Open Science: Models to Expand Open Access Beyond Scholarly Journals

In February 2016, Robin Champieux, Scholarly Communication Librarian at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and Heather Coates, Digital Scholarship & Data Management Librarian at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI) co-presented a webinar for Electronic Resources & Libraries on Open Science.The webinar was supported by SAGE Publications

Metrics for Evaluating the Impact of Data Sets

Research is a social activity, involving a complex array of resources, actors, activities, attitudes, and traditions (Sugimoto & Larivière 2018). There are many norms, including the sharing of new work in the form of books and journal articles and the use of citations and acknowledgments to recognize the influence of earlier work, but what it means to produce impactful scholarship is difficult to define and measure. The goals, methods, metrics, and utility of evaluating the impact of data sets are situated within this broader context of scholarly communication and evaluation. An understanding of the dynamic history, current practices, concepts, and critiques of measuring impact for and beyond research data sets can help researchers navigate the scholarly dissemination landscape more strategically and gain agency in regard to how they and their work are evaluated and described. What is research impact? As Roemer and Borchardt (2015) describe, the concept involves two important ideas: the change a work influences and the strength of this effect. These effects can include, but are not limited to, advances in understanding and decision making, policy creation and change, economic development, and societal benefits. For example, rich documentation of an endangered language might lead to and support community and governmental revitalization efforts. However, the linkages between a specific scholarly product and its effects are rarely direct, there are disciplinary differences between how research is communicated and endorsed, and some outcomes take a very long time to manifest (Greenhalgh et al. 2016). This makes the assessment of research impact very labor intensive, even at a small scale, so researchers and decision makers often rely on data and metrics that are regarded as indicative of certain kinds of impact

Metrics Toolkit: an online evidence-based resource for navigating the research metrics landscape

While research metrics may seem well established in the scholarly landscape, it can be challenging to understand how they should be used and how they are calculated. The Metrics Toolkit is an online evidence-based resource for researchers, librarians, evaluators, and administrators in their work to demonstrate or assess the impact of research. This article was selected by the Virtual Projects Advisory Committee of technology experts after an annual call for projects in MLA-FOCUS and announcements to encourage submissions from all types of libraries

A Guided Tour of Issues and Trends: The Thirteenth Annual Health Sciences Lively Lunch

In this year\u27s sponsored but no holds barred lunch, the conference theme, Too much is not enough , resonates. Lunch host, Wendy Bahnsen from Rittenhouse offers a brief greeting, and Ramune Kubilius provides the traditional “year in review” synopsis. Moderator Andrea Twiss-Brooks sets the scene and provides a brief introduction to issues of current interest in the health sciences information arena. Topics of this session include: methods of measurement of health sciences journal use (Deborah Blecic); shared collection development and policies (Elizabeth Ketterman); scholarly communication activities in health sciences libraries (Robin Champieux); current challenges, trials, pitfalls and successes of e-books in the health sciences (Anneliese Taylor); provision of information resources for basic scientists (Marysue Schaffer)

Finding the principles of the commons: a report of the Force11 Scholarly Communications Working Group

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