1. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Open Access Publishing and Citation Rates: Getting Rewarded by Improving Access to Your Research Dr. Bruce Herbert, Director Office of Scholarly Communications

2. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Metrics of Scholarly Impact

3. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Key Texas A&M Vision 2020 Metrics ■ Research Expenditures ■ Federal Expenditures ■ Academy members ■ Faculty awards ■ Citations ■ Freshman Retention ■ 4 Year Graduation Rate ■ 6 Year Graduation Rate ■ Students with Pell Grants ■ % Underrepresented Students ResearchStudent Success

4. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Association of American Universities Membership Policies The members of AAU should be comprehensive universities distinguished by the disciplinary breadth and quality of their programs of graduate education and research. ■ Competitively funded federal research support ■ Membership in the National Academies (NAS, NAE, IOM) ■ Faculty awards, fellowships, and memberships ■ Citations: Thomson Reuters InCites TM citations (Web of Science) database Phase 1 Indicators ■ USDA, state, and industrial research funding ■ Doctoral education ■ Number of postdoctoral appointees ■ Undergraduate education Phase 2 Indicators

5. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries (Re)Claiming Your Narrative http://www.aaup.org/reports-and- publications/academe

6. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Users of Citation Data in Research Evaluation ■ What is the level of research activity and its impact? ■ What are the most recognized groups? ■ What are the characteristics of interdisciplinary scholarship? ■ What are the trends of College research?

7. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Bibliometrics Bibliometrics is the quantitative analysis of scholarly publications and their citations. Bibliometrics is used to evaluate three characteristics of scholarship: scholarly output scholarly impact structural and temporal features of scholarship

8. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Skewed Distribution of Publications and Citations

9. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Sources of Citations Data ■ Web of Science (library) ■ SCOPUS (library) ■ Google Scholar

10. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Alternative Metrics ■ Usage: clicks downloads, views, library holdings, video plays ■ Captures. Bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers ■ Mentions. Blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links ■ Social Media. +1s, likes, shares, tweets ■ Citations. Pubmed central. Scopus, Patents Can we identify other indicators of quality that support your scholarly narrative? https://plu.mx/

11. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Advancing Scholarly Reputation Through Open Access

12. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Emerging Issue: Open Access Open Access ■ Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions ■ Works are still covered by copyright law, but Open Access terms apply to allow sharing and reuse ■ All major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on the importance of peer review A movement in higher education to increase access to scholarly research and communication, not limiting it solely to subscribers or purchasers of works. http://sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access Texas A&M University A Land Grant, Space Grant, and Sea Grant Institution

13. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Emerging Issue: Open Access Federal Mandates For Public Access to Research Publication repositories Tools to create data management plans Data repositories (soon) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding- public-access-results-federally-funded-research The Library Supports: http://guides.library.tamu.edu/ DataManagement

14. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Impact of Open Access on Citation Rates The report: http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncommsreport2014.pdfhttp://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncommsreport2014.pdf The Research Information Network, a British research center, recently analyzed the distribution and impact of articles published in hybrid science journal Nature Communications.

15. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries OAK Fund: Funding Publication in OA Journals http://scholarlycommunication.library.tamu.edu/oak-fund/

16. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries OAK Trust: TAMU’s Institutional Repository http://repository.tamu.edu/

17. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Seeking Faculty Feedback: Developing Data Repository http://thedata.org// ■ Design a Texas Digital Library system ■ Use disciplinary repositories? ■ Needed policies: Embargoes Sensitive data ■ Ability to link to articles or cite data ■ Link graduate student data to ETDs in TAMU repository?

18. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries PIVOT Funding Database ■ Provides access to a comprehensive database of global source of funding opportunities ■ Pushes search results automatically to researchers via periodic email. Search results are guided by researcher profiles including keywords of interests and expertise. ■ Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office through group notification functions.

19. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers and scholars with their professional activities. 19 Emerging Issue: Identity & Reputation Scholarly Identity on the Internet Name ambiguity Discoverability within and across databases Author, grantee, and faculty record management Output tracking Research reporting and impact assessment

20. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Access Increases Institutional Impact http://youtu.be/wPn5XfhDOBE http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/

21. OFFICE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS Texas A&M University Libraries Recommendations ■ Analyze and use your citations ■ Workshop will be offered ■ Make scholarship and data available as open access. ■ Texas A&M’s institutional repository ■ Disciplinary open access repositories. ■ Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund can help pay for any publication fees ■ Claim your ORCID ■ Authors should retain copyright to their scholarly work so that the work can be repurposed and reused in new and innovative ways. ■ The library can work with Dean’s Offices to conduct bibliometric research at the organizational level to support strategic planning.