Register Now for NISO's Virtual Event, December 13, Advancing Altmetrics

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 NISO Virtual Conference

Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 11:00am – 5:00pm

Advancing Altmetrics: Best Practices and Emerging Ideas

 

This is an active area for a variety of reasons. There is an ongoing need to justify the work, space and resources invested in the library. How best to appropriately generate, synthesize, interpret, and deliver the most useful data to demonstrate the return on investment made by the institution is a pressing concern. What do we know to be best practices for using altmetrics in assessment? How comfortable are faculty with the use of altmetrics in the context of tenure and promotion activities?  

 

NISO’s related working group has built a better understanding of use cases for existing altmetrics, but already there are discussions on whether new metrics might be usefully framed for measuring research impact outside of the academic environment or for capturing the value of unconventional outputs of research.

 

Will views and downloads usage indicators be sufficient to evaluate the usefulness of data sets? What examples might be provided by studies of COUNTER, SUSHI, and SUSHI Lite? What alternative approaches might be needed or fostered in order to ensure the discoverability, usability, and reproducibility of scientific data sets?

 

Speakers:

·      The Ghost of Altmetrics Yet to Come

Mike Taylor, Head of Metric Development, Digital Science

 

·      Lessons from the humanities and social sciences: exploring values-based altmetrics

Stacy Konkiel, Director of Research and Education, Altmetric

 

·      Designing metrics that serve academia

William Gunn, Director of Academic Outreach, Mendeley

 

·      Building New Faculty Services: Altmetric Adoption

Andy Herzog, Faculty Services and Online Engagement, Department Head, University of Texas at Arlington; 

 

·      Telling Your Science Story: Using Alternative Metrics to Showcase Impact

Patty Smith, Impact and Dissemination Librarian, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University

 

·      Make Data Count

Daniella Lowenberg, Research Data Specialist & Product Manager, California Digital Library

 

·      Metrics and Altmetrics in the Administration of Higher Ed

Darby Orcutt, Assistant Head, Collections & Research Strategy, North Carolina State University

 

·      Future Directions

Martha Kyrillidou, PhD., Principal, QualityMetrics, LLC

 

For a more in-depth look at the day’s agenda and additional details, please visit the NISO event page.

 

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