Leveraging a Library CMS and Social Media to promote #openaccess (OA) to institutional research output
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The document discusses the role of open access (OA) in promoting institutional research outputs, including the importance of depositing peer-reviewed manuscripts in repositories to meet eligibility for research assessments in the UK. It highlights traditional bibliometrics and introduces alternative metrics (altmetrics) as indicators of impact, emphasizing the shift towards online scholarly communication. Additionally, the document outlines strategies for leveraging social media and library CMS to enhance the visibility and impact of research outputs.
Leveraging a Library CMS and Social Media to promote #openaccess (OA) to institutional research output
- 1. Leveraging a Library CMS and Social Media to promote #openaccess (OA) to institutional research output Nick Sheppard Research Services Advisor LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY
- 2. Open Access Open Access (OA) means that items of scholarly work are made available online, in a digital format, at no charge to the reader and with limited restrictions on re-use. • Gold and Green models • Hybrid • Finch and RCUK (2012) • HEFCE and REF
- 3. Research Excellence Framework (REF) • Assess quality of research in UK HEIs • 36 Units of Assessment • Selected outputs • Impact case studies • Inform grant allocation
- 4. HEFCE bombshell (April 2013) “to be eligible for submission to the post-2014 REF, authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository on acceptance for publication”
- 5. Traditional bibliometrics “the branch of library science concerned with the application of mathematical and statistical analysis to bibliography; the statistical analysis of books, articles, or other publications.” (Oxford English Dictionary Online) • Citation count & h-index • Journal Impact Factor (JIF) • Other impact measures – Knowledge transfer – Activities (presentations, consultancy, review) – Prizes – Public engagement / education – Policy documents • Media – TV and radio – Blogs/social media
- 6. OA and impact • Fundamentals of research? – Creating, using, sharing and accessing information • Increases efficiency of research process • Evidence of increased citation • The Open Access Citation Advantage Service - http://sparceurope.org/oaca/ As scholarly communication moves increasingly online, more indicators have become available: how many times an article has been bookmarked, blogged about, cited in Wikipedia and so on. These metrics can be considered altmetrics – alternative metrics of impact. (Piwowar 2013)
- 7. Alternative metrics • Various flavours – Plum analytics - http://www.plumanalytics.com/ – Impact story - https://impactstory.org/ – Altmetric - http://www.altmetric.com/ • Article level metrics – frontiers in Psychology http://journal.frontiersin.org/a rticle/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00 058/abstract – PLoS One http://journals.plos.org/ploso ne/article?id=10.1371/journa l.pone.0121708 – Repositories – IRUS-UK – Statistics at Leeds Beckett • The end of JIF?
- 8. Leeds Beckett University • 26,000 students, 2,900 staff • Growing research profile - Research Institutes and Research Centres - some areas of longstanding excellence, e.g. Sport - newer areas also high profile, e.g. Retail, Men’s Health - positive outcome in the REF (Unit 26) - increasing numbers of research students • Enterprise activities • Looking ahead to REF2020
- 9. Publication management software Upload AAM* to repository Bibliometrics (Citations, “Alternative metrics”) __________________ Flexible API • Reporting of research outputs • Publication feeds to staff-profiles • Bespoke feeds (subject/keyword) Aggregate data from multiple sources LibGuides *AAM – Authors’ Accepted Manuscript Infrastructure
- 10. LibGuides
- 14. Other examples • Prison Research Network • International Women’s Day 2014 • General Election 2015 • Eating Disorders Week 2015 • Men's Health Week 2015 • 50 years of Speech & Language Therapy • University Mental Health Awareness Day 2015 • Dementia Awareness Day 2015
- 16. Keeping an eye on things…
- 20. IRUS-UK • COUNTER compliant download stats • 88 participating UK repositories (October 2015) • Plug-ins for EPrints and Dspace • Bespoke implementation for other platforms • Authenticate via UK federation http://www.irus.mimas.ac.uk/
Editor's Notes
- #5: Applies to journal articles and conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1 April 2016 Urge HEIs to implement now Where there is an embargo, authors can comply by making a ‘closed’ deposit on acceptance Various exceptions Deposit on acceptance delayed until April 2017
- #7: Research can be easily disseminated online amongst communities of researchers and interested lay people, via social media for example, and it is clearly beneficial if that research is freely accessible on the open web rather than restricted by subscription access.
- #9: Unit 26: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism
- #11: Symplectic Elements: Publication management software Syncs with citation databases Repository integration Flexible API LibGuides: Springshare CMS for libraries Flexible widget support Elements API
- #13: Libguides,our content management system, and Symplectic Elements, infrastructure supporting uni repository, working together around selected theme days e.g. Mental Health awareness week, Eating disorders week, the general election etc. Research tagged by Librarian, coding to link the two together, auto display of open access institutional research outputs & links to author versions, self archived in Eprints available along green oa publishing route
- #14: We are piloting a project whereby we choose celebration days or events where we can tweet a link to our research outputs in this area which are listed in a Libguide
- #16: 240 members
- #19: Repository visitors, content & downloads Google Analytics IRUS-UK Top ten articles All time Monthly Altmetric scores Top 10 by faculty Twitter analytics