Demonstrating your Research Impact using Bibliometric and Altmetric Tools Berenika Webster, Coordinator of Strategic Assessment Robin Kear, Research and Educational Support Researchers are often asked to demonstrate, to their institutions, funders and general public (taxpayers), the impact of their research activities. Bibliometrics and altmetrics are two quantitative approaches to measuring impact of research outputs. Robert Merton s 1960s work on the normative theory of science gave basis to the use of citations to measure impact of research. If scientific knowledge is developed incrementally then a citation to a previous work would demonstrate its impact on subsequent research ( standing on the shoulders of giants ). Publishing for impact Measures used to evaluate the impact of scholarly journals include: Journal Impact Factor (Web of Science data) Measuring impact with citations Google Scholar Metrics Eigenfactor score (WoS data) Article Influence Score (WoS data) SJR: SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus data) SNIP: Source Normalized Impact per Paper (Scopus data) Measuring impact with Altmetrics Researchers and scholars have embraced the online social space as a way to share findings, interpret data, collaborate, and distribute research. Altmetrics is an attempt to measure the impact of research in this social space. In addition to citation counts, these metrics capture other forms of acknowledgement usage (e.g. downloads), captures (bookmarks, saves), mentions (news articles, comments), and social media (tweets, shares, likes). Advent of electronic databases allowed us to better understand influence, through citation count, within the system of science. Both commercial and open source providers developed new services. For instance, publication and citation data from Web of Science (WoS) and SCOPUS powers many of these tools (SciVal and InCites). Web crawlers are used to compile data for others (Google Scholar, Publish or Perish or Microsoft Academic Search or Scholarometer). Plum Analytics is pioneering the use of altmetrics to measure impact of researchers and research groups. Pitt was the first institution to adopt Plum Analytics. Research Gate, Impact Story, Altmetric.com, and academia.edu are other developments in this field. Next steps Which tool should I use to demonstrate the impact of my research? What are the limitations of these tools? How should I interpret the data/metrics they provide? How can I use these on my tenure or grant application? The ULS has services that assist researchers with managing their research personas, identifying sources of citation and interpreting metrics. For more information contact your Liaison Librarian and/or see our Guide on Bibliometrics and Altmetrics. guides.library.pitt.edu/bibliometrics
Metadata & Digitization Services Mike Bolam, Digital Scholarship Services What can metadata do? Metadata provides contextual description and documentation, facilitates long-term preservation, and leads to discoverability of information resources, digital scholarship, and research data. Digitization Equipment Three multi-purpose scanners for digitizing texts, posters, maps, and other objects. Two flatbed image scanners for digitizing photographic prints, transparencies, and negatives. One sheet-feed scanner for disbound texts Metadata Capabilities We have expertise in the application of community supported metadata standards to locally-developed digital collections, research datasets, digital humanities projects, and other collections of scholarly materials. We can help by developing metadata solutions with an eye towards sustainability, extensibility, accessibility, usability, and interoperability. Optical Character Recognition Services Automated conversion of scanned images of machine-printed into a computer-processable format Metadata Services Consultation Review project requirements and make recommendations Analyze and transform existing metadata Educate and train metadata creators Development Identify community metadata standards that best serve access, interoperability, and reuse Determine types of access and appropriate repositories that fit project needs Establish workflows for metadata creation Production Reformat metadata to meet project specifications Modify metadata to conform with community standards or project guidelines Provide assistance with controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and ontologies. Digitization Capabilities We have expertise in digitizing a variety of formats, including photographs, negatives, texts, posters, maps, and ephemeral objects. We adhere to best practices for scanning requirements, color management, image editing, and file formats. We can support the reformatting of materials beyond the capabilities of in-house hardware, such as microfilm, audio, and video.
Citation Management Tools EndNote and Mendeley Marnie Hampton, Coordinator, Library Instruction and Liaison Librarian Anne Schwan, Public Services Librarian, Bevier Engineering Library EndNote Highlights: Unlimited desktop storage space Robust editing features to customize citations styles and format bibliographies What is a citation management tool? A citation management tool, such as EndNote or Mendeley, is a program that allows you to collect, store, and organize citations and papers. These tools also allow you to create in-text citations and bibliographies and include collaborative features so you can easily work with colleagues on projects. Both EndNote and Mendeley are available for you to download for free. The University Library System offers training workshops on these tools, and we are happy to provide individual or small group training sessions. Contact your librarian to set up a session. Find Full Text feature will search the library s subscriptions and the open web for PDFs and automatically attach them to citations in your collection Create customizable Smart Groups to organize your library as you add citations Mendeley Highlights: A growing academic social network used by scholars nationally and internationally Private groups for sharing papers, notes, and annotations, and collaborating on projects Public groups for following disciplines and discovering new research Free mobile app for ipad or iphone Stay organized: Save time: Share, Collaborate Sign up for a workshop online: Collect and export citations Add in-text citations and & Discover: library.pitt.edu/citation-signup directly from the databases you use most often Attach and annotate PDFs and Word documents format your bibliography while writing your papers Choose from thousands of citation styles, or create Create groups to share research with colleagues at Pitt, or elsewhere Use shared groups to work Browse our Edndnote and Mendeley guides: guides.library.pitt.edu/endnote guides.library.pitt.edu/mendeley to citations your own customized style collaboratively on a project Contact your librarian for assistance: Create folders and groups Sync your collections Tap into existing research library.pitt.edu/subject_specialists to organize your research with a web account or networks to discover new mobile device to access research and share your own your research on-the-go
ULS Local Digital Collections & Services Jeanann Haas, Special Collections David Grinnell, Archives Service Center Historic Pittsburgh Portal to regional history 14+ cultural heritage repositories contributing content Visual images, texts, maps Finding aids to archival and manuscript collections Documenting Pitt University history Yearbooks, alumni publications, sport media guides, course catalogs, photographs Coming soon: The Pitt News! Faculty Partnerships American Left Ephemera Collection (Richard Oestreicher) Pittsburgh Speech & Society (Barbara Johnstone) Chartres Cathedral / Vezelay Abbey (Alison Stones) Kogyo Japanese wood block prints (Richard Smethurst) Darlington Digital Library Archives of Scientific Philosophy Documents a significant Pitt academic program Selected correspondence and personal papers Wilfrid Sellars, Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach among other prominent members of the Vienna Circle Americana and Western Pennsylvania history Manuscripts, maps, atlases, prints, broadsides, books John James Audubon s Birds of America Pamela J. Stewart & Andrew J. Strathern Archive 19th Century Schoolbooks (Jean and Stephen Carr) University Collaborations University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions Pitt Alumni Association Pitt Office of Public Affairs CIDDE Scanning Services Architectural drawings for Frank Toker Configuring Disciplines exhibition for Drew Armstrong Works of Goethe exhibition for Clark Muenzer World War I trench maps for Josh Ellenbogen Dime novels for Tyler Bickford
Browzine: Academic Journals on Your Tablet Jeff Wisniewski, Web Services and Communications Where is the back content? BrowZine is a tool to access current journal content. To search for articles, or access backfile content, please use one of the other access options available via the library website at library.pitt.edu Besides reading articles is there anything else I can do with Browzine? Yes! You can: Use BrowZine to easily find, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals available from Pitt libraries, or through Open Access publishers, covering all disciplines. Browse titles by subject to easily find journals of interest Easily view table of contents of current past journals Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals Share with other researchers by posting to Facebook and Twitter BrowZine brings recent issues of scholarly journals to your ipad or Android tablet for browsing. email the article (which sends not a PDF but a link to the publisher s page for the item) save the item in Browzine for access later share an item on Facebook, Twitter, or other services open an item in installed apps (Safari, Dropbox, PDF annotation apps, ibooks, Evernote, etc.) send at item to Zotero From a review of Browzine in the Chronicle of Higher Education: I can imagine sitting down with it and over a cup of coffee, scanning through the latest Who is it for? People who want to stay How do I get BrowZine? What devices are supported? Why aren t certain journals included? journals in my field. It certainly current on articles being BrowZine is available from the As a new service, BrowZine has been enjoyable scanning published in their field researchers, faculty, Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, and the Amazon started with a small set of publishers, and is adding through the latest number administrators, graduate Kindle App Store. It s a free more on a regular basis. of American Literary History. students and anyone else download, but make sure to with favorite titles. choose University of Pittsburgh from the list of libraries so you have access to the journals we subscribe to.
