Paper details
Article-level Usage Metrics for Online Repositories
Author
Jan Mach, Charles University in Prague - Faculty of Arts - Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship; The University of Economics - Library, Czech Republic
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Abstract
In recent years were introduced several projects trying to take advantage of existing metrics or find new metrics, to measure an impact of scientific publications published in Open Access mode, freely available on the Internet. Due to the nature of Open Access publishing of scientific information, the full text of work is not in a one single magazine nor available on one website, but the same document may be distributed on many websites at once. User decides how and where want to get information. This paper summarizes the most important projects measuring the impact of publishing on the Internet and presents projects whose aim is to collect, aggregate individual partial statistical data and to calculate summary indicators. Altmetrics appear as an interesting alternative to traditional citation metrics in the case of large Open Access repositories with significant results of research and development or in the case of publication of newspaper articles on current and new topics. Attractiveness of the document and its frequent sharing on social networks by readers is essential for suitability of use altmetrics. Author verified appropriateness of altmetrics on the example of PlumX statistics and the University of Pittsburgh repository. In conclusion, the author presents the project IRUS-UK, which collects baseline data from cooperating repositories and calulates the statistics corresponding to COUNTER standard. It provides comparable, authorized and standardized metrics for repositories in the UK. The author proposes a corresponding project for the Czech Republic.
Author's professional CV
Jan Mach works at the University of Economics, Prague in the Centre of Information and Library Services (CIKS VŠE), as a head of the Information Support of Study and Research Department. He is a representative of the CIKS VŠE in the Open Access Initiative in Czech Republic. In the years 2008 – 2010 he worked as Chairman of the Electronic Dissemination of Theses and Dissertations Working Group of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities. His scientific activities and publications are devoted to electronic theses and dissertations and other scientific outputs, their long-term preservation in Open Access repositories and related issues of plagiarism. He was involved in a number of projects, eg. establishment of the National Repository of Grey Literature (www.nusl.cz) or the National Registry of Theses & Dissertations and Plagiarism Detection System (Theses.cz).
