Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

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.

good definitions of terms on p.11

call for sustaining funding models

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

best papers from IPRES Lisbon 2013

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