[Asis-l] MESUR For Measure: MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources

[gerrymck]

*Colleagues/*

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*Among the  projects featured in a previous blog posting in my Scholarship
2.0 blog was the MESUR project. Recently I blogged a full profile of MESUR
that includes a project description"*

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*"The project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the
assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of
scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project has created
a semantic model of the scholarly communication process, and an associated
large-scale semantic store that relates a range of bibliographic, citation
and usage data obtained from a variety of sources.*

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*After mapping the structure of the scholarly community on the basis of the
established reference data set, MESUR will conduct an investigation into the
definition and validation of a range of usage-based metrics. The defined
metrics will be cross-validated, resulting in the formulation of guidelines
and recommendations.*

*MESUR Database*

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*The MESUR data base now contains 1B usage events (2002-2007) obtained from
6 significant publishers, 4 large institutional consortia and 4 significant
aggregators! The collected usage data spans more than 100,000 serials
(including newspapers, magazines, etc.) and is related to journal citation
data that spans about 10,000 journals and nearly 10 years (1996-2006). In
addition we have obtained significant publisher-provided COUNTER usage
reports that span nearly 2000 institutions worldwide."*

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*[more]*

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*as well as links to Quick Facts, Documentation, and Publications, and the
original blog posting about MESUR and two other initiatives [Final Impact:
What Factors Really Matter?] ('Related') *

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*The full description as well as links to the aforementioned resources are
available at *

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*[ http://tinyurl.com/a3v7q3 ]*

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*Enjoy!*

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*/Gerry *

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* Gerry McKiernan***

*Associate Professor***

*Science and Technology Librarian***

*Iowa State University Library***

*Ames IA 50011***

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*gerrymck at iastate.edu ***

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