Engaging researchers with altmetrics
Michelle WalkerMMiT September 2015
#mmit2015
Session Outline
• Context • Rationale• Feedback• Future potential developments • Your thoughts, ideas, actions
Are the tools working for you?Informing emerging conversations with
latest research
Supporting experimentation with
emerging tools
Engaging in early education / outreach
• Searching for your literature review • Maximising your research profile: how to be seen better • Measuring research performance • Copyright essentials for researchers • Mindmapping for researchers • Keeping up to date with new research• Open Access at Northumbria • Research and collaboration using web tools & social media
Traditional metrics
Photo credit: http://www.vads.ac.uk/results.php?cmd=search&words=NAP_4_3_13_19&mode=boolean&submit=search
Northumbria University - Research Support: The Essentials June 2015
“The way that publishing has been developing and
the need to let the wolrd(sic) know about my
outcomes”
How to monitor your impact as a researcher through citation alerts, altmetrics, ego searches, etc.
I found all the lesson very interesting in particoluar(sic) the parts of " Choosing a journal" and the using of the "social“ to promote our research.
“Reinforced what I thought I knew but was unsure of. Handout to accompany the session useful.”
“The examples of how staff at Northumbria had used different media, etc. it was relaly(sic) inspiring.”
Next steps
• Visits• Research metrics service• Collaboration with internal partnersPhoto credit: https://pixabay.com/en/step-steps-path-direction-shoes-163948/
Are the tools working for you?Informing emerging conversations with
latest research
Supporting experimentation with
emerging tools
Engaging in early education / outreach
• What stage are your researchers / institution at?• What do you do currently to support researchers
regarding altmetrics?• What would you like to do?Photo credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/King%27s_College_London_Students_Evacuated_To_Bristol%2C_England%2C_1940_D430.jpg
Over to you!
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