Scholarship 2.0: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

The Article of the Future Is Now Live!

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:45:00 +0000

Resulting from the Article of the Future project innovations, we are now able to announce the SciVerse ScienceDirect redesigned article page, with a new layout including a navigational pane and an optimized reading middle pane.

The Article of the Future project- an ongoing initiative aiming to revolutionize the traditional format of the academic paper in regard to three key elements: presentation, content and context.

About the Article of the Future

Elsevier invests in platform innovation bringing together solutions like SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus and web/third party content into one point of access: SciVerse. Now, through the Article of the Future project, Elsevier is redefining the article and associated article page on SciVerse ScienceDirect to allow for an optimal exchange of formal scientific research between scientist

The Article of the Future project is our never-ending quest to explore better ways to create and deliver the formal published record.
The Article of the Future format makes Elsevier journals on SciVerse ScienceDirect the best possible place to expose and explore research
Developed with 150 researchers
Redesigned article presentation for excellent on-line readability and seamless navigation
Discipline-specific content, format, and tools adjusted to the author and user needs and workflow
Enriched article content with features such as the Protein Viewer, Genome Viewer and Google Maps
Enables authors to put their article in the context of other research such as Genbank and Protein Data Bank

Sources Available At

[ http://www.articleofthefuture.com ]

New SPARC Community Resource on Article-Level Metrics

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:43:00 +0000

Greg Tananbaum / April 16, 2013

Today, SPARC released a new community resource, Article-Level Metrics -- A SPARC Primer, delving into Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) an emerging hot topic in the scholarly publishing arena. Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. This new SPARC primer is designed to give campus leaders and other interested parties an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities and metrics, and how they might be considered for use in the tenure and promotion process.

While Article-Level Metrics are not inherently part of the open access movement, they are tools that can be applied in a variety of ways that are of interest to SPARC and its constituents. The community can develop, distribute, and build upon ALM tools in a manner that opens up impact metrics as never before. These community efforts are transparent in the methodologies they use to track impact, as well as the technologies behind the processes. In this manner, ALMs dovetail with not just SPARC's push for open access but various other “open” movements – open science, open data, and open source chief among them. ALMs that are free to use, modify, and distribute contribute to a world in which information is more easily shared and in which the pace of research and development is accelerated as a consequence.

Source and Link Available At

[http://www.sparc.arl.org/media/blog/new-sparc-community-resource-on-article-level-metr.shtml]

The Future of Publishing > _Nature_ Special Issue

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:51:00 +0000

After nearly 400 years in the slow-moving world of print, the scientific publishing industry is suddenly being thrust into a fast-paced online world of cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing. Long-established practices are being challenged by new ones – most notably, the open-access, author-pays publishing model. In this special issue, Nature takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades.

How scientists share and reuse information is driven by technology but shaped by discipline.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )

NEWS

Sham journals scam authors
Con artists are stealing the identities of real journals to cheat scientists out of publishing fees.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )

NEWS FEATURES

The true cost of science publishing
Cheap open-access journals raise questions about the value publishers add for their money.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )

The library reboot
As scientific publishing moves to embrace open data, libraries and researchers are trying to keep up.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )
The dark side of publishing

The explosion in open-access publishing has fuelled the rise of questionable operators.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )
COMMENT

Beyond the paper
The journal and article are being superseded by algorithms that filter, rate and disseminate scholarship as it happens, argues Jason Priem.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )
A fool's errand

Objections to the Creative Commons attribution licence are straw men raised by parties who want open access to be as closed as possible, warns John Wilbanks.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )
How to hasten open access

Three advocates for a universally free scholarly literature give their prescriptions for the movement’s next push, from findability to translations.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )
BOOKS AND ARTS

Q&A: Knowledge liberator
Robert Darnton heads the world's largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver behind the new Digital Public Library of America. Ahead of its launch in April, he talks about Google, science journals and the open-access debate.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )

