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Who’S Reading You? Alternative Metrics To Measure Your Scholarly Impact, Janelle Wertzberger
Who’S Reading You? Alternative Metrics To Measure Your Scholarly Impact, Janelle Wertzberger
Janelle Wertzberger
A short presentation will introduce altmetrics and describe how they seek to measure scholarly influence beyond traditional impact measurements (like journal impact factor and citation counts). We will show how altmetrics display on journal websites, library databases, and our own institutional repository. We’ll end with a discussion about altmetrics in your disciplines and departments … and fabulous door prizes!
Open Access And The Liberal Arts College, Janelle Wertzberger, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Open Access And The Liberal Arts College, Janelle Wertzberger, Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Janelle Wertzberger
Colleges and universities are generating increasing amounts of information both from research and scholarship as well as institutional histories and practices. What's the best way to handle this increasing volume of material while making all of it accessible to the college community? How should copyright be handled for documents owned by other entities? How should you handle creative works from artists or musicians? Join Janelle Wertzberger, Director of Reference and Instruction at Gettysburg College's Musselman Library and Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Public Services Librarian at the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan to hear about two projects that aim to gather much of …