Presented during the AAU Lupane DATAD Conference

1. 1
TIR Monitoring & Evaluation:
tracking usage & impact
Ina Smith
Presented during the Annual DATAD Conference, 24-26
August 2016, AAU & Lupane State University, Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe

2. Agenda
• Why & What is M&E?
• Bibliometrics/Alternative metrics/Item level
metrics/Article level metrics
• Tools

3. Why Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)?
• Management tool
• Informs strategic planning, direction
• Assist with performance evaluation: institutional,
departmental, individual
• Process that helps improve performance and achieve
results
• Goal: to improve current and future management of
resources, outputs, outcomes and impact
• Assess performance of IR

4. Evaluation
• Systematic & objective examination re the relevance,
effectiveness, efficiency and impact of activities in the
light of IR and OA objectives
• From evaluation provide recommendations
• Establish the return on investment

5. Monitoring
• Continuous assessment
• Aim: provide all stakeholders with early detailed
information on the progress or delay of the ongoing
assessed activities
• Determine if outputs, deliveries and schedules planned
have been reached so that action can be taken to correct
the deficiencies as quickly as possible

6. Bibliometrics
• Citation analysis & Publication analysis
• Statistical analysis of published scientific output (articles,
books and more)
• Analyse citations: number, disciplines, individuals, self-
citations etc.

7. Alternative metrics
• Altmetrics manifesto http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
• Article/item level metrics
• Assess use of item on item level
• Item = data set, video clip, article, thesis, image,
dissertation and more
• Look beyond counting and emphasize semantic content
like usernames, timestamps, and tag
Try It!

8. DSpace Statistics

9. DSpace Statistics

10. DSpace Statistics

11. DSpace Statistics

12. DSpace Statistics

13. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/32621/
Try It!

14. Add to your IR for free! Today!
https://www.altmetric.com/products/free-tools/institutional-repository-badges/

15. http://plumanalytics.com/plumx-leverages-dspace-communities-for-simple-integration/

16. https://plu.mx/uwa-au/a/-27uGJrEP7EwUSBQUnw0ofmo0navWCq__TX-
eUXJTE8/?display-tab=summary-content

17. http://facpubs.tourolib.org/publications/faculty/aruoma-okezie

18. http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/17829/
Try It!

19. Google Scholar Profile: Individual
Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors
to keep track of citations to their articles. An author can
check who is citing his/her publications, graph citations
over time, and compute several citation metrics. The
author can also make his/her profile public, so that it may
appear in Google Scholar results when people search for
the researcher name, e.g. robin crewe
Also create a Google Scholar Profile for your IR!

20. Google Scholar Profile: IR
Set up alerts for new
items addedto
profile, citations to
items in profile

21. https://impactstory.org/
Impactstory for individual researchers

22. http://v1.impactstory.org/CarlBoettiger

23. http://analytics.google.com
Google Analytics for IR

24. http://analytics.google.com
Piwik

25. SUNScholar Piwik

26. Activity
• Login with your Gmail account for your IR: gmail.com
• Go to
https://scholar.google.co.za/intl/en/scholar/citations.html
• Create a Google Scholar profile for your IR
• Add items to the profile to track
Try It!

27. Showcase stats, report on it …
Demo Only

28. Thank you!
Ina Smith
SciELO Planning Manager, ASSAf
ina@assaf.org.za