CAREERS

Open to possibilities
Opting for open access means considering costs, journal prestige and career implications.
Nature ( 28 March 2013 )

Source and Access to Full Text Available At

[http://www.nature.com/news/specials/scipublishing/index.html]

A/V Now Available > FREE Webcast > Individual and Scholarly Networks > A Two-Part Seminar on Building Networks and Evaluating Network Relationships > January 22 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:14:00 +0000

Collaborative platforms and social networking websites are becoming popular with scientists and researchers around the world: scholars can connect between institutions, countries and disciplines easily, faster and better than ever before. "The Individual and Scholarly Networks" will explore two aspects of this phenomenon; firstly, how the connections are forming, and how attitudes may change to adapt to the new environment, and, secondly, how connections can be evaluated, nuanced and measured.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, January 22nd 2013 and will be webcast live from New York, Amsterdam and Oxford. It will be split into two segments:

Part 1: Building Networks | 8:00-10:00 EST / 13:00-15:00 GMT

This session will focus on the ways in which these relationships are formed and maintained, and how they are changing the nature of scholarly relationships.

Part 2: Evaluating Network Relationships | 10:30-12:30 EST / 15:30-17:30 GMT

Altmetrics is one of the most explosive areas of interest in bibliometric analysis and is increasing in importance. This session will explore the related areas of altmetrics, contributorship and the culture of reference.

SPEAKERS

Dr William Gunn, Head of Academic Outreach, Mendeley

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/william-gunn/

Professor Jeremy Frey, Head of Physical Chemistry, Southampton University

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~jgf/Frey/Home.html

Dr Heather Piwowar, Postdoc at Duke University, ImpactStory

http://www.researchremix.org/wordpress/

Gregg Gordon, President and CEO, Social Science Research Network

http://ssrn.com/

Dr Gudmundur Thorisson, Research Associate, University of Leicester

http://gthorisson.name/

Kelli Barr, Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Study of Interdisciplinarity, University of North Texas

http://www.csid.unt.edu/about/People/barr.html

SEATS ARE LIMITED > REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Link to A/V Available At

[http://www.researchtrends.com/virtualseminar/]

Comparison Report

How virtual science communities are transforming academic research

[http://elsevierconnect.com/how-virtual-science-communities-are-transforming-academic-research/]

Awareness, Attitudes and Participation of Teaching Staff Towards the Open Content Movement in One University / Peter Reed

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:53:00 +0000

Abstract

This research investigates the current awareness of, and participation in, the open content movement at one UK institution for higher education. The open content movement and the open educational resources can be seen as potential methods for reducing time and cost of technology-enhanced learning developments; however, its sustainability and, to some degree, its success are dependent on critical mass and large-scale participation. Teaching staff were invited to respond to a questionnaire. Respondents (n59) were open to the idea of sharing their own content and, similar to other studies, demonstrated existing practices of sharing resources locally amongst colleagues; however, there was little formal, large-scale sharing using suitable licenses. The data gathered concurs with other research suggesting a lack of awareness to the Creative Commons licenses as well as a lack of participation in large open educational resource repositories.
Keywords: open educational resources; staff attitudes; sustainability

(Published: 22 October 2012)

Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2012, 20: 18520

http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v20i0.18520

Source and Links to Full Text Available At

[http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/18520]

Visualizing Tweets Linking to a Paper

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:46:00 +0000

Martin Fenner / Posted: July 14, 2012

DNA Barcoding the Native Flowering Plants and Conifers of Wales has been one of the most popular new PLoS ONE papers in June. In the paper Natasha de Vere et al. describe a DNA barcode resource that covers the 1143 native Welsh flowering plants and conifers.

My new job as technical lead for the PLoS Article Level Metrics (ALM) project involves thinking about how we can best display the ALM collected for this and other papers. We want these ALM to tell us something important and/or interesting, and it doesn’t hurt if the information is displayed in a visually appealing way. There are many different ways this can be done, but here I want to focus on Twitter and CiteULike, the only two data sources where PLoS is currently storing every single event (tweet or CiteULike bookmark) with a date. Usage data (HTML and XML views, PDF downloads) are aggregated on a monthly basis, and PLoS doesn’t store the publication dates of citations.

