Altmetrics - what are they and how are they used?

Are you interested in learning more about Altmetrics?

Altmetrics are a new way to measure the impact of academic research, taking into account mentions on social media,  Mendeley bookmarks etc.

www.altmetric.com is offering a series of webinars on the basics of altmetrics, and the ways in which institutions are using the data.

The next webinar is at 3pm on Wednesday 10^th December. See the altmetric.com blog for details on how to register for it, and the dates and times of future webinars.

Measuring your Research Impact with MyRi

Everything you ever wanted to know about Journal Rankings, Bibliometrics and Measuring your Research Impact is now available at www.ndlr.ie/myri. Aimed at Researchers, Staff and Students, the MyRi open access series of learning objects is the result of a joint project between the Library Services of UCD, NUIM, DCU and DIT. The project was funded by the NDLR and includes training materials, videos, interviews and handouts.

DIT Library and partners win funding for bibliometrics research

Four Irish academic libraries, UCD, DCU, DIT and Maynooth, are collaborating to produce online learning resources to support bibliometrics and research assessment awareness and training.

Bibliometrics is a set of methods used to measure research publications and is one key approach being used to assess research impact.

This project will produce a range of materials hosted on the NDLR dSpace platform that can be downloaded, customised and used under Creative Commons license by anyone providing bibliometrics awareness and training.
The successful bid was made for project funding from the NDLR LInCS (National Digital Learning Resources - Learning Innovation Community Support) 2010 programme (http://www.ndlr.ie/) with the materials available at the end of the year and showcased in the annual NDLR event.