Session Theme “Altmetrics"

 

World Library and Information Congress

 

83rd IFLA General Congress and Assembly 19-26 August 2017, Wroclaw, Poland

 

The Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) invites colleagues to submit proposals for its two-hour open session at the IFLA Congress in Wroclaw on the theme “Altmetrics: It’s time to take action."

 

 Altmetrics measure attention to research outputs in non-traditional sources and are indicators of research impact. They provide us with a more complete understanding of how research is being received and used within a short time after publication and are complementary to traditional citation metrics. There are many uses for altmetrics including adding value to institutional repositories, showcasing outputs and achievements, demonstrating impacts, aiding in discovery, demonstrating value and supporting causes. It is time for libraries to take action and include support for altmetrics as well as traditional metrics in their service offerings. This programme will examine how altmetrics are used in libraries and why they are important when working with scholarly communication, serials and other continuing resources issues. We will examine the present and future potential impacts and uses of altmetrics and other metrics.

 

We invite papers that address any or several of the following topics:

Altmetrics and their relationship to other metrics

Metrics projects and implementation in libraries

Altmetrics and serials and other continuing resources

The meaning of metrics

Metrics and repositories

The uses of metrics

Altmetrics standards and best practices

Metrics for discovery

Libraries supporting metrics uses 

 

Proposals must include the following information:

 

  1.  Name and institution of speaker(s)

  2.  Contact information for speaker(s)

  3.  Brief biographical information

  4.  Proposal title

  5.  Brief (250 word) abstract of the proposed paper

  6.  Language of presentation

 

Important dates

Proposal submission deadline:  Friday 17th February 2017

Notification of acceptance:  Friday 17th March 2017

Submission of completed paper:  26th May 2017

 

Proposals should be sent by email to Meg Mering, Secretary of the SOCR Standing Committee mmering1@unl.edu by Friday 17th February 2017. Finalists will be notified by March 17th, 2017, and will be expected to submit final versions of their papers in one of the official IFLA languages by May 26th, 2017.

 

For more information, please contact Meg Mering, Secretary of Serials and other Continuing Resources Section, mmering1@unl.edu or Sharon Dyas-Correia, Chair of the Committee, s.dyas.correia@utoronto.ca.

 

Please also note that in accordance with IFLA’s Open Access Statement, all papers that are presented at the WLIC 2017 should be available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

 

Note:  All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors, if required. The Wroclaw National Committee and IFLA have worked hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information will be available on the Conference Participation Grants webpage.

 

Sharon Dyas-Correia

Chair, IFLA SOCRS

 

Meg Mering

Secretary, IFLA SOCRS