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Altmetric Webinar: Altmetrics for Books – Tracking Engagement and Driving Discovery
Today, technology allows a diverse range of audiences to engage and discuss scholarly books around the clock. In their latest webinar, Altmetric and a panel of experts hope to highlight how publishers and authors can become involved in this conversation and demonstrate the value of their publications by using metrics.
The aim of the discussion is to focus on the humanities and the social sciences, and with such an esteemed panel listeners from all academic backgrounds can hope to gain something from this webinar. Once the speakers have finished their presentations, the floor will be opened for a Q&A session.
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Mon, Jan 23, 2017 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM GMT
Speakers:
Amy Earhart, TAMU – Amy is Associate Professor of English and a researcher of Digital Humanities at TAMU. In this webinar she’ll be discussing the challenges she’s faced to get credit for her own outputs as an academic, and share her work to date on exploring the role that metrics have to play in improving this.
Jane Winters, School of Advanced Study, University of London – Professor of Digital Humanities, Jane Winters, will present her view on the current evaluation landscape, and focus in particular on what she has identified as the key opportunities and obstacles for growing the reach and visibility of monographs.
Charles Watkinson, Michigan Publishing – Charles will provide an overview of the steps that Michigan Publishing have taken to track and report the online conversations around published books and discuss how this aligns with their strategic goals as a University Press.