NISO Webinar 14 December 2017

Mission: To inspire wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds.

Research department visibility and value to institution

Perception of institution’s value to all

Measurements to back up statements and reasoning

Libraries, Archives, and Museums are challenged to demonstrate 21st century usefulness

* New Media Consortium Horizon Report: 2015 Museum and Library Editions

Focus on ‘digital museum’

Social media presence

Strategy: capture visitor before, during, and after

Traditional metrics – citation counts, impact factors utility

New tools: scientometrics/altmetrics – Priem, Hemminger 2010

“Altmetrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact” – Priem et al 2010 http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

Challenge: harness online chatter for value of research

Answer: altmetrics

Journal impact factor is a citation ratio

DOI:

Unique ID

assigned through registration agency

Identifies content

Provides persistent link to Internet location

Publisher assigns DOI when articlepublished electronically

AGENDA SELECTIVE EXAMPLE

Research and Collections Staff Meeting

RESEARCH

New Publications (since last report):

· Brown, B.V. and E.A. Hartop. 2017. Mystery mushroom malingerers: Megaselia marquezi

Hartop et al. 2015 (Diptera: Phoridae).. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e15052. DOI:

10.3897/BDJ.5.e15052

· Alves, P. and A. Kampf. 2017. Serrabrancaita de la mina Sitio do Castelo, Folgosinho

(Guarda, Portugal). Acopios 8: 11- 15.

· Grey, I.E., Keck, E., MacRae, C.M., Glenn, A.M., Kampf, A.R., Nash, B.P. and S.M. Mills.

2017. Crystal chemistry of zinc incorporation in strunzite group minerals. Mineralogical

Magazine. 81: 755-766. DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2016.080.151

· Altig, R., G.B. Pauly, and R.E. Espinoza. 2016. Geographic Distribution: USA,

Mississippi, Oktibbeha County: Hemidactylus turcicus. Herpetological Review.

47(4):628.

· Putman, B.J., Drury, J.P., Blumstein, D.T. and G.B. Pauly. 2017. Fear no colors? Observer

clothing color influences lizard

o behavior. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182146

· Pauly, G.B., and K S. Delaney. 2017. Late-season reproduction in Western Toads (Bufo

boreas). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 116:147–151.

· BOXED ITEMS HAVE NO DOI OR OTHER IDENTIFIER

· PROGRAMS – participation in activities and events

· FIELD WORK updates

· BUSINESS TRAVEL

· EXTERNAL SUPPORT – grants and other support

· AWARDS & HONORS

· R&C IN THE MEDIA

• Identifies attention to research articles without press releases from NHMLAC Communications office

• Enables Communications office to more easily identify potential future promoters of NHMLAC research and activities

• Realization of attention to research by variety of interested parties around the world including:

• Research journalists

• News outlets

• Bloggers and other social media users with high count followers

• Provides easy way to gather attention of researchers’ work for grants, etc.

Use of any metrics to analyse published research not well received by researchers

Doesn’t reflect quality of work, just what’s ‘popular’

Doesn’t capture all published research

Doesn’t capture all the online discussions of research projects

Manipulation and gaming of system potential

Therapod Dinosaur Argentina 2016 Sea Stars 2014

Parasitic Fly 2012

Sea Stars 2014

Plesiosaur 2011

Parasitic Fly 2012

NHMLAC Contributions in Science articles

https://nhm.org/site/research-collections/research-tools/publications

NHMLAC Contributions in Science peer-reviewed journal uploaded to Biodiversity Heritage Library with article level metadata

Altmetric tracking options under review:

URI for articles without DOI

DOI assigned by NHMLAC or by BHL – possible future

DOI assigned by upload to repository

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/1000-vala2016-session-6-hulser

“Altmetrics: social media metrics tools expanding the librarian's role”

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5457289.v1

But how to track it?!

VALA2016: Peer reviewed papers & presentations

Institution

Aligns with institution quantitative and qualitative analyses

Augments Marketing and Communications analysis tools

Useful for any kind of research institution and those that serve researchers

Librarian

Shows awareness of new tools

Usefulness to mission of department and institution

• Jackie Chapman and team at the Smithsonian Libraries

• Susan Lynch and Mariah Lewis, New York Botanical Garden

• Patrick Randall, Harvard MCZ

• Rod Page, BioStor

• Mike Lichtenberg, Missouri Botanical Garden

• IMLS NDSR

• IMLS EABL

• NHMLAC: Marissa Kings, NDSR Resident; Yolanda Bustos, Museum Archivist

Volunteers and interns: Ariel, Antonio, Jason, Flannery, Lori, Audrey