Slides from NISO Webinar: “New Perspectives on Assessment How Altmetrics Measure Scholarly Impact”
The NISO (National Information Standards Organization) webinar took place yesterday (November 13, 2013).
Abstract
As scholars increase their usage of Web 2.0 tools like CiteULike, Mendeley, Twitter, and blogs there is an opportunity to create new filters. These metrics show web-based traces of research communication like citations from social networking links, press coverage, comments, etc. These metrics are complementary to COUNTER, impact factor and eigenfactor reports. Realizing this, many authors have begun to call for investigation of these metrics under the banner of “altmetrics.” Specifically, altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing and informing scholarship.
Speakers
Euan Adie
Founder, Altmetric.com
Stefanie Haustein
Research Analyst at Science-Metrix
Mike Taylor
Research Specialist, Elsevier Labs
You can access a transcript of the Q&A portion of the webinar here.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.