D-Scholarship@Pitt--Promote Preserve & Propel Your Research John Barnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian, ULS Office of Scholarship Communication and Publishing d-scholarship@mail.pitt.edu The perfect place to share your research Research papers, published or unpublished Conference presentations White papers and reports Audio and video Research data d-scholarship.pitt.edu The power of Pitt Keep it all together Put all your work in one place, making it easier for others to find PDFs, PowerPoints, audio, video, zips Keep all files in one record Meet grant requirements by providing a permanent home for your research outputs Long-term preservation guaranteed Who s reading? Who s citing? Track the impact of your work with built-in metrics Citations via Scopus, PubMed, and SSRN Downloads, views, and clicks Sharing through Mendeley and Figshare Show colleagues and administrators the important research you re doing at Pitt Highlight the scholarship of your departments, research centers, and labs Use D-Scholarship@Pitt to attract research and funding opportunities The power of Open Access Share your research broadly, safely, and wisely with scholars and students around the world No cost or technology barriers to accessing and benefitting from your research Social bookmarking via Delicious Social media buzz from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and more You re in control Provide Open Access to your research or limit access to your scholarship to Pitt only Make your research outputs available immediately or embargo them for a period of time Reserve all rights to your work or pick a Creative Commons license to let others know how to attribute and use your scholarship Copyright guidance from library staff so that you can share safely and legally Ask Me about ORCID! Use an ORCID ID to distinguish you from other researchers Helps identify you and only you as the author of a work Use it when submitting publications and applying for grants to ensure you credit for your work Coming soon: Pitt-wide registration for ORCID IDs More info: orcid.org
Open Access: Liberate Your Research Lauren B. Collister, Ph.D., Electronic Publications Associate, Office of Scholarly Communication & Publishing oscp@mail.pitt.edu Why Open Access? Research improves the public good through scientific discovery, innovation, and education yet too often the results are closed behind subscription paywalls, inaccessible to the majority of a community of potential users. The Internet gives us the opportunity to bring research to a worldwide audience at virtually no cost, with benefits to all Open Access benefits researchers by: What is Open Access? Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research works, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. (Source: www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access) How you can participate Open Access is compatible with: copyright peer review revenue (even profit) print preservation prestige quality career advancement indexing Deposit your work in D-Scholarship Publish in Open Access journals Utilize our Open Access Author Fee Fund & other features and supportive services associated with conventional scholarly literature. (Source: Peter Suber, Open Access Overview, 2004) Choose Creative Commons licenses for your work and teaching materials Encourage others to share their work openly Volunteer as a reviewer or editor for an Open Access journal Start the OA conversation with a toll-access journal Celebrate Open Access Week with us Increasing visibility and impact of research work Creating new avenues for discovery Enhancing interdisciplinary research and collaboration Accelerating the pace of research, discovery, and innovation Open Access benefits the community by: Democratizing access to research across all populations Providing previously unattainable access to underfunded groups Encouraging innovation with access to cutting-edge research Enriching the quality of education Are you committed to openness? At Pitt: Open Access @ Pitt: openaccess.pitt.edu/ Pitt OA Author Fee Fund: library.pitt.edu/about-open-access-author-fees-fund D-Scholarship, the Pitt archive: d-scholarship.pitt.edu Beyond Pitt: Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition: sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access Directory of Open Access Journals: doaj.org Creative Commons: creativecommons.org SHERPA/RoMEO publisher & journal policies: sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Faculty Support from Librarians Judy Brink, Head, Engineering Librarian YOUR Research Discipline specific resources Content support for Interdisciplinary scholarship We can help you identify quality Open Access journals in your field Funding for publications published by gold open access publishers We can help share your scholarly publications with other researchers around the world that might not otherwise have access to them Want to find out who s citing, sharing, and talking about your work? Check out our alternative metrics project Conducting Literature reviews Time saving services: (a) GET IT (b) EZ BORROW (c) Interlibrary Loan (d) BrowZine and other journal alerting services YOUR Teaching Read better papers: librarians can highlight content customized for your class, for your students Research guides that can be linked to your CourseWeb Course reserve/e-reserve material for your students Meet individually with students from your classes that need help with finding relevant content Ask Us To Buy It Point-of-need: Contact YOUR librarian We will help to support your teaching & research in whatever methods you choose!
