http://chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Altmetrics-Revives/139557/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Steven B. Roberts’s 103-page tenure package features the usual long-as-your-arm list of peer-reviewed publications. But Mr. Roberts, an assistant professor at the University of Washington who studies the effects of environmental change on shellfish, chose to add something less typical to his dossier: evidence of his research’s impact online.
He listed how many people viewed his laboratory’s blog posts, tweeted about his research group’s findings, viewed his data sets on a site called Figshare, downloaded slides of his presentations from SlideShare, and otherwise talked about his lab’s work on social-media platforms. In his bibliography, whenever he had the data, he detailed not only how many citations each paper received but how many times it had been downloaded or viewed online. The strategy was part of “an attempt to quantify online science outreach,” he explained in his promotion package….
http://theconversation.com/cut-university-red-tape-with-online-research-bank-14564
A new review announced yesterday by the Minister for Tertiary Education Craig Emerson will examine the regulation of Australian universities.
It comes at an important time. Just recently a report commissioned by Universities Australia found that the average Australian university is spending nearly A$1 million every year meeting just part of one department’s reporting requirements.
As universities are forced to tighten their budgets, the review will be a vital step. But at the moment, it’s concentrating on just one kind of regulatory pressure – namely that from the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) – without considering all the other groups that ask universities for information.
But there is one idea that would not only help save universities from their large reporting burden, but also increase the public’s access to research.
Doing things thrice
At the moment Australian universities report their research in three different ways. All Australian universities, the CSIRO and many others have free digital repositories to make their staff’s research publications accessible to the public….
http://www.educause.edu/ero/articles
contents include:
Retention and Intention in Massive Open Online Courses: In Depth
Leading Change as a Library Administrator
http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/
Abstract: Delayed open access (OA) refers to scholarly articles in subscription journals made available openly on the web directly through the publisher at the expiry of a set embargo period. Though a substantial number of journals have practiced delayed OA since they started publishing e-versions, empirical studies concerning open access have often overlooked this body of literature. This study provides comprehensive quantitative measurements by identifying delayed OA journals, collecting data concerning their
publication volumes, embargo lengths, and citation rates. Altogether 492 journals were identified, publishing a combined total of 111 312 articles in 2011. 77,8 % of these articles were made open access within 12 months from publication, with 85,4 %
becoming available within 24 months. A journal impact factor analysis revealed that delayed OA journals have on average twice as high average citation rates compared to closed subscription journals, and three times as high as immediate OA journals. Overall the results demonstrate that delayed OA journals constitute an important segment of the openly available scholarly journal literature, both by their sheer article
This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Copyright © 2012 (American Society for Information Science and Technology)
source: sparc-oaforum
http://publications.arl.org/rli282/
contents include:
- The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012; Karla L. Strieb and Julia C. Blixrud
- Evolving Models of Reference Staffing at the University of Kansas Libraries; Frances Devlin and John Stratton
De Gruyter and the CLOCKSS Archive are delighted to announce that De Gruyter has become the 150th publisher to participate in the CLOCKSS Archive.
De Gruyter will preserve their 36 databases and 55 eBookPLUS in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.
http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4370
Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for scholarly journal publishing. There is more than enough money in the budgets of academic libraries to fund a fully open access scholarly journal publishing system. Seeking efficiencies, such as a reasonable average cost per article, will be key to a successful transition. This article presents macro level economic data and analysis illustrating the key factors and potential for cost savings.
http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/7329
ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (“the Standards”) were first adopted in 2000. Since then the Standards have become one of, if not the most essential document, related to the emergence of information literacy as a recognized learning outcome at many institutions of higher education. In the vast collection of research and writings about information literacy, the Standards are cited thousands of times. Put simply, ACRL’s the Standards are the de facto definition of information literacy. Thought they have served the academic library profession well over the past thirteen years, the current standards are showing their age. It is time for our association to engage in a process to rethink and reimagine them for the next generation of academic librarians, college students and the faculty….
http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/6.toc
contents include:
- Doug Way and Julie Garrison; Developing and implementing a disapproval plan: One university library’s experience
- Trina J. Magi and Patricia E. Mardeusz; What students need from reference librarians: Exploring the complexity of the individual consultation
- Scott Lapinski, Heather Piwowar, and Jason Priem; Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave:Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics