[nfais-l] Tinal Reminder: NFAIS Workshop on Metrics

[Bonnie Lawlor]

FINAL Reminder:  NFAIS Workshop on Assessing the Usage and Value of
Scholarly and Scientific Output: An Overview of Traditional and Emerging
Metrics Scheduled for Next Week

 

The NFAIS one-day workshop, Assessing the Usage and Value of Scholarly and
Scientific Output: An Overview of Traditional and Emerging Metrics will take
place on November 10, 2010. Experts from around the globe will gather in
Philadelphia, PA to discuss the new methods that are becoming increasingly
important for measuring the usage and value of scholarly and scientific
content, including large scientific data sets, and how those measures
complement the more traditional, well-known approaches. Registrations for
virtual and onsite attendance are still available. The cut-off for all
registrations is noon on Tuesday, November 9th.

 

The meeting will open with Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist, EBSCO Information
Services, providing a look at what's new with Project COUNTER and SUSHI.  He
will be followed by Ross MacIntyre, Senior Manager, Mimas, University of
Manchester, UK, who will describe a relatively new initiative, PIRUS 2,that
takes COUNTER statistics down to the article level. Todd Carpenter,
Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), will
provide an update on Project MESUR, and Dr. Robert D. Chen,
Secretary-General, CODATA and Director, CIESIN, Columbia University and Dr.
Robert Downs, Senior Digital Archivist, CIESIN, Columbia University, will
describe the challenges of accessing, preserving, and citing large datasets.

 

Dr. Jevin West, University of Washington, will open the afternoon session
with a discussion of the Eigenfactor, an alternative/complement to the more
widely-known journal impact factor.  He will be followed Ashlea Higgs,
Elsevier, who will talk about a new indicator of journal citation impact,
denoted as source normalized impact per paper (SNIP). Dr. Peter Binfield,
Public Library of Science, will describe the article level metrics that are
currently offered by PLoS, and Jeff Dougherty, Thomson Reuters Healthcare &
Science, will talk about the traditional and proven citation approach to
measuring usage and value with a look at citation indexes, journal metrics
and the impact factor.

 

In closing, both a librarian, Joseph Zucca, Director of Planning and
Communication, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and a publisher,
Jonathan Morgan, Assistant Director, Web Strategy and Innovation, American
Chemical Society, will discuss the metrics that they use to measure value
and usage and how they apply those metrics to key decisions within their
organizations.

 

The program, registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of
nearby hotels, and general information on Philadelphia are available at:
http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/305-assessing-value-and-usage-of-scholarly-a
nd-scientific-output.

 

On-site Attendance:  NFAIS members pay $435 and non-members pay $485.
Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and all-day beverages

 

Virtual Attendance:, NFAIS members pay $385 and non-members pay $435.
Reduced virtual registration fees are available for groups of 6 or more
attendees (go to the registration site for more information:
http://info.nfais.org/info/UsageNov10_RegVirtual.pdf).

 

For more information contact:  Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax);
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/.

 

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