Let's laugh at those silly scientists doing social media outreach when they should be writing papers!’ The K-index trivialises those of us who work hard to communicate science with the public.”
Altmetrics – Why?
“Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'
Altmetrics – Why?
Publish or perish culture Where (and how often) one publishes
should not be the main concern Evaluate the quality of the work Some organizations have vowed to say
that the journal name is not under consideration
Altmetrics – Why?
Broader Impacts Review Criterion
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07046/nsf07046.jsp
“Broaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technological understanding, for example, by presenting results of research and education projects in formats useful to students, scientists and engineers, members of Congress, teachers, and the general public.”
Altmetrics – Why?
ImpactStory https://impactstory.org/JosephKraus
Plum Analytics
Pitt
Altmetric For Institutions
Bookmarklet
Altmetrics – How?
From the publisher
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046150
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6208/1253596.full
Altmetrics – How?
Who said or wrote:
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Pop Quiz
Questions?
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/
http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/6/292.full
http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/altmetrics
For further reading
Library Journal article on Plum by Bonnie Swoger
https://www.diigo.com/user/jokrausdu/altmetrics
Follow #altmetrics on Twitter http://www.mendeley.com/groups/586
171/altmetrics/
More further reading
Found some in Google Images, “labeled for reuse with modification” or Flickr with 2 different CC licenses
Raised hands http://www.ok.gov/abletech/images/Classroom-FourthGraders.jpg via http://www.ok.gov/abletech/Special_Education_Resolution_Center/
https://twitter.com/IanMulvany/status/425006889949495296
Image credits
Human pyramid http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobaltfish/9614174604/ CC-BY-SA.
Elevator http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodudedan/448988655/ CC-BY 2.0
Image credits