Institutional Altmetrics and Academic Libraries

Roemer, Robin Chin; Borchardt, Rachel

doi:10.3789/isqv25no2.2013.03

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“…Elsevier has also partnered with Altmetric.com 4 , an altmetric aggregator, and Mendeley 5 , a social bookmarking tool (Roemer & Borchardt, 2013). Research on altmetrics has also been growing rapidly at a steady increase since 2011 (Erdt et al, forthcoming).…”

Section: Altmetricsmentioning

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Investigating singapore's altmetric landscape

Erdt

Aung

et al. 2016

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Altmetrics is an emerging measure for academic impact and it is gaining in global importance. In this paper, we analyse the altmetric landscape of Singapore, a young nation with a fast growing international research sector. We aim to find out if the coverage of altmetrics across the different disciplines is increasing along with the fast increase in the amount of research publications in recent years. We also look into how altmetrics relate to traditional citation counts as a measure of research impact. From our results, we see that there is overall an 18% coverage of altmetrics of Singapore publications from 2009 to 2013. The number of publications with available altmetric data has also been increasing over the years for most disciplines. Correlation results between citation counts and altmetrics show medium to low correlations with distinct differences amongst the various disciplines. A high coverage of altmetrics however does not seem to lead to larger correlations with citation counts. Singapore thus remains an intriguing case study to watch in the coming years.

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confidence: 99%

Investigating singapore's altmetric landscape

Erdt

Aung

et al. 2016

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…Elsevier recently purchased the online reference manager Mendeley, while Plum Analytics and their research database, PlumX, were purchased by EBSCO in 2014. As a whole, interest in and adoption of altmetrics tools seem to be growing steadily (Roemer & Borchardt, 2013).…”

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“…This is a natural extension of the LIS field in which bibliometrics practice and research has been situated. New metrics provide the opportunity for academic librarians to practise their skills such as database navigation and analysis, familiarity with tools such as Web of Science and Scopus, and experience with the university promotion and tenure processes, in a new context (Åstrom & Hansson 2012;Bladek 2014;Brigham, 2014;Brown, 2014;Gumpenberger, Wieland, & Gorraiz, 2012;Herther 2013;Kennan, Corrall, & Afzal, 2014;MacColl 2010a;MacColl 2010b;Roemer and Borchardt 2013;Roemer & Borchardt, 2015a).…”

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Academic Librarians’ Knowledge of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

Malone

Burke

2016

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the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncsa/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -To measure the knowledge and opinions that academic librarians have of established and emerging research metrics.Methods -An online survey was distributed to all academic librarians in Oklahoma during Summer 2015.Results -Librarians were less familiar with altmetrics than with bibliometrics, but they viewed altmetrics as effective and were interested in receiving training to learn more about them. Librarians who had been in the profession for over five years knew more about both bibliometrics and altmetrics than newer librarians.

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“…Altmetrics is the study and use of scholarly impact measures, based on activity in online tools and environments. According to the Altmetrics manifesto, 'altmetrics expands our view of what impact looks like, but also of what's making the impact' (Roemer et al 2013).…”

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Open Data and the Knowledge Society

Wessels¹,

Finn²,

Wadhwa³

et al. 2017

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While there is a lot of talk about how we now live in a knowledge society, the reality has been less impressive: We have yet to truly transition to a knowledge society-in part, this book argues, because discussion mostly focuses on a knowledge economy and information society rather than on ways to mobilise to create an actual knowledge society. That all may change, however, with the rise of open data and big data. This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation, showing that at the heart of any successful mobilisation will be an emerging open data ecosystem and new ways for societal actors to effectively produce and use data.

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Institutional Altmetrics and Academic Libraries

Abstract: ROBIN CHIN ROEMER AND RACHEL BORCHARDT "NO ONE CAN READ EVERYTHING." So begins the Altmetrics Manifesto, first published online in late 2010 by the pioneering quartet of Priem, Taraborelli, Groth, and Neylon.

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Investigating singapore's altmetric landscape

Investigating singapore's altmetric landscape

Academic Librarians’ Knowledge of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics

Open Data and the Knowledge Society

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