A more in-depth look at three tools supported by Digital Science: figshare, Altmetric, and Symplectic Elements.

1. a toolkit for
digital research
kaitlin thaney
@kaythaney ; @digitalsci
#cni13s, san antonio, tx

2. (0)
(a bit about who we are)

4. london
boston
new york
tokyo

7. (1)

8. T[citable, sharable, discoverable]
ext
figshare.com ; @figshare

10. 3 Gb/year

11. 9 Gb/PhD
3 Gb/year

12. 30,000,000 Gb/all*
9 Gb/PhD
3 Gb/year
* roughly

13. how much made available?
30,000,000 Gb/all*
9 Gb/PhD
3 Gb/year
* roughly

14. A cloud based research data
management system where you can:
Manage your research Make your research
outputs privately and outputs citable, sharable,
securely discoverable

16. capturing necessary context
(minimising burden)

20. Backed up in multiple
institutions around the world
DOIs provided by DataCite at
the California Digital Library
Adhere to ethics of academic
publishing, as per guidelines
ORCID launch partner, files to
be pushed to author profiles
All content hosted on AWS with
triple file storage, fast load times
and unbeatable uptime

21. formats accepted / visualised
Some of the formats we visualise
• csv
• f4v
• svg
• tsv
• m4a
• tif
• xls
• doc
• tiff
• xlsx
• docx
• gif
• ptt
• png
• ppt
• ods
• jpg
• pptx
• aac
• jpeg
• nex
• 3g2
• txt
• odt
• WebM
• bmp
• rtf
• mpeg4
• djvu
• pps
• 3gpp
• eps
• seq
• mov
• fa
• xml
• avi
• faa
• vaxml
• mpeg
• fasta
• tnt
• wmv
• ffn
• sxw
• flv
• frn
• zip
• mp3
• fna
• tar
• mp4
• pdf
• ...& more

22. desktop uploader
Desktop Uploader
the figshare desktop uploader allows
for quick and easy upload of your
research outputs, straight allowsyour
The figshare desktop uploader from
for quick and easy upload of your
desktop.outputs, straight from your many
research users can upload as
desktop. You can upload oncefiles atthe
files as they want at many and
once and the uploader supports
uploader supports resumable uploads
resumable uploads. This means if your
(so you’re safe if your connection
internet connection drops, you don t
need to start the drops).again.
uploads
allAll files areprivate space at private
files uploaded into your first, where
spacecan choose whether to make
you on figshare, where you can
chose whether to make them public or
manage themthem public.
privately.

23. easy data access (in/out)
via the API

24. figshare for Institutions
• Large amounts of secure private storage
space and unlimited public space.
• Detailed metrics on publicly available data.
• Ability to push research to any internal
repository.
• Subject categorisation per department.
• Collaborative spaces.
• Create your own institutional repo:
institution.figshare.com
• All data is citable, visualisable, embeddable
and trackable.
• Can be used securely by any number of
users.

29. (2)

30. rewards, incentives
the “social issue”

31. administrators / funders
as influencers
drivers of
behavioral change

32. existing system is imperfect
we can/need to do better.

33. time, breadth,
comprehensiveness
Citations Altmetrics
Slow to accrue (> 1yr) Quick to accrue (hours)
Low volume High volume
Impact amongst authors Impact anywhere

34. <quick bit of history>

35. altmetrics
Alternative metrics
Alternative to only looking at citations (complement
to, not replacement for bibliometrics)
Manifesto (by Priem, Neylon, Groth, Taborelli) at
altmetrics.org - we didn’t coin the phrase

36. altmetric
(london startup)
altmetric.com ; @altmetric

37. right now...
“Altmetrics” generally refers to tracking online
attention (esp. social media) data to try and get
an idea of the wider impact of scholarly
research.

38. altmetrics tools

39. Altmetric.com

40. beyond the ivory tower

41. unified view, use
lowest common denominator

42. make it easy to understand

43. data is made available through
an API
http://api.altmetric.com/v1/doi/xxx
http://api.altmetric.com/v1/citations/1w?cited_in=linkedin
http://api.altmetric.com/v1/citations/1w?issns=1098-4275

44. the business model question ...
use by institutional repositories is free. Explorer accounts also free for
academic librarians to use however they wish.
we charge commercial publishers for more detailed data and sell site
license access to the Explorer app.

45. why should I use altmetrics, and
what for?

46. use data for discovery / analysis

52. let authors see who is
discussing their work

53. City University London

54. for readers

55. (3)

56. http://www.symplectic.co.uk
@symplectic_US ; @symplectic_UK

58. automatically
acquire,
de-dupe,
disambiguate

59. available for repository deposit?

62. coauthorship, insights

63. integrations to add context

64. repurpose and reuse data,
increase visibility
interoperability is key
encourage best practice at
the university

65. questions?

66. more at
digital-science.com/products
kaitlin@digital-science.com
@kaythaney