The study profiles the efforts of five universities from the USA, Canada and The Netherlands – to develop services in bibliometrics and altmetrics for faculty, students and staff. The five universities profiled are the University of Waterloo, Royal Roads University, Virginia Tech, East Tennessee State University and the University of Delft.
The highly detailed study profiles the day by day experiences of librarians in charge of or otherwise highly involved in bibliometrics and altmetrics efforts and looks at their promotion and assessment efforts and the tools that they subscribe to or have developed or plan to subscribe to or develop. Each profile presents a picture of how one or more librarians confront the day to day challenges of promoting the library’s bibliometric and altmetric services to faculty and the broader university community.
It relates the conferences and information resources that they have found most useful and how they have developed their own information workshops for faculty and staff. They give advice to their peers on how to assess faculty and student needs in bibliometrics/altmetrics, and how to best serve these current and expected future needs. The study also looks at how services for bibliometrics/altmetrics are being integrated into other services for research scholars, and how they are tailored to the needs of different departments and disciplines.
The report helps its readers to benchmark their own university efforts against those of peer universities in three different countries. It also details use of Plum Analytics, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Altmetrics.com, Scopus, SciVal, Pure, Altmetrics Explorer and many other tools in bibliometrics and altmetrics.
The report was written by Dr. Marlies Kirchner. Dr. Kirchner obtained her PhD in library and information science from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her dissertation dealt with data quality in citation analysis. She held research positions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, working on Europeana, at iFQ in Berlin, doing follow up research on her dissertation topic and at the Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, where she worked on researchers’ h-index sequences over time. She has published her research in various journals, including JASIST, and in pertinent conference proceedings.
Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
Glossary of Some Key Concepts and Organizations
Important concepts, tools and stakeholders in research assessment, bibliometrics and
altmetrics that were discussed in the interviews
National Research Assessment Exercises
Key players / stakeholders
Statement on the responsible use of metrics
Tools
University of Waterloo, Shannon Gordon
Brief Profile of the University of Waterloo
Job description and reporting lines in bibliometrics/altmetrics
A typical day for the Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian
Bibliometrics at the University of Waterloo in the Past, Prior to the Creation of a
Position for Bibliometrics/Altmetrics
The Evolution of Duties for the Bibliometrics/Altmetrics Librarian
Bibliometics/Altmetrics Infrastructure
Statement on Responsible Bibliometrics
Workflow, methods, purpose
Altmetric data
Community engagement
Challenges
Outlook
Royal Roads University, Devina Dandar
Profile of Royal Roads University
Job description and reporting lines
Typical day
Bibliometrics at Royal Roads in the past
Infrastructure
Statement on responsible metrics
Workflow and methods of altmetrics
Purpose of Altmetrics
Educational measures planned
Advice for other librarians for advocating altmetrics on campus
Challenges
Outlook
East Tennessee State University, Ashley Sergiadis
Brief Profile of East Tennessee State University
Job description and work responsibilities
Shift of duties
How was the bibliometrics effort organized in the past?
Infrastructure
Metrics from institutional repository
Identification of research collaborators on campus
Educational measures for faculty / students
Altmetric related research
Challenges in handling bibliometric / altmetric data
Outlook
Technical University Delft, Netherlands, Alenka Princic
Profile of the University
Tasks of Department of Research Support
Typical day
Shift of duties for Research Support
Organization of bibliometrics at the TU Delft Library
Infrastructure at the TU Delft Library
Statement on the responsible use of metrics
Methods and purpose of bibliometrics
How is altmetrics used at TU Delft?
Educational measures on bibliometrics
Encouragement of maintaining a scholarly online presence
Community engagement
Altmetrics conference
Challenges in everyday handling of altmetric data
Outlook
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Inga Haugen, Rachel Miles, Virginia
Pannabecker
Brief Profile of Virginia Tech & Research Support Staff
Management of Bibliometrics at Virginia Tech
Job description and role in bibliometrics, Agriculture, Life Science, and Scholarly
Communication Librarian
Job Description and Role, Director, Research Collaboration and Engagement
Job description, Research Impact Librarian
Statement on the responsible use of metrics
Infrastructure
Altmetric tools
Bibliometric reports and ad-hoc analyses
Educational measures on bibliometrics by the liaison librarian
Educational measures on bibliometrics by the Research Collaboration and
Engagement unit
Specific advice for other librarians to advocate for bibliometrics / altmetrics
The Biggest challenge in handling bibliometric data
Bibliometric related courses, conferences for librarians
Research on bibliometrics/altmetrics
Outlook on altmetrics
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