Altmetrics in Practice: A Case Study
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This is a guest post contributed by Hui Zhang, Assistant Professor and Digital Application Librarian at Oregon State University Libraries. Hui discusses their experience of adding altmetrics into their Institutional Repository system. Altmetrics at Oregon State The concept of altmetrics is already well known in libraries, and as more institutional repositories and publishers offer altmetrics to their scholarly content, more researchers are also becoming familiar with them. However, the controversy over how altmetrics should be used continues to be intensified rather than diminished: one opinion holds that the suites of impact-related indicators called altmetrics should be included in the package for scholarly impacts … Read More