Altmetrics

in the

Academy

Implementing strategies in the library for better academic

engagement, dissemination and measurement

Who we are part 1

10.00 Welcome and introductions10.10 What do you want from the day? What are your experiences of Altmetrics?10:30 An overview of Altmetrics - what, why, where? 11.30 Break12.00 Altmetrics in the Academy - getting academics and librarians on board12.40 Brainstorming session: Value in altmetrics: what questions do people have around this? what are their biggest concerns?1.00 Lunch

Do you use any of these?

And these?

Do you recognise these?

An overview of Altmetrics - what, why where?

The dissemination and communication of research is changing

Presentations and seminars

Funding and ethics applications

Academic books

Journal articles and posters

Term papers and essays

Meetings and conferences

Correspondence

Open access

Supplementary data

Online reference managers

Press

Post-publication peer-review

Social media

Blogs

Traditional metrics struggle to reflect this

- Slow to accrue- Focus mostly on published articles

Published June 2014:

Starting to impact the behaviour of academics

Development of altmetrics

● to complement, not replace traditional metrics

● help people understand how research is being received and used,

and by who

● not intended as an indicator of quality

● can help provide further evidence of engagement and ‘societal

impact’

● give credit for research outputs other than articles

So, what are they?

And who provides them?

Altmetrics at Altmetric

● data quality and curation

● valid, relevant sources

● intuitive user interface

● customer support

● community engagement

Sources of attention

Policy documents

● AWMF - Association of Scientific Medical Societies

● European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

● Food and Agriculture Organization

● GOV.UK - Policy papers, Research & Analysis

● Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

● International Monetary Fund (IMF)

● Mental Health Foundation (UK) - NEW

● NICE Evidence

● UNESCO

● World Health Organization (WHO)

More being added each week…

Aggregating attention

Follow a list of sources(manual curation)

Search for links to papers(automated collection)

Collate attention(disambiguation)

Display data in “Altmetric details pages”

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Digging in to the data

Demographics

Twitter data from bio’s

Mendeley data based on who has saved the article to their library - anonymised

The Altmetric score and donut● developed to give an at-a-glance summary of the attention work has received● not an indicator of quality of the research! ● useful when looking at data for lots of articles at once

Context

Implementations

Publisher uses

And funders...

Librarian access

● Free Altmetric Explorer accounts● Search for data on any article, from any publisher● Share with researchers or admins

“Can I see the data for authors and work just from my institution?”

Altmetric for Institutions

Explore your institution

Reporting

- save search filters

- set up automated email alerts

- export to excel, or reports on individual articles

- API output

- set up direct links into other systems

Who can use the data?

Institutional repositories

- free donut badge embeds

- just 2 lines of code: api.altmetric.com

- helps encourage deposits

- collates attention from all versions

- let us know your domain!

info@altmetric.com

Discovery platforms

Free primo plugin availableIn discussion with ProQuest re: Summon

Researchers

altmetric.it

Details pages alerts

Impact Story

New tools: Kudos

Researcher feedback

They’re still fairly new...

- ongoing review, HEFCE

- project to create standards, NISO

- looking towards Horizon 2020 and next RAE in

Australia

Concerns about gaming and misinterpretation

● part of the reason that we make sure all of our

data is auditable

● and don’t show things like Facebook likes

● systems in place to flag up suspect activity

● beware siloed usage data

But at the end of the day...

Ways to keep up to date

- ImpactStory newsletter

- Altmetric blog

- Plum analytics blog

- Regular webinars

- Follow #altmetrics hashtag on Twitter

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Altmetrics:

A new role for library and information professionals

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Who we are part 2

It’s not just Altmetrics that’s hot

MOOCsOpen AccessImpact Big Data

The research process

Have an ideaSearch for research

Filter and review the research

Publish anddisseminate the research

Measure anddiscuss the research

The research process and you

Have an ideaSearch for research

Filter and review the research

Publish anddisseminate the research

Measure anddiscuss the research

LIS Professionals host, catalogue and search published research

LIS Professionals carry out systematic and literature reviews from search results

LIS Professionals experts in publishing and communication.OA, Social Media, blogging

LIS Professionals experts in measurement,bibliometrics,work in neutral role

Appraising

Social Media

Com

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ImpartialFlexibleHelpful

NetworkedCentrally based

Bibliometrics

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Where the LIS professional fits in

Every researcher is different

An early career researcher who uses a social media every day, mostly for their personal life wants to use social media and altmetrics within their professional setting. They have an idea of the basics, but are also concerned that their line manager who is an older, established academic might perceive the use of such tools as not constituting as work.

How do you resolve that?

● Find evidence which peers are using altmetrics ● Show them tools and shortcuts that highlight this is real work with

real outputs - Tweetdeck, IFTTT, altmetric bookmarklet● Those who have established altmetrics companies are often early

career researchers wanting to get more from their work.● They may have datasets or other outputs they wish to share● It could have the offset of bringing the senior academic on board● Explain it can be a way to build social ties - with publishers,

potential collaborators, fund holders, bloggers and journalists

Every researcher is different

A senior academic asks the question; ‘is Altmetrics a good use of my time?’ They a couple of decades into their career, possibly a professor and have several published papers in a high impact, peer-review journals. They are thinking about engaging with social media and Altmetrics but are not sure whether it would actually benefit their career at this stage.

