Hi Ciaran,
In discussions with our School of Art, English and Drama about citations here at Loughborough we decided to go for an "improving your visibility" message rather than an "improving your metrics" one. We felt we were unlikely to engage arts academics with the slim prospect of improving their citations, but as most of them are practising artists, writers, performers and designers, visibility was something they'd all understand. We encouraged the school to make better use of the Institutional repository for documenting their work (we have DSpace, but I understand Eprints has a "Kultur" module specifically for non-text resources). We also suggested better use of social media to promote their work, and perhaps alt-metrics as a means of gauging the impact of their efforts.
With regards to Social Sciences, I think these are increasingly well-served by Scopus, although our Dean of Social Sciences is a big fan of Google Citation profiles.
I hope this is helpful?
Best wishes
Elizabeth Gadd
Academic Services Manager
Loughborough University
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> On 19 Nov 2013, at 15:44, "Ciaran Quinn" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've a query in from our research office as to what type of metrics other universities who are strong on social sciences, arts and humanities use? So any feedback would be greatly appreciated also perhaps your thoughts on the value of metrics in the Humanities.
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> Ciarán Quinn MA MLIS PGCTLTL
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