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

Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles

Assigning authorship and recognizing contributions to scholarly works is challenging on many levels. Here we discuss ethical, social, and technical challenges to the concept of authorship that may impede the recognition of contributions to a scholarly work. Recent work in the field of authorship shows that shifting to a more inclusive contributorship approach may address these challenges. Recent efforts to enable better recognition of contributions to scholarship include the development of the Contributor Role Ontology (CRO), which extends the CRediT taxonomy and can be used in information systems for structuring contributions. We also introduce the Contributor Attribution Model (CAM), which provides a simple data model that relates the contributor to research objects via the role that they played, as well as the provenance of the information. Finally, requirements for the adoption of a contributorship-based approach are discussed

Is Authorship Sufficient for Today’s Collaborative Research? A Call for Contributor Roles

Assigning authorship and recognizing contributions to scholarly works is challenging on many levels. Here we discuss ethical, social, and technical challenges to the concept of authorship that may impede the recognition of contributions to a scholarly work. Recent work in the field of authorship shows that shifting to a more inclusive contributorship approach may address these challenges. Recent efforts to enable better recognition of contributions to scholarship include the development of the Contributor Role Ontology (CRO), which extends the CRediT taxonomy and can be used in information systems for structuring contributions. We also introduce the Contributor Attribution Model (CAM), which provides a simple data model that relates the contributor to research objects via the role that they played, as well as the provenance of the information. Finally, requirements for the adoption of a contributorship-based approach are discussed

E08 Evaluating Open Access Journals: Moving from Provocative to Practical in Characterizing Journal Practices

Course site for FSCI 2022's E08 Evaluating Open Access Journals: Moving from Provocative to Practical in Characterizing Journal Practice

Understanding Academic Research: Free and Low-Cost Tools & Workflows

<div>ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group: Understanding Academic Research: Free and Low-Cost Tools & Workflows <div><i></i><b>Saturday, June 24 </b></div><div><i></i><b>1:00 PM - 2:30 PM </b></div><div><i></i><b>Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick, Clark/CC 22AB </b></div><div></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Much of the academic research world remains available only to institutions that are able to pay for subscriptions to specific tools and resources. However, over the last few years, vendors, funders, and other organizations have developed a number of free and low-cost tools targeted to a range of stakeholders. These tools and resources help support users inside and beyond institutions to discover, understand and use academic research.</div