Investigating Digital Scholarship Aaron Brenner, Coordinator of Digital Scholarship Services abrenner@pitt.edu; Hillman Library G-7 Defining Digital Scholarship In her 2007 book titled Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, Christine L. Borgman writes, Scholars in all fields are taking advantage of the wealth of online information, tools, and services to ask new questions, create new kinds of scholarly products, and reach new audiences. 1 Digital Scholarship, the product of the scholarly shift that Borgman describes, is an evolving term and one that may mean different things to different people. One useful definition is illustrated here: Exploring Digital Scholarship at Pitt In spring 2014, a study that explored digital scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh was conducted with the aim of identifying needs and opportunities for support from the ULS. There were some broad areas of interest among faculty that the ULS is working to address, including: Fostering communities of practice around digital scholarship Space to experiment with digital tools Digital scholarship is: the use of digital evidence and method digital authoring digital publishing digital curation and preservation the digital use and reuse of scholarship 2 Assistance with research data management Support for the stewardship of digital scholarship Digital Scholarship can refer to research, teaching, and learning. It has some common characteristics and is often -- Increased visibility for digital scholarship Collaborative Creative Interdisciplinary Looking at Library Roles Research libraries are tasked with supporting knowledge creation, dissemination, and stewardship. The ULS and peer institutions recognize that support for digital scholarship is in line with the traditional roles of research libraries and we are interested in partnering with and assisting you! References: 1 Christine L. Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007): xvii. 2 Abby Smith Rumsey, Scholarly Communication Institute 9: New-Model Scholarly Communication (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 2011): 2, accessed August 13, 2014, http://libra.virginia.edu/catalog/libra-oa:3260 Connecting with You The ULS is continuing to learn about digital scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh. As we aspire to build up support for digital scholarship, please consider talking to us about your own research and teaching. Contact: Aaron Brenner, abrenner@pitt.edu Nora Mattern, emm100@pitt.edu Mike Bolam, mrbst20@pitt.edu Or find us in our current space Hillman Library Room G-7
Exploring and Supporting Research Data Management at Pitt Nora Mattern, Postdoctoral Researcher University Library System and the School of Information Sciences emm100@pitt.edu; Hillman Library G-7 Learning about Data Management Needs on Campus In the spring and summer of 2014, Aaron Brenner, Coordinator of Digital Scholarship Services at ULS, conducted a study on digital scholarship that revealed some findings related to data management: Faculty are challenged by the growing requirements to include data management plans with grant applications D-Scholarship, the University of Pittsburgh s institutional repository, offers long-term storage for scholarly output. Pitt researchers can upload their published or unpublished work to D-Scholarship@Pitt and this includes datasets. Users can submit nearly any format of file to D-Scholarship and compressed file formats. Online help and contact information for support are available through D-Scholarship@Pitt. Faculty are interested in the ULS providing data management resources and trainings Faculty would like guidance and support for the long-term storage of datasets The ULS is continuing its investigation of data management practices at Pitt and its exploration of ways we can help address data management needs on campus. We re interested in talking to you as we move forward with this! We can also introduce you to a number of tools that may be useful as you move through the data lifecycle. For example, DMPTool is a free tool that guides users through the development of data management plans that meet specific funder requirements. Sample DMPs are also available through the DMPTool. The Research Data Lifecycle In 2004, Jacobs and Humphrey provided a valuable description of data management : Data archiving is a process, not an end state where data is simply turned over to a repository at the conclusion of a study. 1 A research data lifecycle model is a useful means for thinking about the phases and work involved in data management. The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a disciplinary data repository that provides such a model, which is adapted and illustrated here. Good data management, as ICPSR s model suggests, actually begins before a researcher collects any data. Databib and re3data are registries and searchable catalogs of data repositories. Through these resources, researchers can locate repositories where they can share their own data and access relevant shared datasets. ICPSR Data Lifecycle Model 2 (adapted) Depositing Data Proposal and Data Management Plans Project Start-Up (Pilot Stage) Resources Available to You The ULS can help you with the management of your data through consultations. Contact us for assistance with: Preparation for Data Sharing Data Analysis Data Collection and File Collection References: 1 Christine L. Borgman, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007): xvii. 2 Abby Smith Rumsey, Scholarly Communication Institute 9: New-Model Scholarly Communication (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 2011): 2, accessed August 13, 2014, http://libra.virginia.edu/catalog/libra-oa:3260 Understanding funding requirements for data sharing and plans Creating a data management plan Locating disciplinary repositories to access datasets and to deposit your own data Describing and choosing sustainable formats for your data
E-journal Publishing @ Pitt Vanessa Gabler, Electronic Publications Manager Do You Have a Role in Publishing? Editor for a journal? Reviewer for a journal? Author of journal articles? Do you edit a journal? We: Provide software to keep all of your journal s information in a central online location from initial submission through publication. Provide the Web site design, training, and ongoing support for your editorial workflow. Promote your journal through major indexing, abstracting and discovery services. Did you know that the ULS is a leader in Open Access Publishing? The ULS publishes 36 scholarly peer-reviewed journals. We work with editorial teams at Pitt and around the world. The ULS is on the leading edge of technology innovation in publishing with services like Register ISSNs for all journals and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for each article. Provide site analytics, and each article receives and displays alternative metrics. Measuring research impact through alternative metrics Depositing research data to accompany research articles Integrating with researcher identifier systems like ORCID Do you want to move a print journal to an online environment? We can help you achieve your publishing goals. Do you need better management for your journal? Why is the ULS engaged in publishing? To propel Pitt research output to greater discovery on a global stage. To share our technology and innovation with the University community. To support Open Access to new scholarly content for the benefit of all. Let us know! library.pitt.edu/e-journals Thinking of Starting a New Journal? We want to help! We re eager to hear your ideas and share with you more about our publishing services.