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<p class=MsoBodyText><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Discount
Registration Ends Friday, October 22<sup>nd</sup> for the NFAIS Workshop on <i>Assessing
the Usage and Value of Scholarly and Scientific Output: An Overview of
Traditional and Emerging Metrics</i> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Early
Bird onsite and virtual registration for the NFAIS one-day workshop, <i>Assessing
the Usage and Value of Scholarly and Scientific Output: An Overview of
Traditional and Emerging Metrics,</i> ends this week on Friday, October 22<sup>rd</sup>.
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<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This
meeting will take place on November 10, 2010 when 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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 <span
style='background:white'>Ashlea</span> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In
closing, both a librarian, Joseph Zucca<i>, </i>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.</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The program,
registration forms, directions to the meeting location, list of nearby hotels,
and general information on Philadelphia are available at: <a
href="http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/305-assessing-value-and-usage-of-scholarly-and-scientific-output">http://nfais.brightegg.com/page/305-assessing-value-and-usage-of-scholarly-and-scientific-output</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On-site
Attendance:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> on or
before October, 22, 2010, NFAIS members pay $385 and non-members pay $435
(registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, and all-day
beverages). After October 22nd, NFAIS members pay $435 and non-members pay
$485. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Virtual
Attendance: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>on or
before October 22, 2010, NFAIS members pay $335 and non-members pay $385. After
October 22nd, NFAIS members pay $385 and non-members pay $435. Reduced virtual
registrations are available for groups of 6 or more attendees (go to the
registration site for more information:<a
href="http://info.nfais.org/info/UsageNov10_RegVirtual.pdf">http://info.nfais.org/info/UsageNov10_RegVirtual.pdf</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more
information contact: Jill O’Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication
and Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax); <a
href="mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org">mailto:jilloneill@nfais.org</a> or go to <a
href="http://www.nfais.org/">http://www.nfais.org/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFAIS: Supporting the Global
Information Community<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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