Category: Altmetrics

eSpace Update: What's New?

Published: Tue, 2013-04-09 15:04 by Jane Smeathers

UQ eSpace What's New?

Social Media - A social media badge has been added to the view pages of eSpace records - now your favourite records can be "Liked, Tweeted and Shared".
Scope and Policy document updated - The eSpace Scope and Policy document has been updated.
'Daily Snapshot' - The order of items in the 'Daily Snapshot' on the eSpace homepage now defaults to 'Recently Added ' rather than to 'News' and the order has been changed to give more prominence to the former.
Sherpa/Romeo - Sherpa/Romeo provides publisher information, links now display in eSpace on the pages from all journals listed in Sherpa/Romeo.
Improved usability of view pages - Usability of 'View Pages' in eSpace has been improved by moving Document-type, Sub-type and Collections to the foot of each record and relocating the DOI to the top.
For Unit Publication Officers - The Unit Publication Officer Guide has been significantly updated.

For further information go to UQ eSpace.

Beyond Publish or Perish: Alternative Metrics for Scholarship

Published: Wed, 2012-11-21 10:21 by Miranda Mariette

Scrutiny of scholarly publications and research data has traditionally been undertaken through peer review and proprietary bibliometrics. But should article level metrics alone be used to evaluate the impact of research? Increasingly practitioners are turning to social networks such as blogs, Twitter and Mendeley to assess the scholarly impact of published works.

NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently held a webinar to discuss the opportunities (and challenges) of alternative metrics, from issues in collecting data to interesting results of data analysis.