This document summarizes efforts by Wageningen University Library to improve relations with staff and students. The library provides information literacy training integrated into coursework and specialized training for PhD students and researchers. For research evaluations, the library conducts bibliometric analyses of publications to assess productivity and research quality. This involves normalization of citation counts and calculation of citation metrics. The library matches publications to the Web of Science to improve its repository and provide bibliometric consultations and advice to researchers.
The Kaleidoscope of Impact: same data, different perspectives, constantly cha...Kudos
Scholars, scientists, academic institutions, publishers and funders are all interested in impact. We have different roles and goals, and therefore different reasons for needing to understand impact; we are therefore asking different questions about impact, and those questions continue to evolve, much as the concept of impact itself is evolving. To answer our different questions, do we need different data, in separate silos, or are we looking at the same data, from different angles? This session gathered researcher, library, publisher and metrics provider perspectives to consider who has an interest in impact, what data they are interested in, how they use it, and how the situation is evolving as e.g. business models and technical infrastructures shift.
Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation and Usage Data for Contextual C...NASIG
Libraries have long sought to demonstrate the value of their collections through a variety of usage statistics. Traditionally, a strong emphasis is placed on high usage statistics when evaluating journals in collection development discussions. However, as budget pressures persist, administrators are increasingly concerned with looking beyond traditional usage metrics to determine the real impact of library services and collections. By examining journal usage in the context of scholarly communication, we hope to gain a more holistic understanding of the use and impact of our library’s resources. In this session, we begin by outlining our methodology for gathering comprehensive publication and citation data for authors affiliated with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, utilizing Web of Science as our primary data source and leveraging a custom Python script to manage the data. Using this data we discuss various potential metrics that could be employed to measure and evaluate journals in institutional and field-specific contexts, including but not limited to: number of publications and references per journal, co-citation networks, percentage of references per journal, and increases or decreases of references over time per title. We then consider the development of normalized benchmarks and criteria for creating field-specific core journal lists. We also discuss a process for establishing usage thresholds to evaluate existing journal subscriptions and to highlight potential gaps in the collection. Finally, we apply and compare these metrics to traditional collection development tools like COUNTER usage reports, cost-per-use analysis, Inter-Library Loan statistics and turnaway reports, to determine what correlations or discrepancies might exist. We finish by highlighting some use-cases which demonstrate the value of considering publication and citation metrics, and provide suggestions for incorporating these metrics into library collection development practices.
Speakers: Joelen Pastva and Jonathan Shank, Northwestern University
Project GitHub page: https://goo.gl/2C2Pcy
Promoting Open Access and Open Educational Resources to FacultyNASIG
Heather Crozier, presenter
Student debt is a compelling issue and many institutions are investigating solutions to ease the financial burdens of their students. Increasing the use of open educational resources benefits students by reducing course costs. Adopting OER in the classroom allows faculty more freedom in choosing instructional tools. Faculty also benefit from open access publishing by increasing their exposure. However, on the campus of a small, private institution, attendance at workshops to spread awareness and increase the use of these materials was minimal. Faculty had the perception that free resources could not be the same quality as traditional resources. In order to dispel this myth, the Electronic Resources Librarian and Educational Technology Manager collaborated to create custom one hour sessions for individual departments, leveraging library/faculty liaison relationships and the expertise of the office of educational technology. In the session, faculty learn more about open access publishing options, the value of open educational resources, the quality of many open educational resources, and where to find these resources. The session uses the course management system to both disseminate the information shared in the session and create a forum for departments to share resources with each other. Through the CMS, faculty gain access to vetted resources. All attendants have editing privileges within the site after the workshop, allowing them to curate course-specific lists for sharing and future reference. Pilot sessions have been well received and wider implementation is planned for the next academic year.
The Kaleidoscope of Impact: same data, different perspectives, constantly cha...Kudos
Scholars, scientists, academic institutions, publishers and funders are all interested in impact. We have different roles and goals, and therefore different reasons for needing to understand impact; we are therefore asking different questions about impact, and those questions continue to evolve, much as the concept of impact itself is evolving. To answer our different questions, do we need different data, in separate silos, or are we looking at the same data, from different angles? This session gathered researcher, library, publisher and metrics provider perspectives to consider who has an interest in impact, what data they are interested in, how they use it, and how the situation is evolving as e.g. business models and technical infrastructures shift.
