Wait! What? Has two decades of digital broken the scholarly record!

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Toby Green (Coherent Digital) The scholarly record has always comprised *more* than books and journals - pamphlets, reports, working papers etc, i.e. the much-ignored and often-misunderstood ‘grey literature’. Curiously, digital makes it harder for the "more" to be included in today's scholarly record and much is now missing. What makes this urgent is that Web 2.0 has unleashed a huge increase in born-digital grey stuff (all of the above but now also tweets, blog posts etc). In this lightning talk you’ll learn about the extent of the problem and a project that’s trying to address it.

Education

You'll find links to all the publications mentioned in this 🧵 here:
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Influential Researcher:
Tackling researcher engagement with metrics
through personalised action plans
James Barnett
Research Skills Advisor
University of Birmingham
Email: j.w.barnett@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @jameswbarnett
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-4246

The Scenario
• Metrics a significant part of research culture
Growth in Responsible
Metrics:
• Declaration on
Research Assessment
(DORA) (2012)
• Leiden Manifesto
(2015)
Citation data from Scopus
and Web of Science feeds
into university rankings:
• QS
• Times Higher
Education
• ARWU (Shanghai)
• US News Ranking
Institutions need
researchers to engage
with metrics, but
researchers are time-poor

University of Birmingham solution
• ‘Influential Researcher’ programme from Library Services Research Skills
Team
853 bespoke action
plans written and
delivered to researchers
during 2020 and 2021
Research Skills Team
benefit from:
• ‘Functional’ model of
academic liaison
support
• Partnership with UoB
Head of International
Reputation
Workshop developed
delivering:
• Contextual
presentation on
metrics and
Responsible Metrics
• Bespoke action plans

Thank you for listening!
Email: j.w.barnett@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @jameswbarnett
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbarnettlibrarian
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-4246

Wait! What? Has two decades of digital broken the scholarly record!

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