Altmetrics - A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics

List of contents

1. Introduction - Andy Tattersall 2. Road map: From web 2.0 to altmetrics - Andy Tattersall 3. "Metrics of the trade": where have we come from? - Andrew Booth 4. The evolution of library metrics - Ben Showers 5. The rise of altmetrics - Euan Adie 6. Beyond bibliometrics: altmetrics reflects information about enagagement with more types of scholarly content from more types of consumers - William Gunn 7. Considerations for implementing new technologies - Andy Tattersall 8. Resources and tools - Andy Tattersall 9. The connected academic - implementing altmetrics within your organisation - Andy Tattersall 10. Appmetrics - improving impact on the go - Claire Beecroft 11. Open peer review - Andy Tattersall 12. Conclusion - Andy Tattersall

Summary

This book gives an overview of altmetrics, its tools and how to implement them successfully to boost and measure research outputs.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andy Tattersall (Editor)
• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781783301003
• ISBN: 978-1-78330-100-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 250 mm x 166 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Series: The Facet Performance Measurement and Metrics Collection; The Facet Library Metrics Collection; The Facet Research Support Collection
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system