Rebecca Kennison, Judy Ruttenberg, Yasmeen Shorish, and Liz Thompson This white paper and all supporting materials have been archived on LISSA (LIS Scholarly Archives). Supporting materials include data analysis and redacted transcripts of the focus groups. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services LG-73-18-0226-18. The views, findings,…
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Social Justice and the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Research Agenda
Rebecca Kennison This piece, researched and written by K|N’s Rebecca Kennison, appears as Appendix 1 in this larger work: Association of College and Research Libraries. Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications: Creating a More Inclusive Future. Prepared by Nancy Maron and Rebecca Kennison with Paul Bracke, Nathan Hall, Isaac Gilman, Kara Malenfant, Charlotte Roh, and Yasmeen…
Altmetrics in Humanities and Social Sciences
Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Rebecca Kennison 30 October 2017 INTRODUCTION The spread of open digital forms of scholarly communication, combined with increasing institutional pressure to track research “impact,” has encouraged scholars and administrators in the humanities and social sciences to turn their attention to metrics that promise to help in the assessment of research outputs. However,…
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