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Research Gate
Research Gate, HeinOnline author profiles, SSRN author profiles, MathSciNet
Research in View (training and support provided by the university’s Office of Distance Education and eLearning.
Scholarometer
SciFinder
The university faculty survey, ORCID, Mendeley, Figshare (data)
We recommend the use of ORCID, Figshare, Research Gate, Academia.edu, Microsoft academic search profiles
(particularly for visualizations).
If you selected “Other software/For library staff internal use only” above, please identify the
software. N=3
Google Scholar, VIVO, and Web of Science are for library staff internal use at Law. University Library has access to
Libanalytics, uses it for internal purposes unrelated to this survey’s questions.
Tableau (Form wouldn’t allow me to select Other for recommends and internal use but that’s what I needed to do.)
We also have library staff only software created in-house by our system called California Digital Library Weighted Value.
Wordle use is widespread in the library, although I don’t believe the library specifically offers it to users.
If you selected “Other software/Library is considering acquiring or using” above, please identify
the software. N=4
Biomed Central
Converis, Research Gate, Data 180, Elsevier
Dataverse which provides view/download counts for data publications.
We are interested in VIVO as a tool for exploring faculty patterns of collaboration around campus and across
universities. We are hoping to integrate some form of altmetrics into our institutional repository, hence our interest in
Altmetric.com.
Additional Comments N=4
Eigenfactor.org
I have answered all questions as if the question reads “are used by *university* staff“ as many of these services are
used by colleges and academic units, not the library. Additional notes: the provost’s office uses Academic Analytics for
program review. A few colleges on campus utilize Digital Measures Activity Insights for activity reporting. Library staff is
not involved with these projects, and assessment is generally considered an academic issue on the campus, the purview
of departments, colleges, and the Office of the Provost. However, the library is taking a leading role, with financial
support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, for the implementation of the Elsevier Pure Researcher