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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">*Please excuse cross-posting*<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Finding Meaning in Metrics <span style="color:black">– an ALCTS
<a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/ig/ats-dgsch">Scholarly Communications Interest Group</a> and
<a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/crs/cmtes/ats-sersss">CRS Standards Committee</a> co-sponsored session</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Time: Saturday, June 25, 2016, 1:00-2:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Location: Orange County Convention Center, Room W102B, Orlando, Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.eventscribe.com/2016/ala-annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=143130">Scheduler link</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please join us for three presentations on
</span>the theme of research metrics and assessing impact:<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">1.
</span><span style="color:black">Scholarly Communication Librarians' Relationship with Research Impact Metrics</span><span style="color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:#333333;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Rachel Miles, Kansas State University Libraries, Digital Scholarship Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2. <span style="color:black">Measuring Towards Openness: Using Alternative Frameworks and Metrics to Better Assess and Discover Researchers and their Contributions</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Robin Champieux, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Library, Scholarly Communication Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>3. Why We Need to Think about New Metrics for Research Evaluation in the Age of Social Media<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Ehsan Mohammadi, PhD, Northwestern University, Post-doctoral Research Fellow,
<span style="color:black">Department of Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing">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
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:ilik.violeta@gmail.com">Violeta</a></span> and
<span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:anneliese.taylor@ucsf.edu">Anneliese</a></span> know if you’re interested!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Anneliese Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Assistant Director, Scholarly Communications & Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">University of California, San Francisco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><a href="mailto:anneliese.taylor@ucsf.edu">anneliese.taylor@ucsf.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Violeta Ilik<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Head, Digital Systems & Collection Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black;background:white"><a href="mailto:ilik.violeta@gmail.com">ilik.violeta@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Bonnie Parks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Chair, ALCTS CRS Standards Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Collections Technology Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas">University of Portland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="hdnemail"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas"><a href="mailto:parks@up.edu">parks@up.edu</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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