Altmetrics & Scholarly Publishing:

The Library Lay of the Land

Elaine Lasda, MLS, CAS

Associate Librarian, University at Albany

Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting

June 1, 2017

The Bleeding Edge

My Institution

MaximizingResearch

Impact

Usage Metrics

The Death of the Big Deal?

The Open Access Factor

Library Collection Development

The role of metrics in general

The role of Altmetrics

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Elaine M. Lasda, MLS, CAS

University at Albany Libraries

Email: elasda@albany.edu

Twitter: @ElaineLibrarian

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