MyRI: An bibliometrics toolkit – collaboration in research skills support
Ros Pan & Ellen Breen
The presentation – LILAC 2011
• Introductory points and slides – 15 mins
• Demonstration of the online tutorial, a major project deliverable – 15 mins
• Promotional video – 3 mins
• Questions
INTRODUCTORY SLIDES
Bibliometrics is..• Bibliometrics is one of various quantitative measures widely used to assess
research impact, based on analysis of publication and particularly citation counts
• Bibliometrics is being increasingly used at all levels: international and national benchmarking of universities and academic units within them; to assess particular research groups and their impact; and to assess individuals
• Some typical uses– a major element in world university rankings is based on citation impact– ranking of journals to decide where to publish– individuals including metrics in their CVs and grant applications.
• It is not a method that currently works well for research areas that are not based principally on journal articles as their channel of publication but is nevertheless applied widely and so it is crucial that all researchers are aware of the basics of bibliometrics and the full range of data sources, metrics and tools
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Bibliometrics skills are largely generic so lend themselves to collaboration
NDLR LInCS projects are collaborative – at least 3 partners required
Libraries moving into higher end researcher support and bibliometrics is one such area
B This new area of research skills support comes as library staffing and resourcing are declining – COLLABORATION is an obvious path to take
Various factors leading to the project
Academic libraries and units in partnership
Some project details• Project is funded by NDLR (broadly equivalent to JORUM) under Learning
Innovation Community Support Projects (LInCS) strand and we provide matching funding which is almost entirely from staff time.
• Well over 1,000 hours of staff time • 10k grant – software, professional design of branding, video production by
professional company, PR and launch items and promotion items, printing• UCD, DIT, NUIM and DCU are the partners, UCD is the lead partner• Original timeline was July – December 2010 but that was extended to end of
March 2011 – these things take a fair amount of time if not full time• We set out milestones and divided the work up into work packages each with a
leader who then formed up their own teams, brought in other staff as required and had local meetings – a lot of staff involved in the project overall
• We have managed the project with the Basecamp online environment and that has been overall a good thing – milestones set out, messages, writeboards, filestores etc
Basecamp - an online environment helps with 4 partners
Set up in dSpace and create web page front end
Ros Pan (project leader)
Branding
Mary Antonesa (Maynooth)
Upload all existing materials across partners to assess
Kathryn Smith (UCD)
Online tutorial development
Ellen Breen (DCU)
Workshop & presentation items
Ros Pan/Kathryn Smith (UCD)
Computer Science materials
Julia Barrett (UCD)
Work packages and leaders
Geography materials
May Antonesa/Ciaran Quinn (Maynooth)
Launch/PR/marketing
Ros Pan (project leader)
Shared production of materials for shared used • Open Access• Use a model which is– Granular i.e. in small units that you can put
together as you want to – Allow editing so you CAN add your own touches,
take out things you don’t have access to, customise the examples and so on
– RLO Reusable Learning Objects concept is very important
BibliometricsToolkit
Materials forworkshops & presentations
Lesson Plans
Online Tutorial
Lesson plansSuggestions on how to pick materials and pressent them for different time periods and topics.Includes powerpoint slides
Workshop and presentation materials70 items to pick and choose from
Worksheets, datasheets, posters, booklet, videos
Most can be edited to suit local needs
Creative Common license
Online tutorialOverviewJournal RankingPersonal bibliometrics
Articulate used to create this tutorial
Run HEAnet hosted version or download, customise and host locally
The Open Access bibliometrics toolkit
Online tutorial look and feel
The online tutorial
Complementary print materials
Video content
Exhibition posters
The MyRI webpage – the main access routewww.ndlr.ie/myri
dSpace presentation – the MyRI “Community”
The future
• User testing, feedback and adjustment• Marketing and advocacy campaign over time• Keep the material up to date – it is not task
and finish! As we now realise..• Extend the bibliometrics toolkit in various
directions – more subject tailored content• Build on a collaborative approach to academic
library information skills work in general, beyond this project - deliverables
Developing the Online Tutorial
•Development Team
•Software Platform
•Content Development
•Video Interviews
•Draft Build, Review
•Final Version
Software Platform?
•Web-based…..use existing template?
•Articulate Studio•Easy to use•Can create visually engaging content and interactions•Training available
Content Development
Video Interviews• Employed graduate
students• 6 interviewees• 4 main interviews
covered 3 questions• 3.5 hours edited down
to 11 short videos
Draft Build and Review• MyRI Team Review• User review– Minor amendments
(typos, links etc)– Some suggestions not
possible e.g. link between modules
– User feedback very positive
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO - 3 MINShttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkx3qAmutDs
Final points• There is a workshop built around this set of materials– Exploring the extent of current re-use– Discussing the challenges of re-purposing Open
Access information skills learning objects– Build various lessons out of the MyRI materials– Wednesday, 2.20, Alumni Theatre at LSE
• We are sponsors of pre-conference dinner drinks – samples and freebies will be available then – Tuesday evening
• QUESTIONS….