From: "Taylor, Anneliese" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 18:30:46 +0000

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Finding Meaning in Metrics - an ALCTS Scholarly Communications
Interest Group and CRS Standards Committee co-sponsored session

Time: Saturday, June 25, 2016, 1:00-2:30 pm

Location: Orange County Convention Center, Room W102B, Orlando, Florida

Scheduler: http://www.eventscribe.com/2016/ala-annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=143130

Please join us for three presentations on the theme of research
metrics and assessing impact:

1. Scholarly Communication Librarians' Relationship with Research Impact Metrics

Rachel Miles, Kansas State University Libraries, Digital Scholarship Librarian

As academia moves towards increasing concern with "real world"
research impact, new measures of impact like altmetrics offer a more
immediate picture of the broader impact of scholarship. Scholarly
communication is also evolving rapidly thanks to technological
advances, and with that change, questions arise surrounding the
efficacy of using usage statistics and traditional citation-based
metrics to understanding research impact. To understand the effect of
these changes upon academic librarians, a nationwide survey was
recently administered to over 13,000 academic librarians from
Carnegie-classified R1 institutions. This presentation will examine
differences in the awareness of various research impact metrics among
scholarly communication librarians and their practices pertaining to
using usage data and metrics for both job-related tasks and
professional advancement.

2. Measuring Towards Openness:  Using Alternative Frameworks and
Metrics to Better Assess and Discover Researchers and their
Contributions

Robin Champieux, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Library,
Scholarly Communication Librarian

Traditional metrics such as the Impact Factor and h-index do a poor
job of measuring and representing the quality, influence, and
contributions of research and researchers.  An over reliance on and
misuse of these metrics curtail the transition to a more open system
of science and scholarship.  This talk will explore the landscape of
initiatives that are working to address this issue.  Several case
studies will be highlighted to demonstrate how academic libraries and
librarians can affect awareness of and the successful adoption of
alternative and more inclusive frameworks for research and researcher
assessment and discovery.

3. Why We Need to Think about New Metrics for Research Evaluation in
the Age of Social Media

Ehsan Mohammadi, PhD, Northwestern University, Post-doctoral Research
Fellow, Department of Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical
Informatics

The evaluation of research publications is an important task for
universities, policy makers and funding organizations. Using citation
analysis, several indicators such as the Journal Impact Factor and the
h-index have been developed for evaluating research outputs. However,
citations have inherent limitations and citation-based indicators are
not able to capture some types of research impact. Therefore, new
metrics are needed to identify wider influence of research
publications.

This presentation discusses identifying and validating new metrics for
research assessment based on social web data. It focuses on Mendeley
readership as a particularly promising alt(ernative) metric. Using
large-scale quantitative and qualitative approaches, it is
demonstrated that Mendeley readership counts can (cautiously) be used
as complementary indicators to overcome some of the limitations of
citation data and thus provide evidence of broader research impacts.

We look forward to seeing you there! Want to help put together
scholarly communications sessions at ALA? The Scholarly Communications
Interest Group is seeking a new vice-chair. Let Violeta and Anneliese
know if you're interested!

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Anneliese Taylor
Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections
University of California, San Francisco
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Violeta Ilik
Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group
Head, Digital Systems & Collection Services
Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University
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Bonnie Parks
Chair, ALCTS CRS Standards Committee
Collections Technology Librarian
University of Portland
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