Academic librarian's experience with utilizing various metrics as a barometer for deciding what to order and what to cancel in library collections.

1. Altmetrics & Scholarly
Publishing:
The Library Lay of the Land
Elaine Lasda, MLS, CAS
Associate Librarian, University at Albany
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
June 1, 2017

2. The Bleeding Edge

3. My Institution

4. Maximizing
Research
Impact

5. Usage Metrics

6. The Death of the Big Deal?

7. The Open Access Factor

8. Library Collection Development

9. The role of metrics in general

10. The role of Altmetrics

11. References
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39:56-61.
•Michalek, Andrea, et al. (2014). Analyze this: Altmetrics and your collection. Statistics and
collection development. Against the grain, 4/2014: 80-81.
•Mock, Emily. (2017) “Problems with Collection Usage Statitstics.” University at Albany Libraries
internal memorandum, May 25, 2017.
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citations and downloads. Scientometrics, 111:1533-1545.

12. Image credits (in order of appearance):
• Francebluebird Photography, 2017. LOUGH FOOEY. https://flic.kr/p/TpG49G (CC
BY-NC-ND 2.0)
• Thompson, Devlin, 2008. Mystery Edge box. https://flic.kr/p/5nQJeG (CC BY-NC-
ND 2.0)
• Ferencak, Daniel, 2012. BROKY. https://flic.kr/p/bMm36e (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
• PAPELMURAL.COM, 2013. Fotomural163. https://flic.kr/p/kYreqV (CC BY 2.0)
• Frahm, Britta, 2007. Good-Bad-Ugly. https://flic.kr/p/LdyjL (CC BY 2.0)
• David, 2007. Deal? https://flic.kr/p/CauvW (CC BY-ND 2.0)
• 2016. Open Access Logo http://www.openaccessweek.org/page/englishhigh-
resolution-1
• Clede, Jonathan, 2006. Scholarly Journal. https://flic.kr/p/hAEmP (CC BY 2.0)
• Dalziel, Karin, 2007. 100 feet of tape measure. https://flic.kr/p/MjCWp (CC BY-NC
2.0)

13. Elaine M. Lasda, MLS, CAS
University at Albany Libraries
Email: elasda@albany.edu
Twitter: @ElaineLibrarian
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