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Open Access Publishing and Citation Rates:
Getting Rewarded by Improving Access to Your
Research
Dr. Bruce Herbert, Director
Office of Scholarly Communications
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Metrics of Scholarly Impact
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Key Texas A&M Vision 2020 Metrics
Research
Student Success
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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
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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.
Phase 1 Indicators
■ 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 2 Indicators
■ USDA, state, and industrial
research funding
■ Doctoral education
■ Number of postdoctoral
appointees
■ Undergraduate education
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(Re)Claiming Your Narrative
http://www.aaup.org/reports-andpublications/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 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
Bibliometrics
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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
Can we identify other indicators of quality that support your
scholarly narrative?
■ 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
https://plu.mx/
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Advancing Scholarly Reputation
Through Open Access
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Emerging Issue: Open Access
Open Access
A movement in higher education to increase access to scholarly research and
communication, not limiting it solely to subscribers or purchasers of works.
■ 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
http://sparc.arl.org/issues/open-access
Texas A&M University
A Land Grant, Space Grant, and
Sea Grant Institution
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Emerging Issue: Open Access
Federal Mandates For Public Access to Research
The Library Supports:
Publication repositories
Tools to create data
management plans
Data repositories (soon)
http://guides.library.tamu.edu/
DataManagement
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expandingpublic-access-results-federally-funded-research
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Impact of Open Access on
Citation Rates
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Frequency
The Research Information
Network, a British
research center, recently
analyzed the distribution
and impact of articles
published in hybrid
science journal Nature
Communications.
Median Frequency Use of Nature Communications
Articles
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30 day views 180 views
Subscription Articles
The report: http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncommsreport2014.pdf
30 day
180 day
downloads downloads
OA Articles
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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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Seeking Faculty Feedback:
Developing Data Repository
■ 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?
http://thedata.org//
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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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Emerging Issue: Identity & Reputation
Scholarly Identity on the Internet
The research community has
lacked the ability to link
researchers and scholars with
their professional activities.
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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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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.