[Asis-standards] Fwd: NISO Releases Altmetrics Recommended Practice
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> Baltimore, MD - September 22, 2016 - The National Information Standards Organization has published NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001LoaQm5wvVKU1G_RhnGp3r0tggLTbBoEq2w2BT-U0heTFgR7-SKEf9nVfIZ2OPyIa19lTxEY9MCo0syLcOciBtKCxTBf95eR6sabG7eGuMxqpMoVpK6I0TAJKOLozB5ybDVthhnr60swkTVeexz7WZAUeGMj8ZhGXIWqih2IHJTU5OuD51JEoGoCp9ESTeibVQlIzeuzHcuL7Q28-5GwTzwMUgUyIQZqK5RqjXUzURQhQ-OgsLr8Cf6GkhHkR8fVEa3XisPoZ6CUbeKAf_RnoH4C-6jRZU30K_dku4EWpOvlcbAw7taX8zVs9yoiiHHtAlipUUZ63Nmk2x2sRjmWtCYlLPSGiECzXcG30NwFa1O4=&c=dJDxGZJRMPuIkAYuDH41wGdJUM63Svxarapiw8XU0lL7shEaIpBT7g==&ch=Af55sAmMC9sswXV4Xxk0PCkStqUcdYpHF91H26ZoQ72_8Kx0CJPVwg==>. This recommended practice on altmetrics, an expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of research in the knowledge environment, was developed by working groups that were part of NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The document outlines altmetrics definitions and use cases, alternative outputs in scholarly communications, data metrics, and persistent identifiers in scholarly communications. This guidance was necessary because, before the project began, scholars had long expressed dissatisfaction with traditional measures of success, such as the Impact Factor, but needed standards relating to other viable assessment methods.
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> Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project represents the culmination of work that began with brainstorming sessions in 2013 and that included multiple in-person and virtual meetings, a white paper, conference presentations that gathered community input, and votes on draft documents by NISO's voting membership. The effort built on NISO's strength as a consensus-seeking organization to bring multiple perspectives, nuances, and needs into one set of recommendations upon which the scholarly community can rely. Scholars will find that the recommended practice addresses high-level ideas, such as the need for guidance on altmetrics, but also provides granular information on such topics as how the various metrics-providing vendors generate their data. Users of metrics will also find templates for starting work at their own institutions, as the intent is for the recommended practice to make altmetrics more widely used and more approachable than previously. Institutions can begin to apply these new metrics with greater confidence in their development, data gathering, and application.
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> "NISO is proud to contribute to the advancement of new assessment forms that encourage extensions of scholarly communication forms and methods," said Executive Director Todd Carpenter. "Over the past three years, we have been able to bring together experts from throughout the scholarly publishing and assessment communities to expand the toolset available to review the impact of researchers' work. Consensus-building is always a challenging endeavor, but it is considerably more so in a domain that could influence important advancement, funding, and recognition decisions. The thoughts around altmetrics when we began this initiative in 2013 were only vaguely formed. It has been exciting to watch the project grow from very nascent understandings of altmetrics, to a place of greater understanding of just how rich altmetrics are and how they can be applied." Carpenter continued, "it's my hope that the recommendations that our working groups so carefully crafted will guide users toward optimal uses of the newly available data that can be such a benefit to their careers and institutions."
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> Euan Adie, Founder and CEO, Altmetric, commented that, "We had some misgivings at the beginning of the process [in 2013] as it seemed too early for stakeholders or providers to contribute in a meaningful way, but actually the results turned out to be sensible and useful. NISO very ably guided the process and I don't think the community could have pulled anything like this together without them. The market has responded very positively, and in my opinion what got produced is helping both the understanding and uptake of alternative metrics. Furthermore, from a supplier's perspective, the Data Quality Code of Conduct has been very useful to lay down ground rules for future product development."
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> "The NISO Altmetrics project was announced at a time when the field was still in a very active stage of development," noted Mike Taylor, formerly Senior Product Manager, Informetrics, Elsevier, and now Head of Metrics Development, Digital Science. "Despite that," he observed, "the project enabled experts in the community to have structured conversations around (a) what work was in a sufficiently mature state to publish recommendations, (b) what emerging behavior and research outputs were sufficiently similar to existing ones to 'borrow' standards, (c) what indicators about data quality could be usefully published, and (d) tackling some of the issues of emerging vocabulary." Taylor continued, "For me, one of the important outcomes was the opportunity to link many diverse and unconnected working groups into a developing network of stakeholders. There will be much future work to emerge from this network."
