Describes the MyRI project which is a collaboration of 4 Irish academic libraries funded by NDLR the Irish learning objects repository initiative, which has produced an online tutorial and a suite of other learning materials for bibliometrics, all on Open Access

1. MyRI: An bibliometrics toolkit – collaboration in research skills support Ros Pan & Ellen Breen

2. The presentation – LILAC 2011 Introductory points and slides – 15 mins Demonstration of the online tutorial, a major project deliverable – 15 mins Promotional video – 3 mins Questions

3. Introductory slides

4. Bibliometrics is.. Bibliometrics is one of various quantitative measures widely used to assess research impact, based on analysis of publication and particularly citation counts Bibliometrics is being increasingly used at all levels: international and national benchmarking of universities and academic units within them; to assess particular research groups and their impact; and to assess individuals Some typical uses a major element in world university rankings is based on citation impact ranking of journals to decide where to publish individuals including metrics in their CVs and grant applications. It is not a method that currently works well for research areas that are not based principally on journal articles as their channel of publication but is nevertheless applied widely and so it is crucial that all researchers are aware of the basics of bibliometrics and the full range of data sources, metrics and tools

5. Various factors leading to the project A Libraries moving into higher end researcher support and bibliometrics is one such area B This new area of research skills support comes as library staffing and resourcing are declining – COLLABORATION is an obvious path to take c Bibliometrics skills are largely generic so lend themselves to collaboration NDLR LInCS projects are collaborative – at least 3 partners required

6. Academic libraries and units in partnership

7. Some project details Project is funded by NDLR (broadly equivalent to JORUM) under Learning Innovation Community Support Projects (LInCS) strand and we provide matching funding which is almost entirely from staff time. Well over 1,000 hours of staff time 10k grant – software, professional design of branding, video production by professional company, PR and launch items and promotion items, printing UCD, DIT, NUIM and DCU are the partners, UCD is the lead partner Original timeline was July – December 2010 but that was extended to end of March 2011 – these things take a fair amount of time if not full time We set out milestones and divided the work up into work packages each with a leader who then formed up their own teams, brought in other staff as required and had local meetings – a lot of staff involved in the project overall We have managed the project with the Basecamp online environment and that has been overall a good thing – milestones set out, messages, writeboards, filestores etc

8. Basecamp - an online environment helps with 4 partners

9. Work packages and leaders Set up in dSpace and create web page front end Ros Pan (project leader) Branding Mary Antonesa (Maynooth) Upload all existing materials across partners to assess Kathryn Smith (UCD) Online tutorial development Ellen Breen (DCU) Workshop & presentation items Ros Pan/Kathryn Smith (UCD) Computer Science materials Julia Barrett (UCD) Geography materials May Antonesa/Ciaran Quinn (Maynooth) Launch/PR/marketing Ros Pan (project leader)

11. Shared production of materials for shared used Open Access Use a model which is Granular i.e. in small units that you can put together as you want to Allow editing so you CAN add your own touches, take out things you don’t have access to, customise the examples and so on RLO Reusable Learning Objects concept is very important

12. The Open Access bibliometrics toolkit Workshop and presentation materials 70 items to pick and choose fromWorksheets, datasheets, posters, booklet, videosMost can be edited to suit local needsCreative Common license Materials forworkshops & presentations Online Tutorial BibliometricsToolkit Online tutorial OverviewJournal RankingPersonal bibliometricsArticulate used to create this tutorialRun HEAnet hosted version or download, customise and host locally Lesson plans Suggestions on how to pick materials and pressent them for different time periods and topics. Includes powerpoint slides Lesson Plans

13. Online tutorial look and feel

14. The online tutorial

15. Complementary print materials

16. Video content

17. Exhibition posters

18. The MyRI webpage – the main access route www.ndlr.ie/myri

19. dSpace presentation – the MyRI “Community”

20. The future User testing, feedback and adjustment Marketing and advocacy campaign over time Keep the material up to date – it is not task and finish! As we now realise.. Extend the bibliometrics toolkit in various directions – more subject tailored content Build on a collaborative approach to academic library information skills work in general, beyond this project - deliverables

21. Developing the Online Tutorial

23. Articulate Studio

24. Easy to use

25. Can create visually engaging content and interactions

27. Video Interviews Employed graduate students 6 interviewees 4 main interviews covered 3 questions 3.5 hours edited down to 11 short videos

28. Draft Build and Review MyRI Team Review User review Minor amendments (typos, links etc) Some suggestions not possible e.g. link between modules User feedback very positive

29. The online tutorial – Let’s take a look

30. Promotional video - 3 mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkx3qAmutDs

32. Final points There is a workshop built around this set of materials Exploring the extent of current re-use Discussing the challenges of re-purposing Open Access information skills learning objects Build various lessons out of the MyRI materials Wednesday, 2.20, Alumni Theatre at LSE We are sponsors of pre-conference dinner drinks – samples and freebies will be available then – Tuesday evening QUESTIONS….