A thoughtful and well-researched article that offers positive and negative quality indicators for evaluating open access journals for publishing considerations, while the authors caution against a "one-size fits all" approach and the importance of guiding faculty and researchers to make informed personal choices.

A review of a declaration signed by ACSB and other participants which urges consideration of research metrics beyond the journal impact factor.

Written by Joanna Ball, academic Services Manager, University of Sussex Library

A model from the Becker Medical Library at Washington University in St. Louis, to aid in tracking and documenting biomedical research impact through a series of impacts not limited to publication, with additional resources including a glossary, strategies for improving impact and a reference library.

"Published in October 2013, the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged in this growing field" (open access .pdf file)

"Conclusion. After accounting for other factors affecting citation rate, we find a robust citation benefit from open data, although a smaller one than previously reported. We conclude there is a direct effect of third-party data reuse that persists for years beyond the time when researchers have published most of the papers reusing their own data. Other factors that may also contribute to the citation benefit are considered. We further conclude that, at least for gene expression microarray data, a substantial fraction of archived datasets are reused, and that the intensity of dataset reuse has been steadily increasing since 2003."

Charles W. Bailey compiled this selective bibliography of research papers covering alternative impact measures, or "altmetrics," of scholarly work.

Attempts at gaming Google Scholar's metrics with fake papers, but frustrations reported with Scholar's lack of transparency

Implications of new federal directives for data sharing, privacy, compliance, access and good practices for libraries collaborating with researchers

A themed ISQ issue investigates what altmetrics means and goes on to highlight best practices.

A review of new scholarly publishing metrics and how they compare to traditional impact measures.

"a study is undertaken of a selection of papers from the fie ld of c ommunication, comparing the number of cit ations received with their 2.0 i ndicators. The results s how that the most cited articles within recent years also have significantly hi gher altmetric indicators. Next follows a review of the principal empirical studies undertaken, centering on the correlations between bibliometric and al ternative indicators. To conclude, the main limitations of altmetrics are highlighted , alongside a reflective consideration of the role altmetrics may play in capturing the impact of research in Web 2.0 platforms"

Project from 2012, collaboration of UKOLN, University of Bath and Microsoft Research "to assist institutions, research funders and researchers in growing the capability of their communities to perform data intensive research "

Slides and video available from May 28 event in Ghent

"led by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Institute, Fundar, Sunlight Foundation and the World Wide Web Foundation. It mission is to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best harness the opportunities created by opening government data."

Abstrat: "Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."

Survey of science librarians at ARL member institutions