ProQuest presentation 2014

1. The Library Platform & Altmetrics
Sue Wortman
Social Work Librarian
University of Michigan
June 17, 2014

4. Ways Libraries Facilitate Knowledge
• Provide Access
• Provide Training
• Provide a safe environment
• Build motivation to learn

5. • Badging
• Curricular, co-curricular connected
• Transforming student learning
• Scale and monetization
• Pedagogy driving change
• Innovation and experimentation
• Digital education/online environment
• Residential learning: authentic, participatory,
problem-based
• Engaged learning: service, study abroad, action-based
• Learning technology
• Portfolios and reflective learning
• Collaboration
• Community, diversity, civil engagement

6. University
• Innovation and
experimentation
• Digital
education/online
environment
• Learning technology
• Collaboration
• Community
• Provide access
• Provide training
• Provide safe
environment
• Build motivation to
learn
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7. Altmetrics

8. Altmetrics Manifesto - 2010
1. “Peer-review is antiquated due to changes in
the speed of scholarly publishing and doesn’t
hold reviewers accountable.”
2. “Counting citations is insufficient and can
take years for reliable results.”
3. “Journal impact factors are suspect and are
used for purposes for which they were never
intended.”

9. “Do not use journal-based metrics, such
as Journal Impact Factors (JIFs), as surrogate
measures of the quality of individual
research articles, to assess individual
scientists’ contributions, or in hiring,
promotion, or funding decisions.”

10. • April 2013 – Elsevier acquired Mendeley
• May 2013 – Wiley piloted providing data from
Altmetric in their open access journals
• June 2013 – National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) project starts
• January 2014 – Plum Analytics is acquired by EBSCO &
Taylor & Francis partner with Figshare
• February 2014 – SpringerLink adds Altmetric
• March 2014 – British platform Kudos relaunched with
Altmetric data
• June 9, 2014 – NISO releases first draft of their white
paper on standardizing altmetrics
• June 14, 2014 – Altmetric releases tool to gather
institution-wide metrics

11. Standardization
1. Defining altmetrics
2. Including different forms of research
outputs
3. Making work discoverable earlier
4. Measuring quality of research
5. Gaming the system – making data open &
standardized
6. Aggregating/grouping alternative metrics
7. Using the data in context

12. University of Michigan Researchers
• School of Social Work – Collaborative Tools

13. University of Michigan Librarians

14. What Can Librarians Do?
• Stay informed
• Be a part of the current conversations
• Know the tools
• Integrate altmetrics into outreach & education
Lapinski, S., Piwowar, H. & Priem, J. (2013). Riding the crest of the altmetrics
wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of
research impact metrics. College & Research Library News, 74(6), 292-300.

15. “Although moves toward a major reliance on
[altmetrics and ALMs] in research are
premature, and the notion of an ‘article impact
factor’ is fraught with difficulty, with the
development of standards, transparency and
improved understanding of these metrics, they
will be come valuable sources of evidence of the
research of individual research outputs, as well
as tools to support new ways to navigate
the literature.”
- David Drubin

16. • Provide access to altmetrics and ALM
• Provide training on altmetrics and ALM
• Provide a safe environment
• Build motivation to learn about altmetrics
and ALM

17. “Be it practice, policies, programs,
and/or tools, librarians seek to enrich,
capture, store and disseminate the
conversations of their community.”
R. David Lankes

18. Credits
• “Platform 3A”, by Lena Vaseljeva, https://flic.kr/p/eSPQG7
• Watson, R. (2010). Future files: a brief history of the next 50 years. [New ed.].
London: Nicholas Brealey Pub.
• Lankes, R. D. (2012). Expect more: Demanding better libraries for today’s
complex world. http://quartz.syr.edu/blog/wp-content/
uploads/2014/01/ExpectMoreOpen.pdf
• Priem, J., Taraborelli, D., Neylon, C. (2010/. Altmetrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26
October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto
• San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, http://am.ascb.org/dora
• Drubin, D. (2014, June 11). Time to discard the metric that decides how
science is rated. The Conversation. Retrieved from
http://theconversation.com/time-to-discard-the-metric-that-decides-how-science-
is-rated-27733
• Lankes, R. D. (2011). The atlas of new librarianship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press.

19. Questions?