From: NISO <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:37:08 -0400

Following the close of the comment period for the NISO draft white
paper summarizing Phase I of its Alternative Assessment Metrics
(Altmetrics) Project, NISO is making available a survey inviting the
community to provide input as to what action items in the realm of
alternative assessment are most important for NISO to work on in its
upcoming Phase II.

The survey is available at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/niso-altmetrics.  All are invited to
provide input through August 29.

The NISO white paper, available at:

http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/13295/niso_altmetrics_white_paper_draft_v4.pdf

summarizes community input to development of potential standards and
recommended practices for research assessment metrics. The Initiative
was launched in July 2013, with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, to study, propose, and develop community-based standards
or recommended practices for alternative metrics. In Phase 1 of the
project, three in-person meetings were held and 30 in-person
interviews conducted to collect input from all relevant stakeholders,
including researchers, librarians, university administrators,
scientific research funders, and publishers. The draft white paper is
the summary of the findings from those meetings and interviews, along
with the identification of potential action items for further work in
Phase II of the project.

More than 250 ideas were generated by participants in the meetings and
interviews, and NISO condensed these to 25 action items in nine
categories: definitions, research outputs, discovery, research
evaluation, data quality and gaming, grouping and aggregation,
context, stakeholders’ perspectives, and adoption.

The NISO Altmetrics Project webpage
(www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative) provides links to
detailed output documents and recordings from each of the meetings and
related information resources.

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
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