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

About the author

Andy Tattersall BA (Hons) MSc FHEA is an Information Specialist at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. He is also secretary of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Multimedia and Information Technology Committee and a Mendeley Advisor for the social reference management software company.

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), Tattersall Andy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2016
• EAN: 9781783301003
• ISBN: 978-1-78330-100-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 209 g
• Series: The Facet Performance Measurement and Metrics Collection; The Facet Library Metrics Collection; The Facet Research Support Collection
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library and information services, Academic & specialist libraries