This is a presentation about altmetrics given at the RMSLA Fall meeting of 2014.

1. Altmetrics at Altitude: Attaining Higher Ground
Joseph Kraus
University of Denver
For the RMSLA Membership meeting, October 29, 2014

2. I am going to put this online at URL, so you don’t have to take prodigious notes.
Anyone want to be the Google Jockey?
Note:

3. Today, we are going to cover:
What, who, when, where, why, and how
Altmetrics

5. What the heck is it?
Altmetrics – What?

7. Article-Level Metrics
Artifact-Level Metrics
Other terms

8. Jason Priem, Heather Piwowar, Stacy Konkiel (ImpactStory)
Martin Fenner (PLOS)
William Gunn (Mendeley)
Euan Adie (Altmetric)
Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman (Plum Analytics)
Altmetrics – Who?

10. http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/building-skyscrapers-with-our- scholarship

11. Other interested parties
NISO
Publishers
Librarians/Information Professionals
Readers
Policy makers
Altmetrics – Who?

12. Right now and into the future.
Altmetrics – When?

13. Any place where people care about metrics
Such as administrators. Are there any who do not?
San Francisco - Mention DORA
Altmetrics – Where?

14. Because Reasons!
Altmetrics – Why?

15. Concerning social media, “there is a danger that this form of com- munication is gaining too high a value and that we are losing sight of key metrics of scientific value, such as citation indices.”
Altmetrics – Why?

16. “‘Let's laugh at those silly scientists doing social media outreach when they should be writing papers!’ The K-index trivialises those of us who work hard to communicate science with the public.”
Altmetrics – Why?

17. “Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'
Altmetrics – Why?

18. Publish or perish culture
Where (and how often) one publishes should not be the main concern
Evaluate the quality of the work
Some organizations have vowed to say that the journal name is not under consideration
Altmetrics – Why?

19. Broader Impacts Review Criterion
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07046/nsf07046.jsp
“Broaden dissemination to enhance scientific and technological understanding, for example, by presenting results of research and education projects in formats useful to students, scientists and engineers, members of Congress, teachers, and the general public.”
Altmetrics – Why?

20. ImpactStory
https://impactstory.org/JosephKraus
Plum Analytics
Pitt
Altmetric
For Institutions
Bookmarklet
Altmetrics – How?

23. From the publisher
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046150
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6208/1253596.full
Altmetrics – How?

26. Who said or wrote:
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Pop Quiz

27. Questions?

28. http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-13/
http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/6/292.full
http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/altmetrics
For further reading

29. Library Journal article on Plum by Bonnie Swoger
https://www.diigo.com/user/jokrausdu/ altmetrics
Follow #altmetrics on Twitter
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/586171/altmetrics/
More further reading

30. Found some in Google Images, “labeled for reuse with modification” or Flickr with 2 different CC licenses
Raised hands http://www.ok.gov/abletech/images/Classroom- FourthGraders.jpg via http://www.ok.gov/abletech/Special_Education_Resolution_Center/
https://twitter.com/IanMulvany/status/425006889949495296
Image credits

31. Human pyramid http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobaltfish/9614174604/ CC-BY-SA.
Elevator http://www.flickr.com/photos/yodudedan/448988655/ CC-BY 2.0
Image credits