[EIFLoa] Webcast Invitation: Building New Measures for Impact: Article Level Metrics

[Iryna Kuchma]

[Forwarded message from Andrea Higginbotham]

***Apologies for cross-posting. Feel free to pass along this invite.

Building New Measures for Impact: Article Level Metrics
Another free SPARC online event
Thursday, April 12, 2012
12:00 - 1:00PM EST
Registration is free, but required. RSVP by April 10th at
http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=105.

In March 2009, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) became the first
publisher
to track transparent and  comprehensive information about the usage and
reach
of published articles  - rather than journals - so that the academic
community has
another avenue to help assess their value.  These measures  are called
"Article-Level
Metrics (ALMs),"  and currently include:

- Article Usage Statistics  - HTML pageviews, and PDF and XML downloads;
- Citations - From Web of Science, PubMed Central, Scopus, and Crossref:
- Social Bookmarks - currently from CiteULike and Connotea;
- Comments - left by article readers
- Notes  - also from readers
- Blog posts - aggregated from a variety of sources

A primary aim of Article Level Metrics is to provide the academic community
with new
ways to evaluate individual articles directly on their own merits, rather
than on the reputation
of the journal in which they happen to be published. As a result, Article
Level Metrics
hold the promise of helping new ways for measuring and evaluating research
quality -
and impact - to evolve.

On April12, please join us as we host Pete Binfield, Publisher of PLoS One,
for an
in-depth look at the the current status of Article Level Metrics, a
discussion of what
has been learned to date, and a glimpse into what is on the horizon for
their further
development and wider adoption.

To learn more about  in advance of the call, visit:
http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/

Building New Measures for Impact: Article Level Metrics
Another free SPARC online event
Thursday, April 12, 2012
12:00 - 1:00PM EST
Registration is free, but required. RSVP by April 10th at
http://sparc.arl.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=105.

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Andrea Higginbotham
Manager of Communications
SPARC
andrea at arl.org
(202) 296-2296 x121
Fax: (202) 872-0884
http://www.arl.org/sparc
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Open Access Week 2012
October 22 - 28
http://www.openaccessweek.org
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