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
Libraries moving
into higher end
researcher
support and This new area of
bibliometrics is research skills support
one such area comes as library
staffing and resourcing Bibliometrics skills are
are declining – largely generic so lend
COLLABORATION is an themselves to
obvious path to take 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 Branding
web page front end
Ros Pan (project leader) Mary Antonesa (Maynooth)
Upload all existing materials Online tutorial development
across partners to assess
Ellen Breen (DCU)
Kathryn Smith (UCD)
Workshop & presentation Computer Science materials
items
Ros Pan/Kathryn Smith (UCD) Julia Barrett (UCD)
Geography materials Launch/PR/marketing
May Antonesa/Ciaran Quinn Ros Pan (project leader)
(Maynooth)

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 from
Materials for Worksheets,
workshops & datasheets,
Online presentations posters, booklet,
Tutorial videos
Bibliometrics
Most can be edited
Online tutorial Toolkit
to suit local needs
Overview
Journal Ranking Creative Common
Personal bibliometrics license
Articulate used to create Lesson Lesson plans
this tutorial Plans Suggestions on how to
pick materials and
Run HEAnet hosted pressent them for
version or download, different time periods
customise and host and topics.
locally Includes powerpoint
slides

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

22. Software Platform?
•Web‐based…..use existing
template?
•Articulate Studio
•Easy to use
•Can create visually engaging
content and interactions
•Training available

23. Content Development

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

25. 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

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

27. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkx3qAmutDs
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO ‐ 3 MINS

29. Final points before demo
• 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….