Authors Maddie Hare, Heather Woods, Isabelle Dorsch, Carey Ming-Li Chen, and Stefanie Haustein, discuss their groundbreaking work on the Metrics Literacies Project. The Metrics Literacies project is informed by this concept: 'an integrated set of competencies, dispositions and knowledge that empowers individuals to recognize, interpret, critically assess and effectively and ethically use scholarly metrics,' which is guided …
Upcoming Webinar: The Research Landscape: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Workshop
Start a conversation about Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the research landscape with LIS-Bibliometrics Committee members, Sheila Craft-Morgan and Nicola Wylie, LIS-Bibliometrics EDI Officers, and invited guest Janne Pölönen, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fa1367c9-b942-427d-b791-583350cb501f@9c9bcd11-977a-4e9c-a9a0-bc734090164a Silhouettes People Group. Image from Pixabay. Event Details What is the role of librarians to ensure that the scholarly …
Introducing the new responsible use guide: Using Altmetric Data Responsibly: A Guide to Interpretation and Best Practice
Rachel Miles, lead author of the guide, discusses some key points from the new Using Altmetric Data Responsibly guide, which is now added to the collection of Responsible Use Guides from the LIS-Bibliometrics Community. This guide focuses specifically on data and attention sources from the altmetrics data provider, Altmetric. Altmetric, owned by Digital Science, is …
The Leiden Ranking goes beyond ranking
Today the CWTS Leiden Ranking and the INORMS More Than Our Rank initiative announce a new partnership, aimed at highlighting the accomplishments of universities beyond what is captured in university rankings. This blog post originally appeared on Leiden Madtrics and has been reposted here for redistribution and sharing purposes. The CWTS Leiden Ranking has always been a …
‘Why I signed DORA’
Liam Bullingham and Nicola Wylie report on an event focusing on the individual signers of DORA. Let’s focus on people Recent discussion on DORA mostly concerns the 2,800 organisations (e.g. universities, funders or publishers) which have signed, not the 20,000 individuals. See positions like, ‘Why have Elsevier committed to Leiden but not DORA?’, ‘We as …
The Bibliomagician 