“Let’s Work Together”UCD Research, UCD Library and Altmetrics

Michael Ladisch & Joseph GreeneUCD Library

michael.ladisch@ucd.iejoseph.greene@ucd.ie

UCD Library and UCD Research Collaborations

• Research Repository UCD – Research Management System

• Sharing bibliometrics tools – InCites & SciVal

• Quality Review support for Schools/Institutes

• Digital Technologies workshops

• Altmetrics

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Altmetrics

Altmetrics?

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• New way of measuring different, non-traditional forms of impact

• Helps researchers to get credit for a broad range of impact activities

• Complementary to traditional citation-based analysis

Benefits:

• More timely

• Societal impact

• Capturing non-traditional outputs

Caveats:

• No standards (yet)

• Limited use of social media in research (still)

• Open to gaming

Altmetrics

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Altmetrics

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Three major players

http://www.altmetric.com/ http://www.plumanalytics.com/

https://impactstory.org/

Research Repository UCD and Altmetrics

• Queensland U. of Tech.: ‘Impact and Interest’ feature (OR2014)

• Uses free APIs to include Altmetric data (badges, or ‘donuts’)

• Only top three mentions available when using free API or without institutional subscription

• Low risk implementation: easy and free to add

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RRU and Altmetrics

• Queensland U. of Tech.: ‘Impact and Interest’ feature (OR2014)

• Potential to draw attention to RRU, increase uploads

• Built locally to include downloads, Scopus citations and Altmetric.com’s (free) API

• Only top three mentions when using free API• UCD Research saw potential at institutional level

• Mentions in gov’t policy papers = direct evidence of societal impact

• Purchased one year subscription

RRU and Altmetrics

• Built locally in Nov. 2014 to include downloads, Scopus citations and Altmetric.com’s (free) API

• Potential to draw attention to the repository, increase uploads

• Only ‘trick’ is embedding the DOI dynamically (other identifiers can be used)

http://api.altmetric.com/embeds.html

M. Ladisch & J. Greene, UCD LibraryJune 2015

RRU and Altmetrics

• Queensland U. of Tech.: ‘Impact and Interest’ feature (OR2014)

• Potential to draw attention to RRU, increase uploads

• Built locally to include downloads, Scopus citations and Altmetric.com’s (free) API

• Only top three mentions when using free API• UCD Research saw potential at institutional level

• Mentions in gov’t policy papers = direct evidence of societal impact

• Purchased one year subscription

RRU and Altmetrics

• Demonstrated to UCD Office of Research in December 2014

• UCD Research saw potential at institutional level

• Mentions in gov’t policy papers = direct evidence of societal impact

• Purchased one year subscription in early 2015

Altmetric for Institutions

Implementation

• UCD Research took up one year subscription

• UCD Research provided DOIs for tracking

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Altmetric for Institutions

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Altmetric for Institutions

Pilot phase

• UCD Library provides “training” for individual researchers, research administrators

• Tab on Bibliometrics LibGuide

• Informal working group (UCD Research/UCD Library) on use of altmetrics

• UCD Research working group Communication Supports for Enhanced Dissemination

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Problems?

• Not really ….

• To clarify who does what

Thank you!

Contact:Michael LadischEmail: michael.ladisch@ucd.ie Phone: +353 (0)1 716 7530 Twitter: MichaelUCDLib ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0124-5582

Joseph GreeneEmail: joseph.greene@ucd.ie Phone: +353 (0)1 716 7398