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Sibbald, Shannon L., Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, Marisa Surmacz, and C. Nadine Wathen. “Into the Gray: A
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Smith, Kylie M., Ellie Crookes, and Patrick A. Crookes. “Measuring Research ‘Impact’ for Academic
Promotion: Issues from the Literature.” Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 35, no. 4 (2013):
410–20. doi: 10.1080/1360080X.2013.812173.
Tananbaum, Greg. Article-Level Metrics: A SPARC Primer. April, 2013. Accessed December 29, 2014. http://
www.sparc.arl.org/sites/default/files/sparc-alm-primer.pdf.
Upton, Stevie, Paul Vallance, and John Goddard. “From Outcomes to Process: Evidence for a New Approach
to Research Impact Assessment.” Research Evaluation 23, no. 4 (2014): 352–65. doi: 10.1093/reseval/rvu021.
Urquhart, Christine, and Sara Dunn. “A Bibliometric Approach Demonstrates the Impact of a Social Care
Data Set on Research and Policy.” Health Information & Libraries Journal 30, no. 4 (2013): 294–302. doi:
10.1111/hir.12040.
Vaughan, K. T. L., Barrie E. Hayes, Rachel C. Lerner, Karen R. McElfresh, Laura Pavlech, David
Romito, Laurie H. Reeves, and Erin N. Morris. “Development of the Research Lifecycle Model
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Resources for Current Awareness
Associations
American Evaluation Association
http://www.eval.org/
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
http://www.niso.org/home/
Society for Scholarly Publishing
http://www.sspnet.org/
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
http://www.sparc.arl.org/
Blogs
Impact blog (London School of Economics and Political Science)
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
ImpactStory blog
http://blog.impactstory.org/