SPEC Kit 346: Scholarly Output Assessment Activities · 37
12. What resources do your library staff use for learning about and keeping abreast of the latest
trends in scholarly output assessment practices? Check all that apply. N=75
Conferences 72 96%
Webinars or continuing education classes (external) 68 91%
Blogs 66 88%
Email distribution lists or RSS feeds 66 88%
Professional associations or scholarly societies 64 85%
Websites of other libraries 61 81%
Journals or books 59 79%
Internal education for library staff 49 65%
Other resource 9 12%
Please briefly describe the other resource(s). N=9
External workshops, speaker programs and panels, demos, conversations and special library meetings,
library committees
Grey literature, twitter, vendors
Involvement with different research communities on campus and broadly
School of Information & Library Science faculty
Social media, twitter in particular
Twitter and other forms of social media
Unconference
Vendor propaganda emails
13. What new skills have library staff acquired in order to provide scholarly output assessment services,
if any? N=42
Altmetrics
Analysis skills for Altmetrics, Google Analytics, and Web of Science. Creating narratives based on these analyses that
demonstrate qualitative impact as well (such as prestigious blogs or persons citing scholarship).
Becoming more acquainted with social media outlets and online “publishing” tools that offer measures of “buzz”/
usage/views related to altmetrics
Content and teaching skills, scholarly communication skills, technology skills
Data analysis and reporting and promoting discipline specific scholarly output trends. Understanding of research metrics
tools, their limits and potential application.