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From: NISO <[1]nisohq at niso.org>
Subject: NISO Releases Altmetrics Recommended Practice
Date: September 22, 2016 at 9:58:30 AM EDT
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NISO Releases Altmetrics Recommended Practice
Baltimore, MD - September 22, 2016 - The National Information Standards
Organization has published [4]NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the NISO
Alternative Assessment Project. This recommended practice on altmetrics, an
expansion of the tools available for measuring the scholarly impact of
research in the knowledge environment, was developed by working groups that
were part of NISO's Altmetrics Initiative, a project funded by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation. The document outlines altmetrics definitions and use
cases, alternative outputs in scholarly communications, data metrics, and
persistent identifiers in scholarly communications. This guidance was
necessary because, before the project began, scholars had long expressed
dissatisfaction with traditional measures of success, such as the Impact
Factor, but needed standards relating to other viable assessment methods.
Outputs of the NISO Alternative Assessment Project represents the
culmination of work that began with brainstorming sessions in 2013 and that
included multiple in-person and virtual meetings, a white paper, conference
presentations that gathered community input, and votes on draft documents by
NISO's voting membership. The effort built on NISO's strength as a
consensus-seeking organization to bring multiple perspectives, nuances, and
needs into one set of recommendations upon which the scholarly community can
rely. Scholars will find that the recommended practice addresses high-level
ideas, such as the need for guidance on altmetrics, but also provides
granular information on such topics as how the various metrics-providing
vendors generate their data. Users of metrics will also find templates for
starting work at their own institutions, as the intent is for the
recommended practice to make altmetrics more widely used and more
approachable than previously. Institutions can begin to apply these new
metrics with greater confidence in their development, data gathering, and
application.
"NISO is proud to contribute to the advancement of new assessment forms that
encourage extensions of scholarly communication forms and methods," said
Executive Director Todd Carpenter. "Over the past three years, we have been
able to bring together experts from throughout the scholarly publishing and
assessment communities to expand the toolset available to review the impact
of researchers' work. Consensus-building is always a challenging endeavor,
but it is considerably more so in a domain that could influence important
advancement, funding, and recognition decisions. The thoughts around
altmetrics when we began this initiative in 2013 were only vaguely formed.
It has been exciting to watch the project grow from very nascent
understandings of altmetrics, to a place of greater understanding of just
how rich altmetrics are and how they can be applied." Carpenter continued,
"it's my hope that the recommendations that our working groups so carefully
crafted will guide users toward optimal uses of the newly available data
that can be such a benefit to their careers and institutions."
Euan Adie, Founder and CEO, Altmetric, commented that, "We had some
misgivings at the beginning of the process [in 2013] as it seemed too early
for stakeholders or providers to contribute in a meaningful way, but
actually the results turned out to be sensible and useful. NISO very ably
guided the process and I don't think the community could have pulled
anything like this together without them. The market has responded very
positively, and in my opinion what got produced is helping both the
understanding and uptake of alternative metrics. Furthermore, from a
supplier's perspective, the Data Quality Code of Conduct has been very
useful to lay down ground rules for future product development."
"The NISO Altmetrics project was announced at a time when the field was
still in a very active stage of development," noted Mike Taylor, formerly
Senior Product Manager, Informetrics, Elsevier, and now Head of Metrics
Development, Digital Science. "Despite that," he observed, "the project
enabled experts in the community to have structured conversations around (a)
what work was in a sufficiently mature state to publish recommendations, (b)
what emerging behavior and research outputs were sufficiently similar to
existing ones to 'borrow' standards, (c) what indicators about data quality
could be usefully published, and (d) tackling some of the issues of emerging
vocabulary." Taylor continued, "For me, one of the important outcomes was
the opportunity to link many diverse and unconnected working groups into a
developing network of stakeholders. There will be much future work to emerge
from this network."
About NISO
NISO, based in Baltimore, Maryland, fosters the development and maintenance
of standards that facilitate the creation, persistent management, and
effective interchange of information so that it can be trusted for use in
research and learning. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire lifecycle of information
standards. NISO is a not-for-profit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the [5]NISO
website.
For More Information, Contact:
Nettie Lagace
NISO
Phone: 301-654-2512
Email [6]Nettie Lagace
NISO | (301) 654-2512 | [7]nisohq at niso.org | [8]www.niso.org
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