We know from the work of Gunter Eysenbach and others that most tweets linking to scholarly papers are written in the first few days after publication. It therefore makes sense to display this information on a timeline covering the first 30 days after publication, and the tweets about the de Vere paper follow the same pattern.

[more]

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/2012/07/14/visualizing-tweets-linking-to-a-paper/]

altmetrics12 > An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:25:00 +0000

Evanston, IL • 21 June 2012

Keynotes (9:00-10:00)

Johann Bollen
Gregg Gordon

Coffee break (10:00-10:30)

Paper presentations (10:30-01:00)

Position and theory papers, 10min each (10:30-11:30)

Martin Fenner / Altmetrics will be taken personally at PLoS (presentation)
William Gunn and Jan Reichelt / Social metrics for research: quantity and quality (presentation)
Elizabeth Iorns / Reproducibility: an important altmetric
Britt Holbrook / Peer review, altmetrics, and ex ante broader impacts assessment – a proposal
Kelli Barr / The Role of altmetrics and Peer Review in the Democratization of Knowledge (chalkboard notes)

Empirical papers, 15min each (11:30-1:00)

Judit Bar-Ilan / JASIST@mendeley
Jasleen Kaur and Johan BollenStructural Patterns in Online Usage (presentation)
Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Staša Milojević, Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Mike Thelwall / Of caterpillars and butterflies: the life and afterlife of an arXiv e-print
Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar and Bradley Hemminger / Altmetrics in the Wild: Using Social Media to Explore Scholarly Impact (presentation)
Jennifer Lin / A Case Study in Anti-Gaming Mechanisms for Altmetrics: PLoS ALMs and DataTrust (presentation)
Richard Price / Altmetrics and Academia.edu

Lunches on your own (1:00-2:00p)

Demos (2:00-3:00p)

total-impact (Heather Piwowar)
altmetric.com (Euan Adie) (presentation)
PLoS ALM (Martin Fenner)
Ubiquity Press metrics (Brian Hole)
Plum Analytics (Andrea Michalek)
BioMed Central metrics (Ciaran O’Neill)
Academia.edu (Richard Price)
Knode (David Steinberg)
CASRAI (David Baker)
Mendeley and ReaderMeter (William Gunn)
Academia.edu (Richard Price)

Group discussion (3:00-4:30p)

We’ll split into small groups to discuss key altmetrics issues; topics may include:

Gaming: how might it happen, and how do we stop it?
Standards: We’ve got COUNTER for downloads; should there be standards for other altmetrics? What should they look like?
Visualization: There’s a lot of data. How should we display it?
Peer review: Could altmetrics replace traditional peer review? Should it? Can we build new publishing models around altmetrics?
CVs and “impact dashboards”: What does an altmetrics-informed CV look like? Who wants (and doesn’t want) one?
Publishers: What do publishers want from altmetrics services? How about readers and authors?
Normalization: How do we compare metrics from different fields or disciplines?

Group presentations and discussion (4:30-5:30p)

Summing up (5:30-6:00p)

Conclusion (Summarize key points from live and online discussion)

Open discussion: what’s the next year of altmetrics look like?

Dinners

Source and Presentation Links Available At

[http://altmetrics.org/altmetrics12/program/]

Slideshare > NISO Webinar: Beyond Publish or Perish: Alternative Metrics for Scholarship

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:53:00 +0000

November 14, 2012
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

[snip]

About the Webinar

Increasingly, many aspects of scholarly communication—particularly publication, research data, and peer review—undergo scrutiny by researchers and scholars. Many of these practitioners are engaging in a variety of ways with Alternative Metrics (#altmetrics in the Twitterverse). Alternative Metrics take many forms but often focus on efforts to move beyond proprietary bibliometrics and traditional forms of peer referencing in assessing the quality and scholarly impact of published work. Join NISO for a webinar that will present several emerging aspects of Alternative Metrics.

