NISO Virtual Conference: Scholarly Communication Models: Evolution or Revolution?

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
11:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

About the Virtual Conference

Scholarly communication deals with the systems and processes involved in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Scholars can’t help but have to navigate the complex issues around author rights, access, costs, new models of publishing, peer-review, and compliance with research funder policies. These scholarly communication components are continually evolving along with changes in technical infrastructure, the economics of publishing, knowledge preservation, and social practice.

Learn how scholarly communication models are evolving from the authors’, publishers’, and libraries’ perspectives. The presenters would share and discuss their approach in adapting and navigating the issues surrounding this topic.

The Plum Analytics section of the agenda is:

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Use Modern Metrics to Tell the Stories of Your Research
Andrea Michalek, President & Co-Founder, Plum Analytics

The research and communication environment is changing. Specifically, the types of output that researchers are creating and the ways and methods others are interacting with that output are both changing rapidly. Luckily, technology has caught up so you can now discover and tell the stories of research. By finding, categorizing and analyzing modern metrics, you can understand the narrative, empower faculty through data and improve scholarly identity. In this talk you can see that you can move far beyond citations on articles to discover the scholarly conversation. For example, researchers are sharing their research in other ways. They are creating and sharing datasets, conference presentations, videos, books and many more. People are interacting with this by downloading and viewing it, bookmarking or “favoriting” it, writing blog posts or embedding it in Wikipedia articles, tweeting or “liking” it. All of this activity about all of this research output adds up to narratives that are out there to be discovered and shared. It is increasingly important for scholarly communication professionals to be able to tell the stories of the research of their early-career researchers, newly created research and everything else. This session will cover all of this and more.