Capturing and Analyzing Publication, Citation and Usage Data for Contextual C...NASIG
Libraries have long sought to demonstrate the value of their collections through a variety of usage statistics. Traditionally, a strong emphasis is placed on high usage statistics when evaluating journals in collection development discussions. However, as budget pressures persist, administrators are increasingly concerned with looking beyond traditional usage metrics to determine the real impact of library services and collections. By examining journal usage in the context of scholarly communication, we hope to gain a more holistic understanding of the use and impact of our library’s resources. In this session, we begin by outlining our methodology for gathering comprehensive publication and citation data for authors affiliated with Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, utilizing Web of Science as our primary data source and leveraging a custom Python script to manage the data. Using this data we discuss various potential metrics that could be employed to measure and evaluate journals in institutional and field-specific contexts, including but not limited to: number of publications and references per journal, co-citation networks, percentage of references per journal, and increases or decreases of references over time per title. We then consider the development of normalized benchmarks and criteria for creating field-specific core journal lists. We also discuss a process for establishing usage thresholds to evaluate existing journal subscriptions and to highlight potential gaps in the collection. Finally, we apply and compare these metrics to traditional collection development tools like COUNTER usage reports, cost-per-use analysis, Inter-Library Loan statistics and turnaway reports, to determine what correlations or discrepancies might exist. We finish by highlighting some use-cases which demonstrate the value of considering publication and citation metrics, and provide suggestions for incorporating these metrics into library collection development practices.
Speakers: Joelen Pastva and Jonathan Shank, Northwestern University
Project GitHub page: https://goo.gl/2C2Pcy
Promoting Open Access and Open Educational Resources to FacultyNASIG
Heather Crozier, presenter
Student debt is a compelling issue and many institutions are investigating solutions to ease the financial burdens of their students. Increasing the use of open educational resources benefits students by reducing course costs. Adopting OER in the classroom allows faculty more freedom in choosing instructional tools. Faculty also benefit from open access publishing by increasing their exposure. However, on the campus of a small, private institution, attendance at workshops to spread awareness and increase the use of these materials was minimal. Faculty had the perception that free resources could not be the same quality as traditional resources. In order to dispel this myth, the Electronic Resources Librarian and Educational Technology Manager collaborated to create custom one hour sessions for individual departments, leveraging library/faculty liaison relationships and the expertise of the office of educational technology. In the session, faculty learn more about open access publishing options, the value of open educational resources, the quality of many open educational resources, and where to find these resources. The session uses the course management system to both disseminate the information shared in the session and create a forum for departments to share resources with each other. Through the CMS, faculty gain access to vetted resources. All attendants have editing privileges within the site after the workshop, allowing them to curate course-specific lists for sharing and future reference. Pilot sessions have been well received and wider implementation is planned for the next academic year.
Title: Promoting scholarly publishing through libraries
Author: Jukka Englund
Affiliation: Terkko - National Library of Health Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
Links:
National Library of Health Sciences - Terkko (Finland)
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/english/
EAHIL 2008 Scientific programme
https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/EAHILScientificProgramme/Home
This presentation was provided by Steven Braun of Northeastern University Libraries during the NISO webinar, Using Analytics to Extract Value from the Library's Data, held on September 12, 2018.
This presentation was provided by Rachel Lewellen of Harvard University during the NISO Webinar, Using Analytics to Extract Value from the Library's Data, Part Two, held on September 19, 2018.
Poster Presentation for 4:am Altmetrics Conference, Toronto ON, CA and National Institutes of Health Bibliometrics and Assessment Conference, Bethesda MD, US
This presentation was provided by Sarah Young of Cornell University during a NISO webinar on the topic of Compliance With Funder mandates, held on September 14, 2016.
Presentation for the Narma Workshop: An introduction to metrics and their use - turning data into intelligence. http://narma.no/narma-kurs/workshop-an-introduction-to-metrics-and-their-use-turning-data-into-intelligence/
How Much do Availability Studies Increase Full Text Success?Sanjeet Mann
Availability Studies are a systems research technique that academic libraries can use to identify errors affecting access to electronic resources. Comparing two availability studies conducted before and after troubleshooting showed a statistically significant decrease in errors from 38% to 13%.