Source and Q&A and Slideshare Only Available At

[http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/nisowebinars/alternative_metrics/]

Reusing, Revising, Remixing and Redistributing Research

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:11:00 +0000

An OA Week guest post by Daniel Mietchen

The initial purpose of Open Access is to enable researchers to make use of information already known to science as part of the published literature. One way to do that systematically is to publish scientific works under open licenses, in particular the Creative Commons Attribution License that is compatible with the stipulations of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and used by many Open Access journals. It allows for any form of sharing of the materials by anyone for any purpose, provided that the original source and the licensing terms are shared alongside. This opens the door for the incorporation of materials from Open Access sources into a multitude of contexts both within and outside traditional academic publishing, including blogs and wikis.

Amongst the most active reusers of Open Access content are Wikimedia projects like the over 280 Wikipedia, Wikispecies and their shared media repository, Wikimedia Commons. In the following, a few examples of reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing Open Access materials in the context of Wikimedia projects shall be highlighted.

[more]

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/]

Slideshare > Current and Future Effects of Social Media-Based Metrics on Open Access and IRs

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:06:00 +0000

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/100668456/Current-and-Future-Effects-of-Social-Media-Based-Metrics-on-Open-Access-and-IRs]

The Power of Post Publication Review: A Case Study

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

There are many discussions and examples of post-publication review as an alternative to the currently more common peer-review model. While this comes up fairly regularly in my Twitter stream, I don’t think I’ve done more than hint at it within the blogposts here. I’ve also been watching (but neglecting to mention here) the emergence of data journalists and data journalism as a field, or perhaps perhaps I should say co-emergence, since it seems to be tightly coupled with shifts in the field of science communication and communicating risk to the public. Obviously, these all tie in tightly with the ethical constructs of informed consent and shared decisionmaking in healthcare (the phrase from the 1980s) which is now more often called participatory medicine.

That is quite a lot of jargon stuffed into one small paragraph. I could stuff it equally densely with citations to sources on these topics, definitions, and debates. Instead, for today, I’d like to give a brief overview of a case I’ve been privileged to observe unfolding over the weekend. If you want to see it directly, you’ll have to join the email list where this took place.

[more]

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/the-power-of-post-publication-review-a-case-study/]

Open Access and Its Impact on the Future of the University Librarian

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:51:00 +0000

We are shifting from content ownership by individual libraries to joint provision of services on a larger scale, says Stephen Barr

With the publication of the Finch report earlier this year and the UK government's announcement to commit £10m to help make research findings freely available, there has been a gear shift towards a more rapid movement into an open access world for the publishing of scholarly information.

While there has been a lot of discussion around what that shift means for academic publishers, and there is now a lively dialogue between researchers and scholars in different disciplines, there seems to have been less discussion of what this shift means for libraries and librarians. Yet the move towards open access is a profound change for the whole infrastructure of scholarly communication, and is bound to have impacts on the library as it does on other parts of the process.

[more]

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/oct/25/open-access-university-library-impact]

YouTube > Article-Level Metrics

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:26:00 +0000

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINHZhhKRs4]

Duration = ~ 21:00

YouTube > Alt Metrics -- A Funder's Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:21:00 +0000

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK_P-dm4QTw]

Duration = ~14:00 Minutes

From Bibliometrics to Altmetrics A Changing Scholarly Landscape

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:11:00 +0000

C&RL News > 73 (10) > November 2012 > Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt

When future Science Citation Index founder Eugene Garfield first came up with the idea of journal impact factor in 1955, it never occurred to him “that it would one day become the subject of widespread controversy.”

