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 [log in to unmask]