Bibliometrische visualisaties voor het bijhouden van wetenschappelijke litera...Nees Jan van Eck
Het is van essentieel belang dat onderzoekers een actueel overzicht hebben van de literatuur in hun onderzoeksveld. Gegeven het enorme aantal publicaties dat wekelijks in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften verschijnt kan het bijhouden van alle relevante literatuur en het verkrijgen van een goed overzicht van een onderzoeksveld echter een uitdaging zijn en veel tijd kosten. Bibliometrische visualisaties ondersteunen deze taak. Dit soort visualisaties bieden een intuïtief overzicht van de relevante literatuur in een onderzoeksveld. Zo kunnen onderzoekers een beter inzicht krijgen in de structuur en de ontwikkeling van een veld en een indruk krijgen van de belangrijkste bijdragen in het veld.
This presentation provides an analysis of services provided by the benchmarked library websites. The exploratory study includes comparison of these websites against a list of criterion and presents a list of services that are most commonly deployed by the selected websites. In addition to that, the investigators proposed a list of services that could be provided via the KAUST library website.
What ARE we thinking? Collections decisions in an Academic LibraryLinda Galloway
When faced with multiple competing priorities for investment in library resources, there are many important aspects to consider. From student enrollment to prominence of programs, there are both data-driven and intangible factors to weigh. In addition, most library collections now focus on the immediate needs of students and researchers instead of collecting for posterity. This just-in-time versus just-in-case collection development mindset prioritizes different resource attributes and requires an often unfamiliar level of acquisitions flexibility.
Research evaluation: is it our business?: Librarians in the brave new world of research evaluation by Andria McGrath, Senior Information Specialist, Research Support, King’s College London. Presentation at the Research Evaluation: Is It Our Business? The Role of Librarians in the Brave New World of Research Evaluation 29 June 2011, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus.
Title: Promoting scholarly publishing through libraries
Author: Jukka Englund
Affiliation: Terkko - National Library of Health Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
Links:
National Library of Health Sciences - Terkko (Finland)
http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/english/
EAHIL 2008 Scientific programme
https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/EAHILScientificProgramme/Home
This presentation was provided by Steven Braun of Northeastern University Libraries during the NISO webinar, Using Analytics to Extract Value from the Library's Data, held on September 12, 2018.
This presentation was provided by Rachel Lewellen of Harvard University during the NISO Webinar, Using Analytics to Extract Value from the Library's Data, Part Two, held on September 19, 2018.
Poster Presentation for 4:am Altmetrics Conference, Toronto ON, CA and National Institutes of Health Bibliometrics and Assessment Conference, Bethesda MD, US
This presentation was provided by Sarah Young of Cornell University during a NISO webinar on the topic of Compliance With Funder mandates, held on September 14, 2016.
Presentation for the Narma Workshop: An introduction to metrics and their use - turning data into intelligence. http://narma.no/narma-kurs/workshop-an-introduction-to-metrics-and-their-use-turning-data-into-intelligence/
How Much do Availability Studies Increase Full Text Success?Sanjeet Mann
Availability Studies are a systems research technique that academic libraries can use to identify errors affecting access to electronic resources. Comparing two availability studies conducted before and after troubleshooting showed a statistically significant decrease in errors from 38% to 13%.
Bibliometrische visualisaties voor het bijhouden van wetenschappelijke litera...Nees Jan van Eck
Het is van essentieel belang dat onderzoekers een actueel overzicht hebben van de literatuur in hun onderzoeksveld. Gegeven het enorme aantal publicaties dat wekelijks in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften verschijnt kan het bijhouden van alle relevante literatuur en het verkrijgen van een goed overzicht van een onderzoeksveld echter een uitdaging zijn en veel tijd kosten. Bibliometrische visualisaties ondersteunen deze taak. Dit soort visualisaties bieden een intuïtief overzicht van de relevante literatuur in een onderzoeksveld. Zo kunnen onderzoekers een beter inzicht krijgen in de structuur en de ontwikkeling van een veld en een indruk krijgen van de belangrijkste bijdragen in het veld.
This presentation provides an analysis of services provided by the benchmarked library websites. The exploratory study includes comparison of these websites against a list of criterion and presents a list of services that are most commonly deployed by the selected websites. In addition to that, the investigators proposed a list of services that could be provided via the KAUST library website.
What ARE we thinking? Collections decisions in an Academic LibraryLinda Galloway
When faced with multiple competing priorities for investment in library resources, there are many important aspects to consider. From student enrollment to prominence of programs, there are both data-driven and intangible factors to weigh. In addition, most library collections now focus on the immediate needs of students and researchers instead of collecting for posterity. This just-in-time versus just-in-case collection development mindset prioritizes different resource attributes and requires an often unfamiliar level of acquisitions flexibility.
