What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact

Margaret Heller

What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact

Margaret Heller

University Libraries

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Abstract

Librarians working in scholarly communications need to understand how to calculate and explain how including work in a repository affects its impact. This presentation describes the current state of research and practice into metrics for repositories including traditional metrics and newer alternative metrics, and some preliminary results of a research study assessing the usage and impact of a Digital Commons repository.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Jul 31 2014
Event	LITA Forum - Duration: Nov 7 2014 → …

Conference

Conference	LITA Forum
Period	11/7/14 → …

Keywords

institutional repositories
assessment
impact
social justice
mission

Disciplines

Library and Information Science
Scholarly Communication
Scholarly Publishing

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