Prompting Open Access with Altmetrics Lesson Learned April

Prompting Open Access with Altmetrics: Lesson Learned April 28, 2015 Hui Zhang Digital Application Librarian Oregon State University Library

Scholars. Archive@OSU

Project Motivations ● Prompting open access with value-added service ● Prompting new metrics for scholarly communication

Implementation ● Using Altmetric. com embedable badges ● Design o o parsing DOI/handle from metadata field making Altmetric badge visible only when the score is larger than zero ● Changes made to Dspace XMLUI o o o navigation. xsl page-structure. xsl style. css

Library Outreach ● Notifying top authors whose articles having high altmetric score ● Providing workshops for faculty and graduate students on bibliometrics and altmetrics ● Writing a Lib. Guide introducing altmetrics

Faculty Feedbacks ● This is great! o especially for authors with articles having high altmetric score ● Interesting, but not sure o seen in majority of the responses ● I do not care o no response at all

Lessons and Thoughts ● A trust problem o o o number gaming data quality data providers ● Thoughts o o o providing altmetrics data in addition to bibliometric prompting altmetrics with open movement need to address faculty concerns over trust

Questions? hui. zhang@oregonstate. edu or scholarsarchive@oregonstate. edu