Research evaluation: is it our business?: Librarians in the brave new world of research evaluation by Andria McGrath, Senior Information Specialist, Research Support, King’s College London. Presentation at the Research Evaluation: Is It Our Business? The Role of Librarians in the Brave New World of Research Evaluation 29 June 2011, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus.
Student recruitment strategies for the new ageUCAS Media
Ten years ago student recruitment was simply about school visits, open days and a big paper prospectus. This presentation shares recruitment strategies for the new age.
Prof. Salvacion M. Arlante, university librarian of the University of the Philippines Diliman, presented the challenges for librarians in the acquisitions of quality academic journals during C&E's Academic Publishing Forum on January 26, 2011 at C&E Information and Resource Center, Quezon City.
e-Books: Putting Librarians And Researchers 'In The Know'tulipbiru64
Slide presentation presented by Elsevier B.V. at the 4th PERPUN International Conference 2015: Information Revolution, 11-12th August 2015 at Avillion Legacy Hotel, Melaka.
Working Together evolving library value: initial findingsSAGE Publishing
‘Working together: evolving value for academic libraries’ is a six-month research project investigating the value of academic libraries for teaching and research staff. SAGE commissioned LISU to undertake the research in December 2011. Now halfway through the project, two UK case studies are complete, and those in US and Scandinavia are underway.
Some initial results have been compiled into a short presentation to coincide with the UKSG conference.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
Bibliometric analyses on repository contents for the evaluation of research a...marco.vanveller
Since the last two decennia, Wageningen UR Library has been involved in bibliometric analyses for the evaluation of scientific output of staff, chair groups and research institutes of Wageningen UR. In these advanced bibliometric analyses several indicator scores, such as the number of publications, number of citations and citation impacts, are calculated. For a fair comparison of scientific output from staff, chair groups or research institutes (that each work in a different scientific discipline with specific publication and citation habits) scores of the measured bibliometric indicators are normalized against average trend (or baseline) scores per research field. For the collection of scientific output that is subjected to the bibliometric analyses the repository Wageningen Yield (WaY) is used. This repository is filled from the research registration system Metis in which meta data for scientific output is registered by the secretaries of the research groups of Wageningen UR. By the application of a connection between the meta data of publications in WaY and citation scores in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, custom-made analyses on the scientific output and citation impact of specific entities from Wageningen UR can be performed fast and efficiently. Moreover, a timely registration of new scientific output is stimulated (to ensure their inclusion in future bibliometric analyses) and the quality of meta data in WaY is checked by the library staff and by the research staff from the research entities under investigation, thus promoting communication between the library and customers.
Presentation by Tito Sierra at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA.
The Smart Subjects tool attempts to increase broader user discovery of relevant library resources by serendipitously recommending library subjects related to a user's search query. The prototype tool uses large locally created subject indexes consisting of rich topical keyword content harvested from local sources. An OpenSearch interface allows this recommendation service to be integrated flexibly and easily in a variety of web applications.
Sinds de publicatie van het “Altmetrics manifesto” door Jason Priem en de zijnen heeft dit onderwerp een grote vlucht genomen. In het huidige bibliometrics landschap krijgt het onderzoek naar andere mogelijkheden om impact van publicaties en onderzoek te meten een prominente plaats. Tegenwoordig willen onderzoekers niet alleen maar beoordeeld worden op basis van Impact Factoren en versterken zij de roep om alternatieve methoden om impact te beoordelen. In het kader van onderzoeksondersteuning kunnen bibliotheken in dit domein een nieuwe en belangrijke rol spelen. In deze sessie worden de ontwikkelingen tegen het licht gehouden en sterke en zwakke punten blootgelegd. Tijdens de workshop wordt ingegaan op de verschillende indicatoren voor het bepalen van de impact van tijdschriften, artikelen, onderzoeksgroepen en onderzoekers. Tools, methoden en het laatste onderzoek komen aan bod.
The starting point of my presentation is that you have carried out the most valuable, relevant and exciting research. This presentation is to point out to you some publishing tips that should be part of your publishing strategy. My goal is to make you think about a publication strategy. Your publication strategy. And assure that your research finds the best possible publication venue and is presented in the most optimal way.
