FW: [nfais-l] NFAIS Metrics Workshop Next Week: Register now!

[Eugene Garfield]

FYI

 

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[mailto:nfais-l at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Lawlor
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:30 PM
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Subject: [nfais-l] NFAIS Metrics Workshop Next Week: Register now!

 

Reminder:  NFAIS Workshop on Assessing the Usage and Value of Scholarly
and Scientific Output: An Overview of Traditional and Emerging Metrics
Scheduled for Next Week

 

The NFAIS one-day workshop, Assessing the Usage and Value of Scholarly
and Scientific Output: An Overview of Traditional and Emerging Metrics
will take place on November 10, 2010. Experts from around the globe will
gather in Philadelphia, PA to discuss the new methods that are becoming
increasingly important for measuring the usage and value of scholarly
and scientific content, including large scientific data sets, and how
those measures complement the more traditional, well-known approaches.
Registrations for virtual and onsite attendance are still available.

 

The meeting will open with Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist, EBSCO
Information Services, providing a look at what's new with Project
COUNTER and SUSHI.  He will be followed by Ross MacIntyre, Senior
Manager, Mimas, University of Manchester, UK, who will describe a
relatively new initiative, PIRUS 2,that takes COUNTER statistics down to
the article level. Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, National
Information Standards Organization (NISO), will provide an update on
Project MESUR, and Dr. Robert D. Chen, Secretary-General, CODATA and
Director, CIESIN, Columbia University and Dr. Robert Downs, Senior
Digital Archivist, CIESIN, Columbia University, will describe the
challenges of accessing, preserving, and citing large datasets.

 

Dr. Jevin West, University of Washington, will open the afternoon
session with a discussion of the Eigenfactor, an alternative/complement
to the more widely-known journal impact factor.  He will be followed
Ashlea Higgs, Elsevier, who will talk about a new indicator of journal
citation impact, denoted as source normalized impact per paper (SNIP).
Dr. Peter Binfield, Public Library of Science, will describe the article
level metrics that are currently offered by PLoS, and Jeff Dougherty,
Thomson Reuters Healthcare & Science, will talk about the traditional
and proven citation approach to measuring usage and value with a look at
citation indexes, journal metrics and the impact factor.

 

In closing, both a librarian, Joseph Zucca, Director of Planning and
Communication, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and a publisher,
Jonathan Morgan, Assistant Director, Web Strategy and Innovation,
American Chemical Society, will discuss the metrics that they use to
measure value and usage and how they apply those metrics to key
decisions within their organizations.

 

The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location,
list of nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are
available at: 
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/305-assessing-value-and-usage-of-scholar
ly-and-scientific-output.

 

On-site Attendance:  NFAIS members pay $435 and non-members pay $485.
Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and all-day beverages

 

Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385 and non-members pay $435.
Reduced virtual registration fees are available for groups of 6 or more
attendees (go to the registration site for more information: 
http://info.nfais.org/info/UsageNov10_RegVirtual.pdf).

 

For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director,
Communication and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); 
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/.

 

NFAIS:  Supporting the Global Information Community

 

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