Library Workshop: “Tracking Academic Impact Using Alt-Metrics”

When: October 22, 1:00-2:00 PM

Where: 217 Perkins Library

Description: A workshop with Jason Priem (https://jasonpriem.org/), a doctoral student at UNC-SILS and pioneer of the idea of “altmetrics” (alternative ways of tracking the impact of scholarly work), on using total-impact and other tools to track the influence of one’s scholarly work. Participants will learn how to gather and track their own information from such sources as Google Scholar profile, Slideshare, and Github.

Co-Sponsored by Duke University Libraries & PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge

Attendance limited. Priority will be given to PhD Lab students and affiliated faculty. Register to attend: https://library.duke.edu/events/digital-scholarship/event.do?id=6409&occur=13873

Participants can prepare for this workshop by bringing a list of usernames and passwords for their online accounts which they would like to track (e.g., Google Scholar profile). Participants are encouraged to bring laptops to support hands-on use with total-impact. Library laptops can also be checked out for use with the workshop!

This Libraries-based series of workshops and presentations supports the goals of the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at the Franklin Humanities Institute. The PhD Lab provides an arena in which PhD students in humanities and interpretive social sciences can learn about new digital scholarship, engage with its challenges, and see its promise for their own research and professional lives within or outside the university. The PhD Lab seeks to balance the practical and the conceptual by allowing participants to prototype projects and receive peer feedback to enrich their understanding of the potential of digital scholarship. Duke University Libraries contributes to this work through programs that provide training in digital scholarship methods, conceptual engagement with the issues and opportunities afforded by new technologies, and opportunities for partnership around digital scholarship projects.

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