Kellie Kaneshiro, AMLS, AHIP and Elaine Skopelja, MALS, AHIP – Ruth Lilly Medical Library

Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis Indiana

Exploring the Sea of Social Media: Professional Networking and Altmetrics

ABSTRACT

Poster Bibliography

Personal Information Management

The goal was to create a personalized information management strategy involving exploration of social networking tools for scientists and librarians, build a community around professional interests, and refine and curate the information and the information flow.

This poster will explore issues and benefits of "putting it all together” and will touch upon professional networking on: LinkedIn, Mendeley, and Google Scholar Citations, charting the altmetrics, and keeping up using RSS feeds with Feedly and MS Outlook. Keeping track of multiple social media outlets (Twitter, Facebook) through one interface will be explored..

What is personal information management?

“Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to both the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain and retrieve information for everyday use.”1

Social Networking for Scientists

•Establish a scholarly profile to highlight your research•Provide a level of author disambiguation•Provide article and author level metrics as a measure of impact•Find others with similar research interests

We looked at:

Social Networking Tools for Scientists Putting It All Together?

Conclusions

Putting it all together in one place, accessible from anywhere, is it even possible?

What’s your personal information management strategy?

LinkedInTM

• Find colleagues with similar interests (industry, company)

• Establish or join communities

• Your professional rolodex

• Networking for employment opportunities

Professional Networking

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Altmetrics

Mendeley

ResearcherID, Scopus Author ID & ORCID: provide unique identifiers for each author. ORCID cross links with ResearcherID and Scopus.

ResearcherID: Thompson Reuters introduced ResearcherID in 2008. A researcher must opt-in and create a profile. A search on “librar*” resulted in 289 researchers. Citation metrics generated if your publications are in Science Citation Index.

Scopus Author ID: Scopus (Elsevier) creates an Author ID and profile for an author. Little control over your author profile. Citation metrics generated from Scopus database. Profile corrections need to be sent to Scopus.

ORCID: 306,370 live ORCID IDs (9/29/13 @ 6:50pm). ORCID is an open community, not-for-profit organization. A search for researchers using the term “library” resulted in hits – but ORCID did not provide the # of hits.

Google Scholar Citations: A search on the word “library” resulted in some nice profiles and photos – but Google Scholar did not provide the # of hits.

Mendeley: 2,553,415 members (9/29/13 @ 8:12pm) Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early 2013. Search by member name, look for interest groups, or browse by broad subject area. Mendeley is a reference manager, PDF organizer, annotate your PDFs, collaborate with colleagues, network & discover people, groups & papers.

Other Examples: Zotero, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Microsoft Academic Search, VIVO

ResearcherID

DefinitionUsing “alternative” metrics to measure the impact of researchers’ work as opposed to merely counting citations.

What Is Included in AltmetricsPublished Research Articles: Track not only citations but social media mentions and the number of downloads and online views. Unpublished Articles, Other Digital Scholarship: Track blog posts, view datasets, download slides, analyze digital repository use.

Advantages over Current Models of Measuring ImpactSpeed—Altmetric methods compile indicators much faster than waiting for research to be citedDiversity of users—more than just academiaReveals the breadth of researcher’s work

1. Jones, W. (2008) Keeping Found Things Found. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufman Publishers.

2. Priem, J., Taraborelli, D, Groth, P., Neylon, C. Altmetrics: a Manifesto http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/ Accessed: May 30, 2013/

3. Bernstein, M., Van Kleek, M, Karger, D. et. al. (2008) Information scraps How and why information eludes our personal information management tools. ACM Trans Information Syst. 26(4): Article 24.

4. Bik HM, Goldstein MC (2013) An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists. PLoS Biol 11(4): e1001535. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001535

5. Cathy C. Sarli and Kristi L. Holmes. The Becker Model. Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine . https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment

6. Howard J. (2013) Rise of ‘altmetrics’ revives questions about how to measure impact of research. Chronicle of Higher Education 59(38):A6-A7.

7. Bassett D. (2013) LinkedIn as a current awareness tool. Feliciter 59(2):14-17.

8. Lapinski S, Piwowar H, Priem J. (2013) Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave. College & Research Library News 74(6): 292-294,300.

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Categories of information:

• Information about me –professional / personal• Information for me – professional / personal• Information that I keep for others – professional / personal

Or will there always be “information scraps” - Information that eludes personal information managers? 3

Not everything is available as an RSS feed

Not everything is accessible on my mobile device…yet?

RSS on MS OutlookFeedly Personal Website @ Google Sites

Who Tweets?• Your colleagues• Your Institution• News Media• MidwestMLA2013

@MidwestMLA2013• WHO @WHO• *NLM @nlm_news• *CDC @CDCgov• *NIH @NIH

*affected by US Government shutdown

• Associations• Organizations• @Altmetric

• @DailyInfographic

• @TED_TALKS• @NPRHealth• @libsthriving• @lifehacker• @iMedicalApps.com

Twitter

Social networks that allow scientists and scholars to create profiles, generate author and citation metrics, and find others with similar research interests are still relatively new and not yet fully developed and tested. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is promising as a means of establishing a unique and persistent digital identifier. Researchers can readily establish a Google Scholar Citations profile (with a Gmail account). PLoS Biology has published a social media guide for scientists.4

Scientists and scholars may have already established a professional profile on mainstream social media sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter. One advantage these sites offer is a wider potential audience.

Altmetrics are slowly gaining acceptance in academia as a means of measuringthe impact of one’s research. Sarli and Holmes have developed a highly useful and well written guide to measuring the impact of biomedical research.5

A cloud based application that provides organizational access to everything (Twitter, LinkedIn, links, documents, calendar, notes, RSS) remains to be found. One of the authors is looking at ToodleDo and Evernote as possibilities.

Refining and curating the information stream remains a challenge due to the volume of information available from multiple sources. The best curation device is the selectivity and focus provided by:

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