Is what's 'trending' what¹s worth purchasing?
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Is what’s “trending” what’s worth purchasing?: Insights from a national study of collection development librarians Sarah W. Sutton, Emporia State University SLIM Rachel Miles, Kansas State University Libraries Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric LLP June 2016 NASIG 2016, Albuquerque, NM
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Is what’s “trending” what’s worth purchasing?:
Insights from a national study of collection development librarians
Sarah W. Sutton, Emporia State University SLIM
Rachel Miles, Kansas State University Libraries
Stacy Konkiel, Altmetric LLP
June 2016NASIG 2016, Albuquerque, NM
Sarah Sutton
This is not critical! I'm just checking to be sure we've got the right source info in our notes. [email protected] I don't see this stacked bar chart in the data source you've got here, would you please check it when you have time?
Traditional metrics -> Web-native metrics• Journal impact factor• Citation counts• Usage statistics• Altmetrics
What are altmetrics?
The volume and nature of attention that research receives online.
How often are people talking, what’s being said, and who is saying it?
@jeandraws
Lots of speculation, little evidence
Study design• Survey of 13,436 librarians at 150 Carnegie-classified
“R1” institutions in the US• Direct email (manually collected)• 707 respondents (5.3% response rate)
• Collected answers via Qualtrics• Data analysis via Qualtrics and SPSS
Demographics
Years on the job
(n=438)
Familiarity with metricsAmong collection development librarians
& as compared to those who aren’tDo years of experience affect familiarity?Does tenure status affect familiarity?
Sarah Sutton
There's a box that says "plot area" in the middle of this graph, can it be removed?
Relationships between familiarity with metrics and experience & tenure status• Years of experience do not affect familiarity with
metrics.
• Tenure status affects familiarity with usage statistics, citation counts, and Journal Impact Factor.
• Tenure status does not affect familiarity with altmetrics.
Use of metricsFor collection developmentFactors affecting frequency of use
Sarah Sutton
Not critical! [email protected] would you please check to be the image source is correct in the notes for this slide?
Factors affecting the frequency of use of metrics• Years of experience• Tenure status• Job responsibilities
Frequency of use unaffected by...• Tenure status• Years of experience (unconfirmed)
• Having regular scholarly communication support duties• Having instruction duties (for usage statistics)
Tools for collecting metrics
Other websites or databases all librarians use to compile evidence of research impacts
add here results from the “other” textbox - create a wordle
Stacy Konkiel
Sorry to do this--but I realized that this text isn't the cleaned up text (Publish or Perish appears more than once, as both PoP and Harzing's Publish). Can you redo the wordle using the text from Column N in that spreadsheet, [email protected] ? That's been cleaned up and standardized a bit, and will give a better sense of relative use. Thanks!
Sarah Sutton
[email protected] [email protected] I tried to re-do the Wordle (just to keep Rachel from having so much to do on Sunday) but I can't make it work on my laptop either. Is it a MacBook thing? Anyway, Rachel if you don't mind this still needs to be done.
Takeaways: Familiarity with metrics
• Familiarity with and use of metrics are linked.• Librarians report greater familiarity with traditional
metrics.• No relationship between years of experience and
familiarity with metrics. • Familiarity with traditional metrics is related to tenure
status.• Familiarity with altmetrics is not related to tenure
status.
Takeaways: Use of metrics
• Journal Usage Factor and usage statistics most likely to be used for collection development.• Altmetrics least likely to be used for collection
development.• Use of metrics is related to having regular
responsibilities for scholarly communication.• Years of experience unrelated use of metrics.
Takeaways: Tools for collecting metrics
• WoS reigns supreme for citation metrics.• Altmetric is most used tool for altmetrics.
Future work• Additional surveys & interviews with US librarians• Similar survey of librarians on an international scale• Investigate relationships between Open Access and
altmetrics• Examine P&T documents
Sarah W. Sutton, [email protected] Konkiel, [email protected]
Rachel Miles, [email protected]
Thank you!
Questions?
