From: "Gold, Catherine (ELS-NYC)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:23:15 +0000

If you are attending ALA in Las Vegas, join us for the Innovation Panel:

"New Horizons in Evaluation Metrics for Scholarly Research"

Saturday, June 28th at 1:30-2:30pm

2:30-3:30pm Reception for panel attendees (immediately following the
presentation)

A panel of experts from the altmetrics community will share ideas
about emerging altmetrics projects and the significance of evaluation
metrics for the scholarly research community.

Featured speakers:

• Todd Carpenter, NISO

• Jean Liu, Altmetric.com

• Mike Taylor, Elsevier Labs

• Moderator: Eric Swenson (Scopus)

The speakers will discuss:

• Overall evaluation metrics landscape, including current providers,
types of data and sources, and the challenges of bringing sources
together.

• NISO's Alternative Assessment Metrics (Altmetrics) Project that
seeks to explore, identify and advance best practices related to a new
suite of potential metrics in the librarian-publisher-software
developer community.

• How librarians and repository managers can use article-level metrics
to showcase and track the impact of papers within a librarian's
institutional repository.

Location:

Las Vegas Convention Center
Elsevier booth #717

Session is free but RSVP is appreciated:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ALTMETRICSALAA

Catherine Gold
Director of Marketing, Research Solutions, North America
Elsevier
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