Prompting Open Access with Altmetrics: Lesson Learned April 28, 2015 Hui Zhang Digital Application Librarian Oregon State University Library
ScholarsArchive@OSU Dspace platform, highly customized, more than 50,000 digital objects ETD, open access articles, dataset
Project Motivations Prompting open access with value-added service Prompting new metrics for scholarly communication
Implementation Using Altmetric.com embedable badges Design parsing DOI/handle from metadata field making Altmetric badge visible only when the score is larger than zero Changes made to Dspace XMLUI navigation.xsl page-structure.xsl style.css
Library Outreach Notifying top authors whose articles having high altmetric score Providing workshops for faculty and graduate students on bibliometrics and altmetrics Writing a LibGuide introducing altmetrics
Faculty Feedbacks This is great! Interesting, but not sure especially for authors with articles having high altmetric score Interesting, but not sure seen in majority of the responses I do not care no response at all
Lessons and Thoughts A trust problem Thoughts number gaming data quality data providers Thoughts providing altmetrics data in addition to bibliometric prompting altmetrics with open movement need to address faculty concerns over trust
Questions? hui.zhang@oregonstate.edu or scholarsarchive@oregonstate.edu