Today, techniques for measuring scholarly impact—traditionally known as bibliometrics —are well known for generating conflict and concern, particularly as tenure-track scholars reach beyond previously set boundaries of discipline, media, audience, and format. From the development of more nuanced academic specialties to the influence of blogs and social media, questions about the scope of scholarly impact abound, even as the pressure to measure such impact continues unabated or increases.

As faculty at universities around the world struggle to find new ways of providing evidence of their changing scholarly value, many librarians have stepped forward to help negotiate the landscape of both traditional impact metrics, such as h-index and journal impact factor, and emerging Web-based alternatives, sometimes called altmetrics, cybermetrics, or webometrics. With interest in online venues for scholarly communication on the rise, and the number of tools available for tracking online influence growing steadily, librarians are in a key position to take the lead in bolstering researchers’ knowledge of current trends—and concerns—in the new art and science impact measurement.

[more]

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/10/596.full]

Scholarly Metrics with a Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:52:00 +0000

I attended last week the PLOS workshop on Article Level Metrics (ALM). As a disclaimer, I am part of the PLOS ALM advisory Technical Working Group (not sure why :). Alternative article level metrics refer to any set of indicators that might be used to judge the value of a scientific work (or researcher or institution, etc). As a simple example, an article that is read more than average might correlate with scientific interest or popularity of the work. There are many interesting questions around ALMs, starting even with simplest - do we need any metrics ? The only clear observation is that more of the scientific process is captured online and measured so we should at least explore the uses of this information.

[more]

Source and Full Text and Links Available At

[http://pbeltrao.blogspot.com/2012/11/scholarly-metrics-with-heart.html]

Open Post-Publication Peer Review

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:18:00 +0000

Synopsis

Beyond open access, which is generally considered desirable, the essential drawbacks of the current system of scientific publishing are all connected to the particular way that peer review is used to evaluate papers. In particular, the current system suffers from a lack of quality and transparency of the peer review process, a lack of availability of evaluative information about papers to the public, and excessive costs incurred by a system, in which private publishers are the administrators of peer review. These problems can all be addressed by open post-publication peer review.

[more]

Source and Links To Full Text and Brief and Full Arguments Available At

[http://futureofscipub.wordpress.com/open-post-publication-peer-review/]

Beyond Open Access: Visions for Open Evaluation of Scientific Papers by Post-Publication Peer Review

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:10:00 +0000

[snip]

This Research Topic in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience collects visions for a future system of open evaluation. Because critical arguments about the current system abound, these papers will focus on constructive ideas and comprehensive designs for open evaluation systems. Design decisions include: Should the reviews and ratings be entirely transparent, or should some aspects be kept secret? Should other information, such as paper downloads be included in the evaluation? How can scientific objectivity be strengthened and political motivations weakened in the future system? Should the system include signed and authenticated reviews and ratings? Should the evaluation be an ongoing process, such that promising papers are more deeply evaluated? How can we bring science and statistics to the evaluation process (e.g. should rating averages come with error bars)? How should the evaluative information about each paper (e.g. peer ratings) be combined to prioritize the literature? Should different individuals and organizations be able to define their own evaluation formulae (e.g. weighting ratings according to different criteria)? How can we efficiently transition toward the future system?

[snip]

Source and Full Text and Articles Links Available At

[http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Beyond_open_access_visions_for/137]

Comment

[http://www.sciencecodex.com/does_science_need_open_evaluation_in_addition_to_open_access-102138]

The Digital Scholar: How Educators Can Be Part of the Digital Transformation / Martin Weller

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:50:00 +0000

Publication Date: 2011 / Pages: 256 /DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849666275

While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Digital, Networked and Open
Is the Revolution Justified?
Lessons from Other Sectors
The Nature of Scholarship
Researchers and New Technology
Interdisciplinarity and Permeable Boundaries
Public Engagement as Collateral Damage
A Pedagogy of Abundance
Openness in Education
Network Weather
Reward and Tenure
Publishing
The Medals of Our Defeats
Digital Resilience
References

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/view/DigitalScholar_9781849666275/book-ba-9781849666275.xml]

Review

[http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/the-digital-scholar-how-educators-can-be-part-of-the-digital-transformation/]

Article-level Metrics: Which Service to Choose?

