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Challenges of OA in the Next Frontier: ALM & Research Impact Assessment

Challenges of OA in the Next Frontier: ALM & Research Impact Assessment. Jennifer Lin Product Manager, PLOS. PLOS Publication Growth Rate. Freely available to all. At moment of publication. Free to access, Free to re-use. DATA SHOWN: PLOS ONE. How do I find relevant research?.

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Challenges of OA in the Next Frontier: ALM & Research Impact Assessment

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  1. Challenges of OA in the Next Frontier: ALM & Research Impact Assessment Jennifer Lin Product Manager, PLOS

  2. PLOS Publication Growth Rate Freely available to all At moment of publication Free to access, Free to re-use DATA SHOWN: PLOS ONE

  3. How do I find relevant research? Journal Title Citations More data Other Researchers More published results More distribution channels Information Overload is Filter Failure

  4. Effective discovery, navigation, and management of content is crucial THE NEXT FRONTIER FOR OA PLOS

  5. The Measurement Dilemma

  6. Measurement of research Researchers work within a diverse ecosystem of channels to share, comment, critique new research: • article access, • scholarly and nonscholarly citations, • blog and news coverage, • social network sharing • research community conversations ALMs Article-Level Metrics captures this activity and measures it in a transparent and comprehensive manner.

  7. What do researchers do with articles? 100% 22.2% Article-Level Metrics from November 8, 2012 for 63,771 PLOS Papers 0.3%

  8. Engagement with PLOS ONE articles Analysis of 37,267 PLOS ONE articles by Martin Fenner

  9. Engagement with all PLOS articles Proportion of articles covered by source Metrics for 63,771 PLOS articles published until November 8, 2012

  10. PLOS ALM Suite ALM Article Example

  11. Article-Level Metrics: • Diverse and efficient measurement • Increased diversity without losing traditional value • Accelerated measurement response • Easier to own and manage • Flexibly accommodates varied uses

  12. ALMs allow you to “dig into the aspect of impact you want to explore” -Heather Joseph, SPARC

  13. Article-Level Metrics are a better filter for discovery and evaluation

  14. ALMs on the Journals - Display ALM Article Example

  15. ALMs on the Journals - Signposts

  16. Tito RY, Knights D, Metcalf J, Obregon-Tito AJ, Cleeland L, et al. (2012) Insights from Characterizing Extinct Human Gut Microbiomes. PLOS ONE 7(12): e51146. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051146

  17. Integration of ALMs into discovery and evaluation is work in progress

  18. ALMsrevealwhat articles are used Doris Duke Foundation funded PLOS articles Rectangle size correlates with total views (HTML and PDF) from PLOS website. Color intensity correlates with number of Scopus citations. Article Usage and Citations by Subject Category

  19. ALMs reveal where articles are used Alzheimer‘s Association funded PLOS articles Geolocation of 410 authors for 84 articles ALMs reveal howarticles areused

  20. ALMs reveal a view of impact ex: academic homepage

  21. Quickly Expanding Utilization Researchers use ALMs in various ways to track and communicate the progress of their work*: With Whom? University administrators, funding organizations (program managers), research collaborators, public relations departments & other promotion outlets How? * Author survey, July 2012

  22. Use Article-Level Metrics for hiring, tenure, promotion decisions? ? How?

  23. Publisher adoption is growing • Many publishers have joined PLOS in displaying article-level metrics on their journal article, including: And many more forthcoming…

  24. How do we fully realize the potential of ALMs? BUILD COMMUNITY - access to ALMs (make data standard, freely available) - ALM tools

  25. Getting started as a librarian 29

  26. Getting started as an institutional repository & university press 30

  27. For Further Information… • Give us your feedback, join our ALM email list (alm@plos.org) • PLOS ALM informational site: http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/ • PLOS API and developer information: • http://api.plos.org/alm/using-the-alm-api/ • http://code.google.com/p/alt-metrics/ • Scholarly research on ALMs & altmetrics • PLOS ONE Collection: http://altmetrics.org/plosone/ Follow us on Twitter: @plosalm

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