Just over five years ago the concept of altmetrics was minted. For libraries and librarians this has brought a new plethora of opportunities. In the first place there is the traditional extension role. Outreach opportunities on the subject of altmetrics are manyfold, and librarians could seize the opportunity to become the general information source on altmetrics within their institution. The second area of involvement is the collection and aggregation of altmetric indicators, from single publication to collections of papers on subjects or scientists, departments, faculties or the university as whole. It goes without saying that collecting the indicators is coupled to interpretation and explanation as well. The third component of the altmetric opportunities for libraries are what I call then groundwork. Preparation of the institution's output in such a way that altmetric indicators are easily collected. This means that we should assist researches wherever possible with obtaining their ORCiD and making sure that all output in electronic form has persistent identifiers, this is especially true for the grey literature of the university. Think of all the e-theses, working documents, report series and data sets. Collaboration with printing offices et cetera to organize the issue of DOI's are therefore essential. Having permanent identifiers for these publication will improve their dissemination, increase the citability of those publications, and make it more easy to demonstrate their impact. We should avoid the trap of collecting altmetric indicators of only peer reviewed journal articles since they come easy to use. The ultimate challenge for libraries is to collect altmetric indicators for all output of the university, as managers of the institutional bibliography, libraries are well places to play a pivotal role in the altmetric landscape.

1. WOUTER GERRITSMA, VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM
@WOWTER
ALTMETRIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR
LIBRARIES

2. CONTENTS
• The Library as the natural place for Altmetrics
Major library roles
• Outreach
• Collecting
• Groundwork
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3. WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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4. WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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5. WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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6. WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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7. WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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8. WHERE RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS
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9. RESEARCHERS COME ACROSS ALTMETRICS IN LIBRARY
RELATED PRODUCTS
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10. LIBRARY OUTREACH : WHAT ARE ALTMETRICS
• Know the subject of Altmetrics
• Start small, gain experience
• Altmetrics ≠ twitter mentions, facebook likes
• But the connection to social networks is important to
make
• For researchers their publication list is their
fundamental social network
• Share your presentations and experience, they are the
ticket for your subsequent presentation
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11. COLLECTING ALTMETRICS
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12. INTEGRATION WITH THE CRIS
Current Research Information System
• One of the important source systems at the campus,
specialized in collecting publication information
• Closely integrated with the institutional repository
• Leave out the C
Institutional Bibliography
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13. INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
Collecting publication information
• Collecting for the sake of collecting, has no purpose
• Collecting for reporting only, has no purpose
The fun part is in the analysis
• Bibliometrics
• Altmetrics
• Collaboration analysis
• Collection analysis
• Visualizations
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14. COLLECTING AND ANALYZING
Librarians need new skill sets
Get your CRIS in good shape
For the analytics, there are commercial providers
Bibliometrics: InCites, SciVal in NL: CWTS monitor
Altmetrics:
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15. COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF OUTPUT
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Scholarly publications
Peer reviewed articles 5347
Non-refereed articles 146
Books 100
Book sections 666
PhD Theses 383
Conference contributions 414
Professional publications
Articles 584
Books 36
Book sections 109
Annotations 144
Conference contributions 33
Reports 261
Popular publications
Books 12
Book sections 33
Magazine article 253

16. PREPARE THE UNIVERSITY OUTPUT FOR METRICS
• Support researchers with their ORCiD
• Assign permanent, citable, identifiers to grey output
• Theses
• Working papers
• Reports
• Conference contributions
DOI is the only realistic option
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17. 2 WARNINGS
• Don’t collect metrics for peer reviewed articles only
• Don’t concentrate on the best predictor for citations
But
Have a basket full of metrics,
to let them tell stories about their research
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18. Universiteitsbibliotheek VU
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