Dear Rosarie & LIS-Bibliometrics,
I am very late to this email thread. I have been on maternity leave and am
just now returning this week. I wanted to let you know that Virginia Tech
has formed a couple of groups recently that have overlapped. I started my
position, which is newly created, in September last year, and one of my
goals was to form a working group and to eventually approach Faculty Senate
(FS) about surveying the faculty on how their research is assessed. Things
took off faster than expected, and after forming the group, I was
approached by someone who is chairing a new FS committee on the assessment
of faculty research/scholarship. We found out we had the same ideas and
goals, and so I designed the rough draft of a survey right before my
daughter was born and my maternity leave started. It had to go through
edits from the committee and our internal working group and then
approval/exemption from the IRB, so it just got distributed last week. I
will be analyzing the results of the survey next week. Essentially, this
online survey asks:
- The types of methods and practices faculty employ when assessing their
research
- Why they use these methods and practices (i.e., is it to satisfy their
own curiosity? Is it for tenure and promotion? and so on)
- What types of metrics and profile systems they use
There's more to the survey than the bullets listed, but this gives a
general overview. In addition to surveying the faculty, the internal
library working group will be evaluating research assessment products
currently in use at Virginia Tech, which include:
- Products
- Scopus / SciVal / Funding Institutional
- Web of Science / InCites
- 1Findr
- (Dimensions - free version)
- Things to evaluate
- What content / disciplines do they cover
- What metrics are included and what are the methodologies
- How transparent is each in describing their content sourcing,
metric creation
- How user-friendly are they - for individual authors / for dept
level reporting / for institutional information / etc.
Our groups and projects are still really new and just starting, but I'd
thought I share this! It would be useful to know what other librarians and
institutions have found doing similar projects.
Sincerely,
Rachel
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Rachel Miles
Research Impact Librarian
Research Collaboration & Engagement
Virginia Tech University Libraries
(540) 231-7469
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:53 PM Day, Justin <
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> Hi Monica,
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> I will not be at ALA this year. I may go to the Transforming Research
> <http://www.transformingresearch.org/> conference. I attended two years
> ago and it was very relevant and filled with a community of people in this
> area. This year’s program looks engaging.
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> *Justin Day*, MLIS
> PubCenter Senior Research Librarian
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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> *From:* A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research
> Community <[log in to unmask]> *On Behalf Of *Ihli, Monica
> (Monica)
> *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2019 9:33 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?
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> Hi Justin,
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> Thank you for sharing your report. As a bibliometrics researcher and
> librarian at a university in close proximity to one of these labs, I've
> heard some about the work being done in this area. It will be interesting
> to see a little more from the agency-level view of what research metrics
> goals and strategies should be. It seems to me that one of the challenges
> of a national research metrics strategy for the U.S. is that the federal
> agencies are highly autonomous, in addition to the circumstances of the
> funding environment.
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> Do you or any of your group plan on being at ALA this year? It would be
> nice to to meet some folks in the U.S. who work in this area.
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> *Monica Ihli*
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> *Assistant Professor & Librarian*
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> *Liaison to ORNL, Joint Institutes, & Interdisciplinary PhD Programs*
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> *University of Tennessee Libraries*
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> *From:* A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research
> Community <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Day, Justin <
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> *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2019 11:50 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?
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> Hello,
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> I lead a working group too, but of representatives (usually one librarian
> and one performance group representative) from each of the five U.S.
> Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories that are contractually-run
> partially or wholly by Battelle Memorial Institute. (This is a subset of
> the 18 labs in the DOE system.) We came together to discuss the Snowball
> Metrics framework, and how we could employ it in each lab’s practices of
> measuring the performance of its publications. We call our working group
> the Battelle Snowball Metrics Working Group (highly inventive name, I
> know!). We’ve been around for almost two years. The effort started out of
> my work and Lab.
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> Our report is available to the public at the DOE’s publications hub called
> OSTI.GOV. Here is the URL for the landing page:
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> https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1462196-implementing-snowball-metrics-battelle-affiliated-doe-national-laboratories
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> We selected a small number of metrics, and tailored the recipes so they
> fit with the tools, document types, time periods, and use that is relevant
> to these Labs. Each lab is different because of its science missions,
> budget, staff size, and available tools (among other factors), which made
> this effort a very interesting one. There was a lot of diversity of thought
> and practice that we discussed. It is a meaty report, but we wanted our
> audience (who has little or presumed knowledge of these metrics) to
> understand exactly how to use these metrics and the circumstances under
> which the data should be interpreted.
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> I’m available to respond to feedback and questions, although my response
> may be delayed. Thanks for your patience.
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> Cheers,
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> *Justin Day*, MLIS
> PubCenter Senior Research Librarian
> Communications & IT Directorate
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> *From:* A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research
> Community <[log in to unmask]> *On Behalf Of *Gray, Andrew
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:10 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?
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> Hi Rosarie,
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> We have a working group on metrics, formally under the library, which was
> established 2013 - I’ve attached TORs with the names of members removed. It
> currently has about equal numbers of librarians, research
> support/administration people, and researchers, plus a postgraduate student
> representative.
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> The focus of the working group is on high-level overview of what we do
> with metrics, setting guidelines for responsible use, etc. We’re also
> planning to form a broader and more informal group – a sort of “metrics
> community of practice” – which would bring together people who’re actually
> doing metrics-oriented work on a day-to-day basis to help provide shared
> support – this would probably be a bit closer to what you’re thinking of.
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> InCites is available to everyone at the university, though we don’t
> promote it very much and so in practice it’s not widely used. We’re now a
> bit more confident in being able to offer support for it, which hadn’t been
> as practical in the past, so we’re planning to start promoting it more in
> the near future.
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> Hope this helps,
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> Andrew.
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> Andrew Gray
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> Bibliometrics Support Officer
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> UCL Library Services
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> Telephone 020 7679 2363 [internal: 32363]
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> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/research-support/bibliometrics
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> *From:* A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research
> Community <[log in to unmask]> *On Behalf Of *Rosarie
> Coughlan
> *Sent:* 11 February 2019 19:32
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> *Subject:* Do you have a research metrics group on campus?
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> Hello there,
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> Here at Queen’s University (Canada) we have recently taken out a
> subscription to InCites and are in the early stages of formulating a group
> to look at this tool and the area of research metrics more broadly.
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> Do you have a research impacts / metrics-type group on campus, if so,
> would you be willing to share your ToRs and any information about uses and
> approaches to InCites (who is using it, how do you manage access (is it IP
> and open to all) and what services do you provide?
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> Many thanks in advance!
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> Rosarie
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