This document discusses how libraries can empower scholars and scholarly communication through altmetrics. It notes that traditional research evaluation focuses too much on impact factor and that altmetrics provide additional ways to measure impact, including social media mentions, citations in policy documents or Wikipedia. The document recommends that libraries can help by raising expectations of diverse metrics, advocating for their use in evaluation, and supporting altmetrics tools. This would help move evaluations away from a single-dimensional system and capture different types of research impact.

1. How libraries can
empower scholars
(and scholarly communication)
through altmetrics
Heather
Piwowar
@researchremix
ImpactStory
some photos NC, SA
#alamw13

2. Research evaluation
matters

3. who gets hired
who gets grants
who gets a career in academia

4. where we publish
which journals succeed
which journal innovations succeed
whether we publish in journals at all
the whole structure of scientific communication

5. We have a problem.

7. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/euwf/ho_24.45.1.htm

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsmjr/62443357/

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/camilleharrington/3587294608/

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkuhnau/3318245976/

11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/conformpdx/1796399674/

12. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkuhnau/3317418699/

13. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zemlinki/261617721/

14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracenmatt/3020786491/

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-o/2078239333/

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/huzzahvintage/4577075021/

23. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunrise/35819369/

25. what if, instead...

26. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixscapes/4331070047!

31. from a
1-dimensional
evaluation system

32. to impact flavours
CC-BY-NC by maniacyak on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maniacyak/3432589472

39. open!

42. http://www.flickr.com/photos/europedistrict/5692787622/

43. how can libraries help?

44. 1. raise our expectations

45. http://www.flickr.com/photos/davemurr/4592014327/

46. http://www.flickr.com/photos/myklroventine/892446624/

47. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/2055471833

49. 2. raise our voices

50. a) educate that tools exist
- admin
- researchers

51. There’s
more
to
impact
than
impact
factor.
Who’s
tweeting
about
your
research?
Have
you
been
cited
on
Wikipedia?
Come
find
out!

52. Altmetric.com
PLOS ALM
Plum Analytics
Reader Meter
Science Card

53. Open metrics, with context, for diverse products.!
Board:
Cameron Neylon
John Wilbanks

54. b) value diverse metrics in
our own field.
On grant review committees,
journal boards, etc.

55. 1. raise our expectations
2. raise our voices

56. 3. raise our glasses

57. a) within our own depts

58. b) on our campuses
innovative dissemination
awards

59. c) by supporting the tools
you believe in.

60. 1. raise our expectations
2. raise our voices
3. raise our glasses

61. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joellevand/279468607/

62. http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersam5/216868485/

63. thank you!
Jason Priem: cofounder of ImpactStory
Also: Todd Vision, Mike Whitlock, the open science community, and
those who release their articles, datasets and photos openly.
blog.ImpactStory.org
team@ImpactStory.org
@ImpactStory
ImpactStory.org