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Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academic
Facet Publishing has released Altmetrics: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics, edited by Andy Tattersall. This book aims to bring together experts in their fields to guide readers through the practical and technical aspects of altmetrics.
Altmetrics focuses on research artefact level metrics that are not exclusive to traditional journal papers, but also extend to book chapters, posters and data sets, among other items. It offers additional indicators of attention, review
and impact that add highly responsive layers to the slower to accrue traditional research metrics.
Contributed to by leading atmetric innovators, including Euan Adie, founder and CEO of
Altmetric.com; William Gunn, head of academic outreach at Mendeley; and Ben Showers, author of the bestselling
Library Analytics and Metrics, the book details the methods that can be employed to reach different audiences, even with only minimal resources.
The book explains the theory behind altmetrics and provides practical advice to using the increasing number of tools available for librarians and researchers to measure, share, connect and communicate research including Academia. edu, Facebook, Mendeley, ResearchGate, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Figshare,
Altmetric.com, SlideShare
Kudos and many more. Anyone wanting to understand altmetrics
– and encourage others to use it – will find this book essential reading, including library and information professionals working in higher education, researchers, academics and higher education leaders and strategists.
www.facetpublishing.co.uk
Brill Research Perspectives
Brill has launched Brill Research Perspectives, a new collection of review journals in international law, the humanities, and social sciences. Brill Research Perspectives aims to provide an in-depth introduction to key research areas in International Law, the Humanities, and Social Sciences. Written by top authors in the field, they combine the verification of peer review, high usage of reference works and the pedagogy of textbooks.
Researchers can use Brill Research Perspectives to acquaint themselves quickly with an unfamiliar area without having to sift through a large number of sources.
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The modular nature of Brill Research Perspectives allows university educators to use these publications for graduate teaching purposes, especially in areas where there is a lack of textbooks.
Each issue of a journal published under the Brill Research Perspectives umbrella contains a single, in-depth article of 50 to 100 pages. Articles are published in real time and authors have the opportunity to make periodic updates. The bibliography of the online article is linked to internal and external sources. The journals are available online on http://booksandjournals.
brillonline.com, and in print.
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Horticultural Science
Badges for books PSI – an organisation that helps publishers eliminate subscription fraud and IP misuse – has announced the launch of a global registry of IP addresses.
On average, 58 per cent of IP ranges held by publishers are inaccurate, PSI has found. Because of this, a significant amount of content is open to unlicensed access, and libraries and publishers are likely to receive inaccurate usage statistics. Until now, the systems for keeping the IP ranges accurate and up to date have been cumbersome, time-consuming and inefficient for everyone involved.
The IP Registry will make it easier for libraries to communicate any changes in their authentication details to all publishers who sign up to use the service, saving them significant time and reducing errors. The registry already contains 1.5 billion validated IP addresses for more than 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide.
Andrew Pitts, managing director of PSI, said: ‘We are the experts in this field as we have been working for more than 10 years with leading publishers to identify IP misuse and abuse, cleaning up their authentication databases as we go along.
‘As a result, we have a database of clean and accurate IP details for institutions all over the world. Given that IP addresses are still the major method of authentication within in our community, we know that this service will benefit publishers and their customers enormously.’
www.theipregistry.org
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