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:40:00 +0000

26 Oct, 12 / Claire Bower, Digital Comms Manager

Article-level metrics (or ALMs) were a hot topic at this week’s HighWire publisher meeting in Washington. (Highwire hosts both the BMJ and its stable of 42 specialist journals). From SAGE to eLife, publishers seem sold on the benefits of displaying additional context to articles, thereby enabling readers to assess their impact. These statistics range from traditional indicators, such as usage statistics and citations, to alternative values (or altmetrics) like mentions on Twitter and in the mainstream media.

So, what services are available to bring this information together in one simple interface? There are quite a few contenders in this area, including Plum Analytics, PLoS Article-Level Metrics application, Science Card, CitedIn and ReaderMeter. One system in particular has received a good deal of attention in the past few weeks; ImpactStory, a relaunched version of total-impact. It’s a free, open-source webapp that’s been built with financial help from the Sloan Foundation (and others) “to help researchers uncover data-driven stories about their broader impacts”.

[more]

Source and Full Text Available At

[http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj-journals-development-blog/2012/10/26/article-level-metrics-which-service-to-choose/]

Scientists Seek New Credibility Outside of Established Journals

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:28:00 +0000

Altmetrics: An App Review > Stacy Konkiel

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:35:00 +0000

Keywords: altmetrics; bibliometrics

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14714

Date: 2012-10-07

Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Rights URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Type: Presentation

Abstract:

In a university culture increasingly influenced by metrics, academic libraries can use altmetrics to highlight scholarship’s hidden value. This session will cover the apps and services that can help faculty, administration, and librarians learn the full, true impact of research.

Description:

Presented at OCLC Innovation in Libraries post-conference event, LITA Forum 2012.

Source and Links Available At

[https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/14714]

YouTube Video

[http://bit.ly/U8xKEB]

Duration = ~23:30

COAR > Automated Downloading of Citation Data

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:20:00 +0000

Catalina Oyler, Five Colleges of Ohio Digital Initiatives Coordinator, developed, as a part of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant, a procedure for batch loading scholarly article citations (from Web of Science [etc.]/via Refworks) into a DSPACE scholarly article repository. This allowed Oberlin College to efficiently load large numbers of faculty citations for 2010 and 2011 as a means of growing the IR.

OhioLink > Documentation‎ > ‎Batch Submission from RefWorks

This process modifies the batch submission process to start with metadata in the form of RefWorks citations instead of an excel spreadsheet.

There are two different processes for going from Refworks to the DRC. The Refworks2DC process uploads the Refworks metadata without an associated bitstream. This process can be used to populate a collection with citations and links to DOIs or have bitstreams added later. The Refworks2DCbitsteam process uploads metadata as well as primary object bitstreams. Each attachment includes an instruction guide as well as the files needed for the transformation.

Source and Links Available At

[http://www.coar-repositories.org/working-groups/repository-content/preliminary-report-sustainable-best-practices-for-populating-repositories/4-automated-downloading-of-citation-data/]

Related

Process for Batch Uploads to Production Instance

[https://sites.google.com/a/ohiolink.edu/drmc/documentation/process-for-batch-uploads-to-production-instance]

SUNScholar/Audit > Ingest of Research Digital Assets and Metadata

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Section 6: Ingest

Ingest of research digital assets and metadata must be actively pursued and monitored using automatic and manual methods.

Source and Links Available

[http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Audit#Section_6:_Ingest]

PDF Permssions Google Docs Script YouTube Video

noreply@blogger.com (Gerry McKiernan) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:36:00 +0000

A demo of the early development stages of a script that will automate PDF permissions lookup in Sherpa Romeo

Stephen X. Flynn / Emerging Technologies Librarian / The College of Wooster/ Wooster, OH