How do you resolve that?

● Academics like to debate their areas of expertise - explain that on social media there is a conversation taking place right now about their research with some of their peers involved

● Show evidence that altmetrics are a good indicator of future research and hot topics

● Breath life into old research - show how altmetrics gives them new and interesting metrics on their existing papers - where globally a paper is being talked about or saved

● Explain how this can fit in with the growing impact agenda

Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovation

''All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move''.

Benjamin Franklin

Getting academics to the waterhole

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#Understand

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● Their way of working -long periods doing the same thing

● Their concernsPressure to publish research

● Their fearsMay not be used to Social Media ortechnology for that matter

● How busy they are● What they can get out of

Altmetrics

and what you can do to help them

#Demystify

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● Explain that Altmetrics are notabout Justin Bieber’s Tweets to his Beliebers

● That using tools like Altmetrics,Mendeley, Twitter and ImpactStorywill show them where their researchis reaching globally

● Help build case studies toshow what is out there

● Show junior researchers andstudents that their research andprofile will benefit

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● Bite size sessions● Workshops● Video tutorials● Webinars● Hangouts

#Champion● Look to see who on your

campus uses technology and social media

● Take them for a coffee● Get them to present a

session on how they use it

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#Network● Seek out natural

alliesImpact and research support, open access advocates, MOOCsters, library and information professionals, technicians,learning technologists,communications and marketing

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#Practice

Social Media/Altmetric Case study

● Took over Chair of our Communications and Impact (CIG) group in Feb 2014

● Wanted to get more staff using social tools to improve research impact and engagement

● Staff want EVIDENCE ● that it works

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Project!● Agreed to develop a small group of staff

who were not currently using social media to promote their research

● Gave training in Twitter● Regular emails to inform and encourage● Curated Twitter List to monitor their

activities

Results!● All of them are now tweeting at least once

per fortnight● All have gained 30+ followers● Some are much more active, writing own

tweets, MT-ing, etc.● But! Lots of them just retweet :0(● But then again, its early days :0)

...Next, I begged, borrowed and stole their PPTs and Posters...

Slideshare!

● ...to do a companion, comparative study on Slideshare

● Slides of posters and conference PPTs currently on web pages also uploaded to SlideShare

● Half tweeted, half not● Compared views for each ● half of ‘trial’

Results!● All slides/posters have had over 35 views

in 5 months● 70% have over 100● Tweeted ones have average of 166● Non-Tweeted ones have average of 55

views● So these things work in ● tandem with eachother!

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Brainstorming sessionValue in Altmetrics:

What questions do people have around Altmetrics? What are their biggest concerns?What is missing from Altmetrics?What are you doing already?

Lunch

Afternoon Agenda

3.30: Break3.50: Ehsan continued…4.00: Getting mobile, how using mobile apps can help you engage more with Altmetrics 4.20: The Altmetric Explorer4.30: What’s on the horizon? What does the future for scholarly dissemination and impact?4.45: Wrap up and questions

Getting mobile, how using mobile apps can help you engage more with Altmetrics

● The working day is busy enough already● Your mobile device is with you most of the time● 1 or 2 minutes per day (on a commute?) could reap benefits● Twitter is an obvious win for the time- pressed, but what else?

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The Altmetrics Home Screen!

Twitter: tweet links, retweet, start discussions, promote yourself and what you do- your ‘brand’

BBC News: a great source of news stories- if one relates to your research areas, move quickly! Tweet it, and your research papers- make the link in people’s minds.

The Altmetrics Home Screen!

Podcasts: Listen and learn, not just about other’s research, but how to talk about it in lay terms, for a podcast audience

Camera/Photos: You never know when an opportunity to get a shot that could be used with a blog post/podcast will arise- be ready!

The Altmetrics Home Screen!

Blogger: Blog on the go! Dictate content and add images via blogging apps, save and publish later if needs be- get that idea down!

Hootsuite: post to multiple social networks in one! Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more, and use auto-schedule, to avoid pre-work ‘blackspots’ on social media

The Altmetrics Home Screen!

LinkedIn- post to ‘groups’ for targeted impact- can post same things you’d tweet, but with more characters to play with!

audioBoom! (formerly audioBoo): record short audio- yourself or things around you, and share, embed, etc- podcasting ‘lite’

3 things you can do

1. Find what works for you2. Be patient and keep trying3. Look on social and altmetric sites and see

whether they have app versions

Altmetric Explorer: Tasks to try

1. Which article published in the Lancet has seen the most attention in the last week?

2. Find 3 DOIs for articles published by your researchers - and then search for them in the Explorer

3. How many articles mentioned in the last year and published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology have been mentioned in a policy document?

http://bit.ly/M0aQmz

What’s on the horizon? What does the future for scholarly dissemination and impact

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2012/sep/19/peer-review-research-impact-altmetrics

New era for peer review?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/ (Last Accessed 14/10/2014)

http://www.papercritic.com/

https://theconversation.com/profiles/tom-stafford-91781/articles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/zombies_novella.htm

http://youtube.com/v/ZYXALE7pdWE

Wrap up and questions

Thank you

For more information@catherinelucy@andy_tattersall@beakybeecroft@ehsanwlv@altmetric@scharrlib