38  ·  Survey Results:  Survey Questions and Responses
Developing familiarity with author disambiguation, citation metrics for individuals, departments, and schools, tracking
altmetrics developments, participating in development and review of institutional-level metrics including comparisons of
major software packages like SciVal & InCites.
Digital humanities and data management related skills
Discovering and evaluating available metric and altmetric tools and making relevant information available to the
university research community.
Familiarity with tools such as InCites, Web of Science, and altmetrics
Formal training on impact tools, visualization tools, and study of the Becker model
Given the ad hoc nature of our current level of support, most staff rely on individuals with more knowledge and
experience when assisting patrons with these services.
I’m sure individual librarians have learned new skills, but since it’s done in response to questions, I’m not sure what
those are. It will be different for each librarian.
In the past year, we have developed expertise in Neo4j, a graph database, with which we are looking for patterns of
collaboration in our IR data.
Increasing awareness of article-level metrics
Intensive introduction course about bibliometrics offered by scientometrics professor
Just starting to learn about resources like Plum Analytics, InCites, bepress readership stats, Google Scholar Profile
citation stats.
Knowledge of alternative metrics, how altmetric.com works, altmetric-it plug in, learning new resources and ways to
communicate the impact
Knowledge of available tools and capabilities of tools, familiarity with the needs of users, methods of using or searching
within the tools
Knowledge of new/developing tools, how to calculate h-index and other measures
Knowledge of ORCID, ImpactStory, Altmetrics, etc.
Learning about the variety of sources, pros and cons of each, caveats, and how to interpret them.
Librarians have learned to use various tools in order to demonstrate them.
Library staff have been developing and/or honing skills in utilizing tools for scholarly output assessment, and in training
faculty how to use these tools for their own use.
Library staff learned to keep abreast of trends and use new tools.
None.
One librarian attended the European Summer School of Scientometrics in July 2014 and is using a train-the-trainer
approach to develop programming for the rest of the staff.
One skill is having to spend time learning the new tools that are entering the market. The second skill is saying vigilant
on top of new trends.