Same presentation as the presentation for Ghent University, this time for an audience of Russian editors in St. Petersburg “WORLD-CLASS SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION - 2015: CURRENT WORLD TRENDS AND PRACTICE IN EDITING, PUBLISHING AND SSESSMENT OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS” 26-29 May 2015, “AZIMUT” HOTEL, St. Petersburg
The format for the data management plans for PhD students at Wagenigen UR explained. This format was developed by the library in cooperation with the Wageningen Graduate Schools.
34. Matching our Repository and WoS WoS 9577 articles & reviews Repository 10933 p.r. articles Missing in repository, 807 articles Missing from WoS, 1159 articles 1161 peer reviewed articles not in WoS journals
35. Is this the only thing you do with the repository? Repository Univ. white pages Dept. pages Pers. pages Peer review Research administration system Project administration system
In the first place I have to thank the organizers of this congress for the trust they have put into me, the opportunity they have given us to present to you what we think is unique library role we have carved out as a library in the research cycle at our Uiversity. Before I really start. I should point out that this presentation is/ or will be available at my slideshare space, and I will blog about this congress and presentation at my English blog at wowter.net. So there is no need to take notes. Please listen.
Perhaps I should introduce myself a little bit further. In the first place I am an information specialist at the Wageningen University and Research Centre Library. Information specialist or subject library in the plant sciences. In the library, apart from the classical subject librarian tasks, I am heavily involved in research evaluation and library 2.0 developments and applications. On the library 2.0 front I also active as a teacher and blogger on various platforms. As a result of that I was selcted as Information Professional of the year 2007 by my Dutch Colleagues. To my own astonishment Péter Jácso selected my English blog as one of Péter’s pick in his online column in the July/August issue of the Online Magazine earlier this year.
So far for the formal introduction. Perhaps it is more insightful to have a look at the cloud tag of my English blog. Apart from the ELAG congress (European Library Automation Group) which was hosted by our library in 2008 tag. The tags for Open Access, Impact Factors, Scopus, Web of Science and University rankings stand out. They take most of my blogging passion. But please have a look at my blog, later at you own leisure.
When you look at the cloudtag of my delicious account another professional passion shows up, next to a number of conferences. Web 2.0 and library 2.0.
So far about my passions. I have come here as a representative of Wageningen UR library to tell you about they ways we have improved the relations between students and staff and the library. Here you have a picture of the Wageningen Campus. The large, square reddish building at the left is actually the building in which the library is housed. It was opened in 2007. So it is actually quite a new library.
A very brief history of our University and Research Centre is as follows: Established as an agricultural college in 1876, and ratified as an institute for higher education in 1918 Various research institutes were established for the daily routine tasks (quality of milk, seeds, fertilizers etc…) these resorted directly under the jurisdiction of the ministry of agriculture and fisheries In the late 1980's research institutes became independent from the ministry of Agriculture In 1998 Wageningen University, the research institutes merged to form Wageningen University and Research Centre In 2003 Wageningen University merges with the university of applied sciences. To improve growth of MSc students after te introduction of the Anglo-Saxon Bachelor/Master structure in hihgher education in the Netherlands Why this long story on the history of the university? It is to explain the rather exceptional composition of the student/staff ratio's
The essence of this slide is that we are a small University. But a special one. Just over 5,500 students. The FTE of all staff is slightly less than half the number of students. As a library we are responsible for the information infrastructure for the research institutes as well. They employ a similar number of staff. The polytechnic university has an entirely different ratio of staff to students. At this moment we have less involvement with the polytechnic, but that’s likely to change in the long run.
Interesting characteristic of our University is it’s highly international orientation. This is for instance shown in the number of international students. In the BSc the percentage of international students amounted on 4%, but in the MSc approximately 46% of the students (987) have a non-Dutch nationality. In Wageningen, a village with about 33,000 inhabitants, these numbers stand out quite remarkably. Over 100 different nationalities are represented in Wageningen.
Wageningen University used to be an agricultural university but has now a life sciences focus. To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’ That is the mission of Wageningen UR Issues within the Wageningen domain are almost never exclusively natural, technical or social in nature. There are always multiple approaches and possible solutions – often synergetic ones. Wageningen UR therefore fosters the unique interaction between the natural and social sciences The university has a strong profile in the Agricultural & Food Sciences, Environment & Ecology and Plant & Animal Science. With top 10 positions in these fields according to the Essential Science Indicators. According to the international Taiwan ranking, Wageningen is the second best university in the field of agriculture just after the University of California Davis.
