I am one of the managers for our Academic Liaison Team at De Montfort University but I also have a remit for research support.  The institution is currently considering the use of bibliometrics and we have a trial of both SciVal and InCites but I am unsure as to whether there will be enough interest to go forward with them.  Otherwise we do some training with research students and staff on using bibliometrics to measure the impact of their research, but we don’t really do anything indepth with bibliometrics at the moment.

 

Jenny

 

 

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Directorate of Library and Learning Services

Kimberlin Library

De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH

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From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Uta Grothkopf
Sent: 23 March 2016 11:09
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Subject: Re: Lis-Bibliometrics introductions

 

Hi all, 

 

I joined Lis-Bibliometrics a few months ago and have been a passive user so far. As the head librarian of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), I am also in charge of our Telescope Bibliography (telbib) database (http://telbib.eso.org), including curating the content and deriving metrics from it. The library (I.e., me and my colleague, a library technology specialist) are also in charge of identifying and implementing further features, like additional parameters, creating visualizations and interactive graphs (see e.g., http://www.eso.org/sci/php/libraries/telbibstats/), and providing statistics and reports. 

 

I am very interested in new bibliometrics tools the community experiments with to understand whether they can/should be applied to our set of metrics. 

 

Thanks and regards, 

 

Uta

 

Uta Grothkopf

ESO Library

European Southern Observatory

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From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of WHYTE Angus <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wednesday 23 March 2016 11:49
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Subject: Re: Lis-Bibliometrics introductions

 

Hi, I've lurked on the list for a while. I have a research background in information science and I'm interested in how bibliometrics can inform metrics for appraising research data value, including its discoverability, e.g. in terms of how the usage and citation of data affects other research outputs and vice versa .  

 

I coordinate the guidance publications that we produce in the Digital Curation Centre. I write some of them, though as it happens not the one that's probably most relevant to list members - Alex Ball, Monica Duke (2015). ‘How to Track the Impact of Research Data with Metrics’. (I've published on more general aspects of evaluating research data management services). 

 

At some point in the near future we'd like to publish examples of some approaches libraries are taking to track the usage and impacts of research data that's shared through their own or other repositories.

 

All the best,

 

Angus Whyte

 

 

 

On 21 March 2016 at 16:28, Elizabeth Gadd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

 

Following expressions of interest late last year, it is with great delight that I can now introduce your new Lis-Bibliometrics Committee. We are:

 

·         Nathalie Cornee, London School of Economics and Political Science

·         Sally Dalton, University of Leeds

·         Katie Evans, University of Bath

·         Elizabeth Gadd, Loughborough University

·         Stephen Grace, London South Bank University

·         Sam Gray, Manchester Metropolitan University

·         Ruth Harrison, Imperial College London

·         Michael Norris, Loughborough University

·         Charles Oppenheim, University of Northampton

·         Karen Rowlett, University of Reading

 

We met for the first time last week and have lots of interesting and exciting plans for the group.  Some of the feedback we had from the Lis-Bibliometrics survey last year related to members feeling uncertain about posting to the list because they were unsure who was ‘lurking’  and feared feeling foolish.  In attempt to overcome this, we would like to invite all Lis-Bibliometrics members to introduce themselves and ask about one thing you always wanted to know about bibliometrics but were afraid to ask!  Having met many of you at bibliometrics events over the past few years, I can reassure you that we’re a friendly bunch and are all feeling our way with this. 

 

To give you a taster of some of the things we have planned:

 

·         A Lis-bibliometrics blog with contributions from the community

·         A related resources page

·         An event (hopefully in June) around the theme of what it means to be a bibliometrician.

 

If you have any thoughts on these, or other suggestions, please let us know.

 

And finally, if you are a tweeter and ever tweet about bibliometric matters, why not use the hashtag #LisBibliometrics so we can develop a Twitter community too?

 

Looking forward to hearing your introductions!

 

All the best

 

Elizabeth Gadd MSc, MCLIP, FHEA

Research Policy Manager (Publications)

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Loughborough University

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