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Open Access Publishing and Citation Rates:

Getting Rewarded by Improving Access to Your Research

Dr. Bruce Herbert, DirectorOffice of Scholarly Communications

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Metrics of Scholarly Impact

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Key Texas A&M Vision 2020 Metrics

■ Research Expenditures■ Federal Expenditures■ Academy members■ Faculty awards■ Citations

■ Freshman Retention■ 4 Year Graduation Rate■ 6 Year Graduation Rate■ Students with Pell Grants■% Underrepresented

Students

Research Student Success

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Association of American Universities Membership Policies

The members of AAU should be comprehensive universities distinguished by the disciplinary breadth and quality of their programs of graduate education and research.

■ Competitively funded federal research support

■ Membership in the National Academies (NAS, NAE, IOM)

■ Faculty awards, fellowships, and memberships

■ Citations: Thomson Reuters InCitesTM citations (Web of Science) database

Phase 1 Indicators■ USDA, state, and industrial

research funding■ Doctoral education■ Number of postdoctoral

appointees■ Undergraduate education

Phase 2 Indicators

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(Re)Claiming Your Narrative

http://www.aaup.org/reports-and-publications/academe

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Users of Citation Data in Research Evaluation

■What is the level of research activity and its impact?

■What are the most recognized groups?

■What are the characteristics of interdisciplinary scholarship?

■What are the trends of College research?

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Bibliometrics

Bibliometrics is the quantitative analysis of scholarly publications and their citations.

Bibliometrics is used to evaluate three characteristics of scholarship:

• scholarly output• scholarly impact• structural and temporal

features of scholarship

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Skewed Distribution of Publications and Citations

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Sources of Citations Data

■Web of Science (library)

■ SCOPUS (library)■Google Scholar

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Alternative Metrics

■ Usage: clicks downloads, views, library holdings, video plays

■ Captures. Bookmarks, code forks, favorites, readers, watchers

■ Mentions. Blog posts, comments, reviews, Wikipedia links

■ Social Media. +1s, likes, shares, tweets

■ Citations. Pubmed central. Scopus, Patents

Can we identify other indicators of quality that support your scholarly narrative?

https://plu.mx/

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Advancing Scholarly Reputation Through Open Access

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Emerging Issue: Open Access

Open Access

■ Open Access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

■ Works are still covered by copyright law, but Open Access terms apply to allow sharing and reuse

■ All major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on the importance of peer review

A movement in higher education to increase access to scholarly research and communication, not limiting it solely to subscribers or purchasers of works.

http://sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access

Texas A&M UniversityA Land Grant, Space Grant, and

Sea Grant Institution

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Texas A&M University Libraries Emerging Issue: Open AccessFederal Mandates For Public Access to Research

Publication repositories

Tools to create data management plans

Data repositories (soon)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research

The Library Supports:

http://guides.library.tamu.edu/DataManagement

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Texas A&M University Libraries Impact of Open Access on Citation Rates

The report: http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncommsreport2014.pdf

The Research Information Network, a British research center, recently analyzed the distribution and impact of articles published in hybrid science journal Nature Communications.

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OAK Fund: Funding Publication in OA Journals

http://scholarlycommunication.library.tamu.edu/oak-fund/

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OAK Trust: TAMU’s Institutional Repository

http://repository.tamu.edu/

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Texas A&M University Libraries Seeking Faculty Feedback:

Developing Data Repository

http://thedata.org//

■ Design a Texas Digital Library system

■ Use disciplinary repositories?■ Needed policies:

• Embargoes• Sensitive data

■ Ability to link to articles or cite data■ Link graduate student data to ETDs

in TAMU repository?

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PIVOT Funding Database

■ Provides access to a comprehensive database of global source of funding opportunities

■ Pushes search results automatically to researchers via periodic email. Search results are guided by researcher profiles including keywords of interests and expertise.

■ Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office through group notification functions.

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The research community has lacked the ability to link researchers and scholars with their professional activities.

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Emerging Issue: Identity & Reputation

Scholarly Identity on the Internet

• Name ambiguity• Discoverability within and across databases• Author, grantee, and faculty record management• Output tracking• Research reporting and impact assessment

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Access Increases Institutional Impact

http://youtu.be/wPn5XfhDOBE

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/

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Texas A&M University Libraries Recommendations■ Analyze and use your citations

■Workshop will be offered ■ Make scholarship and data available as open access.

■ Texas A&M’s institutional repository■Disciplinary open access repositories.■Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund can help pay for any publication fees

■ Claim your ORCID■ Authors should retain copyright to their scholarly work so that the work can be

repurposed and reused in new and innovative ways. ■ The library can work with Dean’s Offices to conduct bibliometric research at the

organizational level to support strategic planning.