Altmetric for Institutions: Workshop activities Your altmetricexplorer.com Your name Job title

Aims of today’s session Familiar with using almetrics and digging into the qualitative elements Stimulate additional ideas for using altmetrics Hands-on practice using Altmetric for Institutions

Workshop plan Break up into groups We’ll do 3 exercises Spend 15 mins on each exercise: Explanation of scenario - All Work on exercise - Groups Discussion – Groups Questions

Things to keep in mind Altmetrics will never present the full picture or provide the entire answer – they are additional information to supplement your decision-making process Which altmetrics you use/are valuable varies depending on the objective of each research project Numbers provide a hint about where to look, the qualitative information is where the value lies The scenarios have been simplified for the purpose of this activity – real life is much more complex

Exercise 1: Grant application Role You are a researcher from your institution You are trying to secure grant funding As part of the application you have to demonstrate “broader impact” and “wide dissemination” outside of academia Scenario Using Altmetric for Institutions, select a researcher from your institution in the Explore my institution tab and Authors What information would you include in your grant application? Hint: Remember it’s not about numbers but qualitative stories demonstrate “broader impact” Instructions mins working in your groups

Exercise 2: Finding popular articles in a specific discipline Role You are Subject Specialist Librarian A researcher from your institution comes to you wanting help to find trending articles in his field He has RSS feeds, journal alerts, etc. set up but he’s concerned he’s missing research getting attention across areas they can’t track Scenario What additional information would you need from the researcher to provide useful information? How would you instruct them to use Altmetric for Institutions? Instructions mins working in your groups

Exercise 3 Role You are Director of Communications You’ve directed your team to highlight 1-2 articles a month featuring research of interest to the general public The team will do a press release and push via social media and the campus website Scenario Using Altmetric for Institutions, find 5 research outputs you would recommend highlighting for this month’s press release and why What are the different search criteria you would use to identify the outputs? Instructions mins working in your groups

Group discussion What did you find? What types of discussions around the research outputs did you identify by reading the mentions? How would you encourage researchers to disseminate their work online? What are the popular papers? What type of attention did they receive? What cautions/precautions would you recommend to others in using the data?

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