Altmetrics in Institutional Repositories: New Perspectives for Assessing Research Impact


Autoria(s): Rehemtula, Salima; Rosa, Maria de Lurdes; Leitão, Paulo; Avilés, Rosario Arquero
Data(s)

07/07/2014

07/07/2014

01/06/2014

Resumo

Poster (and extended abstract) presented at the 13th International Conference "Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2014)" held on 16-20th June, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia

The aim of this project is to find out if and how Institutional Repositories (IR) are using alternative metrics or Altmetrics (besides usage statistics and citation counts) as a value-added service to showcase their content impact and give some hints on how this tool can be used to supplement the traditional research performance assessment exercise in an institution. Altmetrics can provide a measure of impact for all non-journal scholarly works available in Open Access (OA), like usage statistics, but it can go further by contextualizing the readership of an author’s research output. The increasing importance of Altmetrics indicators led to its inclusion in the 2014 edition of the Ranking Web of Repositories. This project promises to be useful for repositories managers in that it gives some examples of good practices of implementation of Altmetrics along with other metrics in IRs which can help to increase the content, foster the adoption of OA by authors, contribute to the visibility of the institution and meet the funding agencies requirements, thus making a strong case for the relevance of IRs in the context of the research assessment process.

Identificador

978-953-314-077-3

http://hdl.handle.net/10362/12398

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2014)

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Institutional repositories #Research assessment #Usage statistics #Citation counts #Altmetrics
Tipo

conferenceObject