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Jump-Starting The Conversation About Altmetrics At Umass Medical School, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

An outline of altmetrics activities by librarians at UMass Medical School's Lamar Soutter Library, which include: utilizing altmetrics in the the medical school's institutional repository, eScholarship@UMMS, for a journal published by the library; and, education and outreach efforts.

Altmetrics And Institutional Repositories: A Health Sciences Library Experiment, Lisa A. Palmer

Lisa A. Palmer

A brief overview of UMass Medical School's recent application of altmetrics in one collection in the medical school's institutional repository, eScholarship@UMMS.

The Academic Medical Library As Online Publisher, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer, Raquel Abad, Sally A. Gore, Donna Kafel, Elaine Russo Martin

Lisa A. Palmer

Objectives: To describe the use of an institutional repository system to facilitate the publishing activities of an academic medical library.

Methods: The Library launched its institutional repository in 2006 and developed a mature collection of peer-reviewed articles, posters, and conference proceedings. Beginning in 2009, the Library sought to expand the use of the repository and partnered with two academic departments, Neurology and Psychiatry, to publish electronic journals. In spring 2011 the Library began to explore the idea of publishing its own peer-reviewed, open access electronic journal. Planning and implementation considerations included: choosing a unique and appropriate name; infrastructure and hosting …