1. Prompting Open Access with Altmetrics: Lesson Learned
April 28, 2015
Hui Zhang
Digital Application Librarian
Oregon State University Library

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Dspace platform, highly customized, more than 50,000 digital objects ETD, open access articles, dataset

3. Project Motivations Prompting open access with value-added service
Prompting new metrics for scholarly communication

4. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Questions? hui.zhang@oregonstate.edu or