A view into our library. Probably sometime in the exam period when it is really busy in the search for a little bit of tranquility.
In 2003 it was decided to establish a central library plus a library for the social sciences department. A central library was to be built as part of new education building that was aimed to host all teaching activities, restaurant facilities and the library. Three functions combined, centrally located at the Wageningen Campus . The new library is operation for two years now. Open for some 90 hours per week. Next to that we have a few satellite libraries in the country that are part of local research stations. Physical library is primarily a place to study for our MSc students. The library is regarded as a tranquil space in a busy building. Innovative Catalog and own article and indexing databases are supported by an in-house developed CMS. Next year introduction of lucene as search engine on these databases. Flexible and versatile, but sometimes it small changes take a long period of time due to the workload of the ICT department. Integration of Web 2.0 posibilities whenever possible. Comments, RSS feeds, TOC inclusions. Information junkies Despite being one of the smallest Dutch universities, the second highest number of downloaded articles from platforms such as SD and Springer. We have been focusing our attention on the digital services from early days. It started with A&I databases, follwowed by electronic journals, and currently we are working hard on electronic book collections and implementation of e-readers. The more successful we are the fewer we see Staff in the library. They visit the library from their desktop 24*7 from anywhere in the world.
In no particular order. External clients an important group on which I will not discuss any further in this keynote. But we do very relevant work for the Ministery of Agriculture in the field of knowledge dissemination.
The courses we run especially geared towards PhD-Students are very valuable to the library as well. In the introductory course we teach standard information literacy basics and extend this with courses on publishing, plagiarism and bibliometrics The consultation session is particularly valuable for the library and students alike. We start with an intake interview in which the students' PhD proposal is the starting point of the conversation. We give advice on database selection and search strategy. The student works out various search strategies, based on our tips and advice, and starts SDI alerts for these searches. After about a month we discuss the results from these alerts, sharpen and adjust the strategies together with the PhD candidate. A much appreciated advice for Sandwich PhD's (PhD students that perform the mainstay of their work in their country of origin, and are thus a long haul from the university) is to make an alert for the affiliation of their research department, so they keep informed on the latest published research from their supervisors. These sessions are valuable to the library since we are closely involved with the fresh research project at the heart of our university. We learn in which direction the research at the university is heading.
As indicated earlier, our users are characterized as heavy duty users. We have a disproportionate share of downloaded articles from all academic libraries in the Netherlands. However, they are little or subconsciously aware of the services and possibilities offered by the library. We have to show them libraries are still relevant. We have to find opportunities to tell them stories from the library. In our case we have been quite successful at creating a important role in the regular research evaluation process that takes place throughout the university and research institutes at regular intervals. We started this years ago on a small scale, and over the years we have gained the confidence and trust of our researchers that we can play a vital role in the research evaluation cycle.
We follow the methodology of van Raan cs. (the citation gurus in the Netherlands, or perhaps in Europe.) But whereas their methods are based on the refinement and extension of the raw data from the SCI. We apply their methodology with help of library licensed databases on the research output of our academic staff. In this case we make use of Web of Science and Essential Science indicators from Thomson Reuters.
The advantage of the implementation of this system on our repository, is that we can harvest and calculate the advanced bibliometric indicators for all our registerd publications at once. We can therefore apply this type of analysis at any time for any group, or each researcher. The system was developed for a massive peer review of 6 graduate schools, but as a result we cover all publication output as far as it is covered by WoS with our methodology. In this example you see the bibliometric results of a business unit from one of the research institutes, which did not participate in the peer review this year. But we can show similare type of results.
Or we can look at results for a single researcher. Here you see the bibliometrics for one of our excellent researchers, the microbiologist Willem de Vos. Who was a recipient of the most prestigious science award in the Netherlands. Since the data in the repository date back only to 2002. We calculated a variation on the h-index the h6, for the citations to publications over the period 2002-2007. So prof. de Vos has for that period co-authored 28 papers that received at least 28 citations.
What is really appreciated by the researchers is the fact that we publish their publication lists on which we base our calculations as well. For each article included we provide a direct link to Web of Science to have a look at the actual number of citations at this moment. Bu we include the number of citations at the time of our calculations, the research field in which the article was categorized, the Relative Impact (or crown indicator) of the article, and whether or not it belonged to the top 10% or top 1% most cited papers in its field. So far about the systems, but what has it brought us?